Qureos Mentor

Entergy

<div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Job Title: </b>Engineer I, II, III, Sr (Trans)</div>
<div><b>Work Place Flexibility:</b> Onsite</div>
<div><b>Legal Entity: </b>Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD)</div><br>
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JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:</div><br>
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Provide technical reviews of work documents, strategies, and plans around the construction or maintenance phase as part of implementing the risk assessment process for all aspects of transmission work which could impact critical customers; Nuclear fleet, Industrial Customers, and other strategic customers. The primary</div>
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focus of the risk assessment processes is identification of risk and ensuring eliminating or mitigating practices are implemented as applicable.</div><br>
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JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:</div><br>
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Implements risk control processes throughout transmission by providing input and direction to other groups on the interpretation of the process and procedure for all aspects of the Capital and O&amp;M portfolio which could impact nuclear, industrial customers and other strategic customers. Implementation also involves fulfilling the following:</div>
<ul>
<div><ul><li>Provide/develop technical reviews of work strategies and documents pertaining to execution of work tasks being performed by all organizations within transmission.</li>
<li>Review documents developed to execute protection and control projects and/or maintenance tasks for accuracy pertaining to existing protection schemes and relay prints.</li>
<li>Review outage durations to ensure they are appropriate and that no additional opportunities exist to shorten based on scope of work.</li>
<li>Review construction strategy to best reduce outage exposure and identify alternative construction practices that may reduce this exposure.</li>
<li>Identify risk by reviewing drawings and supporting documents associated with the work planned to take place and ways to manage, mitigate, or eliminate risk while identifying potential work bundling opportunities</li>
<li>Identifying mitigations that may include reviewing work instructions, isolations, station onelines, and by-pass options.</li>
<li>Serve as a primary contact for questions related to completing risk assessments while working in a team environment evaluating the reliability risk associated with activities in one or more of the following key areas; relay protection schemes, operations and planning, substation and transmission line practices</li>
<li>Lead, participate and/or develop procedures, metrics and training materials supporting implementation of risk processes across all of Transmission assets, as well as challenge transmission organizations, including Grid and Capital Projects, to apply consistent risk control process. These organizations will be challenged by asking them project specific questions pertaining to the above mitigations as necessary.</li>
<li>Lead critical evolution meetings with all necessary stakeholders centered on the risk profile of the tasks and projects being evaluated</li>
<li>Provide input to design engineers, construction engineers, planning, and project managers on ways to reduce the reliability risk while developing their project scope of work.</li>
<li>This input will consist of identifying when long duration outages add exposure to critical customers and when design engineers and construction engineers will need to develop alternative construction strategies.</li>
<li>Actively participate in project team meetings to discuss risk profiles in early development stages of proposed projects</li></ul></div><br>
</ul>
<div></div><div><b>Primary Location:</b> Louisiana-Baton Rouge Louisiana : Baton Rouge<br>
<b>Job Function</b>: Professional<br>
<b>FLSA Status</b>: Professional<br>
<b>Relocation Option:</b> No Relocation Offered<br>
<b>Union description/code</b>: NON BARGAINING UNIT<br>
<b>Number of Openings</b>: 1<br>
<b>Req ID:</b> 121880<br>
<b>Travel Percentage</b>:Up to 25%</div>
<div>An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to navigate to EEO page, or see statements below.</div>
<div><b>EEO Statement: </b>The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.<br>
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The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.</div>
<div><b>Accessibility: </b>Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click <b>here</b> and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.</div>
<div><b>Additional Responsibilities:</b> As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.</div>
<div> <b>Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal</b></div>
<div>The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.</div>
<div><b>EEI Testing:</b></div>
<div>One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test. The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and <b>Pre-employment Testing:</b> of questions. Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, numberLogon ID: entergy, password: practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.</div>
<div>In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.</div>
<div><b>WORKING CONDITIONS:
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As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.</div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>

Engineer I, II, III, Sr (Trans)

<div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Job Title: </b>Procurement Specialist</div>
<div><b>Work Place Flexibility:</b> Hybrid</div>
<div><b>Legal Entity:</b> Entergy Services, LLC</div><br>
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<div><b>Please note: </b>Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.</div><br>
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Note: This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 3 days a week of in office work, and based out of the Arkansas Nuclear One generating station in Russellville, AR. Those outside the area will need to relocate for this role; relocation assistance is not available for this posting. This position may be filled as a Site Procurement Specialist I, II, III, or Senior, depending on qualifications.</b></div><br>
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<div><b>JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:</b></div>
<div>The Supply Chain organizational model for embedding procurement specialists at a site(s) varies from business unit to business unit (e.g., Nuclear to Power Generation). The foundational Supply Chain knowledge and skills required for the position are the same regardless of business unit affiliation. The primary difference in the procurement specialist role between business units&rsquo; site(s) is the additional level of operating processes, practices, standards and procedures required at nuclear sites. The Site Procurement Specialist utilizes and applies basic contracting and purchasing knowledge and experience to acquire services and materials across a business site(s). The role is the responsible Supply Chain single point of contact at the site(s) for some business customers. The specialist ensures all site(s) procurement activities are coordinated with other Supply Chain departments to generate maximum value and efficiency for Entergy. The key Supply Chain interfaces for this role are Category Management, Central Procurement Group, Central Contracting Group, Procurement Engineering, Supplier Diversity, warehousing and inventory management, and Capital Projects and Decommissioning. Other key functional interfaces for this position are Tax, Finance, Risk Management, Safety, Human Resources, Legal, and external suppliers. The key stakeholder also interfaces for the procurement specialist role within nuclear are Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Projects and Production. The specialist plans and executes simple to moderately complex scopes of work required to source services and materials through understanding market pricing conditions, executing contracting strategies, managing the RFx processes, supporting supplier negotiations, and providing supplier management support for claims, invoice resolution, etc. The specialist will have a basic understanding of how the site(s) optimally places its demand plan into the relevant marketplace and/or by collaborating with other SC departments, such as Central Procurement Group, Category Management, warehousing and inventory management. The specialist operates with some supervision, depending on the complexity of each assignment, to ensure work inputs and outputs are completed on schedule and all processes and procedures are thoroughly executed. These duties shall be performed in a manner that ensures services and materials are obtained in the most cost effective, efficient, and strategic method with strict adherence to Entergy&rsquo;s policies, procedures, and core values.</div><br>
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<div><b>JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:</b></div>
<ul><li><b>Safety/Human Performance:</b>
<ul><li>Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first.</li>
<li>Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors.</li>
<li>Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Incident Response:</b>
<ul><li>Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System and/or the nuclear Emergency Response Organization.</li>
<li>Perform Nuclear Supply Chain Duty on Call.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Work Processes:</b>
<ul><li>Conduct business site(s) needs assessments to determine customer requirements; attend site (s) weekly plant lead team meetings where appropriate.</li>
<li>Perform insightful market and financial analyses to determine potential business risk associated with a supplier or contract; coordinate with Credit Risk as required.</li>
<li>Apply the principles and practices of commercial management (plan, strategize, source and perform).</li>
<li>Pre-award contract development and post-award contract administration; create and lead the RFx bid process; develop negotiation strategies, optimal pricing methodology, establish KPIs.</li>
<li>Process materials&rsquo; RFQs. Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure all specifications, material descriptions, schedule requirements, and quality and quantity requirements are clearly defined and accurate.</li>
<li>Create Purchase Orders for execution and issuance, tracking of order status, and expediting when required.</li>
<li>Identify and evaluate new and current sources of supply, including small, local and diverse suppliers, to ensure the most competitive and advantageous offering to Entergy.</li>
<li>Resolve invoice mismatches for Over, Short, Damaged, or Discrepant issues, etc.</li>
<li>Work with Legal and Tax to ensure deviations from standard contract/purchase order language are within Entergy&rsquo;s legal and risk tolerance levels and are approved and documented.</li>
<li>Ensure Nuclear Safety Related suppliers are active and approved for use for the requested materials on the Quality Supplier List.</li>
<li>Ensure requested material has been reviewed by the appropriate Engineering personnel to ensure purchases will meet all applicable site and regulatory requirements.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Value Creation:</b>
<ul><li>Deliver and document savings through competitive bidding, direct negotiations, cost avoidance, etc.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Process and Reporting Compliance:</b>
<ul><li>Ensure all requirements for savings, diversity, document retention, bidding, contractor safety and other areas of compliance are met.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Partnership/Relationships:</b>
<ul><li>Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders to ensure Supply Chain is addressing contractual needs pro-actively and in the most beneficial way for Entergy.</li>
<li>Work with stakeholders to analyze and develop company position on claims and disputes.</li>
<li>Establish/maintain relationships with suppliers/partners, based on the ethical business practices as set forth in the Standards of Conduct and Integrity and Entergy's Supply Chain polices.</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Communications:</b>
<ul><li>Act as a central point of contact with stakeholders and suppliers</li>
<li>Maintain open communications between suppliers, stakeholders and within SC to ensure that prompt, thorough, accurate, pertinent and complete information is provided</li><br>
</ul></li></ul><div></div><div><b>MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS</b></div>
<div><b>Minimum education and experience required of the position</b></div>
<ul><li><b>Site Procurement Specialist I</b>: Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, business, accounting, engineering, or other related discipline OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 4+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience. <b>Any graduating Senior (through the Summer 2025 term) will be considered for this posting.</b></li>
</ul><ul><li><b>Site Procurement Specialist II</b>:
<ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, Business, Accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 2+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 6+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience</li>
<li>Minimum 1+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Site Procurement Specialist III</b>:
<ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, business, accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 5+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 8+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience</li>
<li>Minimum 2+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred</li>
</ul></li><li><b>Site Procurement Specialist Sr.</b>:
<ul><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, Business, Accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 9+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 13+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience</li>
<li>Minimum 3+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred</li><br>
</ul></li></ul><div></div><div><b>Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position</b></div>
<div><b>Technical</b></div>
<ul><li>Understanding of business and Supply Chain operations within Entergy; including how enterprise organizations buy and pay.</li>
<li>Basic application of demand planning across site(s); understanding of how to interface with other SC departments to fulfil demand requirements.</li>
<li>Basic application of commercial management processes (plan, strategy, source and perform), including supplier diversity, safety metrics and tools.</li>
<li>Basic understanding of how to build contract strategies, based on business site(s) objectives.</li>
<li>Ability to perform buying actions for purchase orders; understanding of the alternate buying channels and the utilization of central resources to fulfil orders.</li>
<li>Basic understanding in creating and applying negotiation strategies and supporting negotiations for commercial contracts, services or materials.</li>
<li>Basic application of pre-award and post-award contract management processes; including supplier performance management.</li>
<li>Basic application of the materials purchasing requirements, guidelines and procedures across the enterprise fleet (Nuclear, Power Gen., etc.).</li>
<li>Basic application of the end-to-end purchasing and contracting processes.</li>
<li>Ability to resolve simple to moderately complex invoice exceptions for purchase orders placed.</li>
<li>Basic practice in computer applications and source-to-settlement electronic platform/system to complete purchasing activities.</li>
<li>Basic understanding of relationship management between clients, other supply chain specialists, vendors and other third parties for services or materials.</li>
<li>Basic application of document management and control standards; including management and maintenance of filing systems (hard copy and electronic).</li>
<li>Basic understanding and practice in working across categories; knows when to liaise with other Supply Chain departments.</li>
<li>Basic knowledge and understanding of warehouse practices to include receiving, issuing and UTC assignment.</li>
<li>Basic knowledge and understanding of documents, drawings, technical specifications associated with material procurements.</li>
<li>Basic knowledge and understanding of the Corrective Action Process. (Nuclear)</li>
<li>Basic knowledge and understanding of the Procurement Engineering and commercial dedication process (Nuclear)</li>
</ul>
<div><b>Professional</b></div>
<ul><li>Ability to apply basic project management principles to ensure systematic and thorough completion of each assignment.</li>
<li>Ability to apply commercial skills and financial acumen to each assignment.</li>
<li>Basic application of analytical skills to understand the limitations of data, use appropriate techniques to cleanse and enrich the data; use analytical techniques to produce outputs which assist in business decision making.</li>
<li>Strong communications skills to utilize the appropriate method of communication, with internal and external stakeholders.</li>
<li>Ability to apply effective stakeholder resolution techniques to resolve conflicts while maintaining positive relationships.</li>
<li>Basic understanding to build strong relationships and effective networks with internal and external stakeholders; including suppliers.</li></ul><br>
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</div><div><b>Minimum licenses and/or certifications required of the position</b></div>
<div><b>Preferred: </b>Suppy Chain certification from an industry accreditation organization such as<b> CPSM</b>, APICS, etc.</div><br>
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Primary Location:</b> Arkansas-Russellville Arkansas : Russellville<br>
<b>Job Function</b>: Professional<br>
<b>FLSA Status</b>: Professional<br>
<b>Relocation Option:</b> No Relocation Offered<br>
<b>Union description/code</b>: NON BARGAINING UNIT<br>
<b>Number of Openings</b>: 1<br>
<b>Req ID:</b> 121745<br>
<b>Travel Percentage</b>:Up to 25%</div>
<div>An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.</div>
<div><b>EEO Statement: </b>The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.<br>
<br>
The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.</div>
<div><b>Accessibility: </b>Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click <b>here</b> and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.</div>
<div><b>Additional Responsibilities:</b> As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.</div>
<div><b>Equal Opportunity</b></div>
<div>The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.</div>
<div><b>WORKING CONDITIONS:
</b><br>
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.</div>
<div><b>Please note: </b>Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.</div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>

Procurement Specialist

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  Job Title:
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 Procurement Specialist
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  Work Place Flexibility:
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 Hybrid
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  Legal Entity:
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 Entergy Services, LLC
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  Please note:
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 Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.
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  Note: This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 3 days a week of in office work, and based out of the Arkansas Nuclear One generating station in Russellville, AR. Those outside the area will need to relocate for this role; relocation assistance is not available for this posting. This position may be filled as a Site Procurement Specialist I, II, III, or Senior, depending on qualifications.
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  Job Summary/Purpose
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 The Supply Chain organizational model for embedding procurement specialists at a site(s) varies from business unit to business unit (e.g., Nuclear to Power Generation). The foundational Supply Chain knowledge and skills required for the position are the same regardless of business unit affiliation. The primary difference in the procurement specialist role between business units&rsquo; site(s) is the additional level of operating processes, practices, standards and procedures required at nuclear sites. The Site Procurement Specialist utilizes and applies basic contracting and purchasing knowledge and experience to acquire services and materials across a business site(s). The role is the responsible Supply Chain single point of contact at the site(s) for some business customers. The specialist ensures all site(s) procurement activities are coordinated with other Supply Chain departments to generate maximum value and efficiency for Entergy. The key Supply Chain interfaces for this role are Category Management, Central Procurement Group, Central Contracting Group, Procurement Engineering, Supplier Diversity, warehousing and inventory management, and Capital Projects and Decommissioning. Other key functional interfaces for this position are Tax, Finance, Risk Management, Safety, Human Resources, Legal, and external suppliers. The key stakeholder also interfaces for the procurement specialist role within nuclear are Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Projects and Production. The specialist plans and executes simple to moderately complex scopes of work required to source services and materials through understanding market pricing conditions, executing contracting strategies, managing the RFx processes, supporting supplier negotiations, and providing supplier management support for claims, invoice resolution, etc. The specialist will have a basic understanding of how the site(s) optimally places its demand plan into the relevant marketplace and/or by collaborating with other SC departments, such as Central Procurement Group, Category Management, warehousing and inventory management. The specialist operates with some supervision, depending on the complexity of each assignment, to ensure work inputs and outputs are completed on schedule and all processes and procedures are thoroughly executed. These duties shall be performed in a manner that ensures services and materials are obtained in the most cost effective, efficient, and strategic method with strict adherence to Entergy&rsquo;s policies, procedures, and core values.
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  Job Duties/Responsibilities
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   Safety/Human Performance:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first.
   </li>
   <li>
    Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors.
   </li>
   <li>
    Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Incident Response:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System and/or the nuclear Emergency Response Organization.
   </li>
   <li>
    Perform Nuclear Supply Chain Duty on Call.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Work Processes:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Conduct business site(s) needs assessments to determine customer requirements; attend site (s) weekly plant lead team meetings where appropriate.
   </li>
   <li>
    Perform insightful market and financial analyses to determine potential business risk associated with a supplier or contract; coordinate with Credit Risk as required.
   </li>
   <li>
    Apply the principles and practices of commercial management (plan, strategize, source and perform).
   </li>
   <li>
    Pre-award contract development and post-award contract administration; create and lead the RFx bid process; develop negotiation strategies, optimal pricing methodology, establish KPIs.
   </li>
   <li>
    Process materials&rsquo; RFQs. Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure all specifications, material descriptions, schedule requirements, and quality and quantity requirements are clearly defined and accurate.
   </li>
   <li>
    Create Purchase Orders for execution and issuance, tracking of order status, and expediting when required.
   </li>
   <li>
    Identify and evaluate new and current sources of supply, including small, local and diverse suppliers, to ensure the most competitive and advantageous offering to Entergy.
   </li>
   <li>
    Resolve invoice mismatches for Over, Short, Damaged, or Discrepant issues, etc.
   </li>
   <li>
    Work with Legal and Tax to ensure deviations from standard contract/purchase order language are within Entergy&rsquo;s legal and risk tolerance levels and are approved and documented.
   </li>
   <li>
    Ensure Nuclear Safety Related suppliers are active and approved for use for the requested materials on the Quality Supplier List.
   </li>
   <li>
    Ensure requested material has been reviewed by the appropriate Engineering personnel to ensure purchases will meet all applicable site and regulatory requirements.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Value Creation:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Deliver and document savings through competitive bidding, direct negotiations, cost avoidance, etc.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Process and Reporting Compliance:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Ensure all requirements for savings, diversity, document retention, bidding, contractor safety and other areas of compliance are met.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Partnership/Relationships:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders to ensure Supply Chain is addressing contractual needs pro-actively and in the most beneficial way for Entergy.
   </li>
   <li>
    Work with stakeholders to analyze and develop company position on claims and disputes.
   </li>
   <li>
    Establish/maintain relationships with suppliers/partners, based on the ethical business practices as set forth in the Standards of Conduct and Integrity and Entergy's Supply Chain polices.
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Communications:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Act as a central point of contact with stakeholders and suppliers
   </li>
   <li>
    Maintain open communications between suppliers, stakeholders and within SC to ensure that prompt, thorough, accurate, pertinent and complete information is provided
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   </li>
  </ul>
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  Minimum Requirements
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 <strong>
  Minimum education and experience required of the position
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  <li>
   Site Procurement Specialist I: Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, business, accounting, engineering, or other related discipline OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 4+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience. Any graduating Senior (through the Summer 2025 term) will be considered for this posting.
  </li>
 </ul>
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  <li>
   Site Procurement Specialist II:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, Business, Accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 2+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 6+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience
   </li>
   <li>
    Minimum 1+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Site Procurement Specialist III:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, business, accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 5+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 8+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience
   </li>
   <li>
    Minimum 2+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred
   </li>
  </ul>
  <li>
   Site Procurement Specialist Sr.:
  </li>
  <ul>
   <li>
    Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in supply chain, Business, Accounting, Engineering, or other related discipline and minimum 9+ years of combined material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 13+ years of material purchasing, supplier contracting, vendor management, or other related supply chain experience
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    Minimum 3+ years of energy industry supply chain experience or other/equivalent experience is preferred
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  Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required Of The Position
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  Technical
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  <li>
   Understanding of business and Supply Chain operations within Entergy; including how enterprise organizations buy and pay.
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   Basic application of demand planning across site(s); understanding of how to interface with other SC departments to fulfil demand requirements.
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   Basic application of commercial management processes (plan, strategy, source and perform), including supplier diversity, safety metrics and tools.
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   Basic understanding of how to build contract strategies, based on business site(s) objectives.
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   Ability to perform buying actions for purchase orders; understanding of the alternate buying channels and the utilization of central resources to fulfil orders.
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   Basic understanding in creating and applying negotiation strategies and supporting negotiations for commercial contracts, services or materials.
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   Basic application of pre-award and post-award contract management processes; including supplier performance management.
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   Basic application of the materials purchasing requirements, guidelines and procedures across the enterprise fleet (Nuclear, Power Gen., etc.).
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   Basic application of the end-to-end purchasing and contracting processes.
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   Ability to resolve simple to moderately complex invoice exceptions for purchase orders placed.
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   Basic practice in computer applications and source-to-settlement electronic platform/system to complete purchasing activities.
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   Basic understanding of relationship management between clients, other supply chain specialists, vendors and other third parties for services or materials.
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   Basic application of document management and control standards; including management and maintenance of filing systems (hard copy and electronic).
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   Basic understanding and practice in working across categories; knows when to liaise with other Supply Chain departments.
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   Basic knowledge and understanding of warehouse practices to include receiving, issuing and UTC assignment.
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   Basic knowledge and understanding of documents, drawings, technical specifications associated with material procurements.
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   Basic knowledge and understanding of the Corrective Action Process. (Nuclear)
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   Basic knowledge and understanding of the Procurement Engineering and commercial dedication process (Nuclear)
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  Professional
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  <li>
   Ability to apply basic project management principles to ensure systematic and thorough completion of each assignment.
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   Ability to apply commercial skills and financial acumen to each assignment.
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   Basic application of analytical skills to understand the limitations of data, use appropriate techniques to cleanse and enrich the data; use analytical techniques to produce outputs which assist in business decision making.
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   Strong communications skills to utilize the appropriate method of communication, with internal and external stakeholders.
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   Ability to apply effective stakeholder resolution techniques to resolve conflicts while maintaining positive relationships.
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   Basic understanding to build strong relationships and effective networks with internal and external stakeholders; including suppliers.
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  </li>
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  Minimum Licenses And/or Certifications Required Of The Position
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  Preferred:
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 Suppy Chain certification from an industry accreditation organization such as
 <strong>
  CPSM
 </strong>
 , APICS, etc.
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  Primary Location:
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 Arkansas-Russellville Arkansas : Russellville
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  Job Function
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 : Professional
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  FLSA Status
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 : Professional
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  Relocation Option:
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 No Relocation Offered
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  Union description/code
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 : NON BARGAINING UNIT
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  Number of Openings
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 : 1
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  Req ID:
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 121745
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  Travel Percentage
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 :Up to 25%
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 An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI page, or see statements below.
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  EEO Statement:
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 The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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 The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
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 <strong>
  Accessibility:
 </strong>
 Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click
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  here
 </strong>
 and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.
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 <strong>
  Additional Responsibilities:
 </strong>
 As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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 <strong>
  Equal Opportunity
  <br/>
  <br/>
 </strong>
 The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.
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 <strong>
  Working Conditions
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 </strong>
 As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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  Please note:
 </strong>
 Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.
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