Entergy Transmission Function Job Titles and Descriptions

November 27, 2017

· Manager, Transmission Services assures that customer requests for transmission interconnection, wholesale distribution, LBA, and MDMA services are addressed in a timely manner, administers agreements for these services with interconnected customers, and works with other Entergy work groups to meet the business needs of customers and the Entergy Transmission Business group. Manager, Transmission Services also administers and interprets Entergy’s interconnection policies and procedures relative to specific agreements.

o Analyst, Sr. Staff is responsible for leading and/or participating on cross-functional teams which design or improve Transmission Settlement processes in accordance with the provisions of MISO’s Open Access Transmission, Energy, and Operating Reserve Markets Tariff, evaluation and interpretation of emerging regulatory guidelines, responding to data requests from both internal departments as well as FERC, NERC, and state regulatory bodies, developing and obtaining execution of contracts to assure that the needs of the Transmission Business are satisfied, facilitating customer funding agreements when appropriate and interfacing with cross-functional groups and/or transmission customers in issue resolution. Provide regulatory support for State and Federal regulatory commissions.

o Analyst, Sr Lead supports the administrative functions of transmission settlements in accordance with the provisions of MISO’s Open Access Transmission Tariff and related reporting and document processing through the use of various business systems, review of contracts and billing determinants to ensure billing accuracy, and calculation and issuance of refunds as required by FERC approved rate filings. Provide regulatory support for State and Federal regulatory commissions.

o Analyst III supports the administrative functions of transmission settlements in accordance with the provisions of MISO’s Open Access Transmission Tariff and related reporting and document processing through the use of various business systems, review of contracts and billing determinants to ensure billing accuracy, and calculation and issuance of refunds as required by FERC approved rate filings.

o Coordinator, Interconnection Arrangements serves as a point of contact for entities seeking transmission or interconnection service expansion of transmission system for transmission service, load additions and generator interconnections with Entergy’s Transmission System, preparation and administration of contracts and metering issues for interconnected customers.

o Sr. Wholesale Executive serves as the point of contact for interconnected wholesale customers for coordination of maintenance activities and generator interconnections with Entergy's Transmission System, provides technical assistance and engineering support to wholesale customers, including the development and presentation of options for transmission solutions, reviews, prepares and administers contracts to assure that the needs of the Transmission Business are satisfied and facilitates wholesale customer funding agreements when appropriate.

· Director, Transmission Control Center - North (TCC-N) is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the high voltage electric transmission system. Provide managerial and technical leadership to Operations Control Room staff to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the electric transmission system. Ensure employee conformance with established policies, procedures and standards and proper training of real time operating staff. Represent the operations group in a variety of internal and external forums and working groups.

o Asst-Administrative III provides office services functions: typing, filing, telephone reception, faxing, mail distribution, time reporting, statistical data analysis, and various daily, weekly and monthly report preparations, updating through the use of various business systems, and performing some basic PC workstation administration activities including loading and updating software.

o Analyst, Sr. supports the administrative functions of budgeting, cost control, document processing, billing and related reporting through the use of various business systems; provides contracting services and administration; orders, tracks and receives materials; plans and schedules various groups’ part of projects and maintenance programs.

o Superintendent, Security assures that safe practices are followed in the operation of the transmission network, to coordinate transmission facility outages, to supervise circuit loading, to respond to requests for transmission access to the Entergy grid, to maintain system integrity, and to maintain operating voltage levels.

§ System Operator, Lead This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates under the direction of the TCC-N Superintendent and/or Director. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69kV to 500kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator Trainee - This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates at the specific direction of a NERC-certified System Operator I through Senior Operator. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator I This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates at the specific direction of a NERC-certified System Operator II through Lead System Operator. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator Sr., System Operator II, / Transmission Operator Sr., Transmission Operator, This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates under the direction of the TCC-N Superintendent and/or a Lead System Operator. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· Manager, Transmission Operational Planning manages the workgroup responsible for providing technical support to real-time operations staff at the Transmission Control Centers (TCCs). This support is accomplished through the preparation of reliability powerflow models and corresponding real-time, next-day and forward looking analyses, coordination of planned transmission outages, voltage stability analysis, development of operating guides and local area security analysis. The Manager, Transmission Operational Planning is responsible for directing the developing and maintenance of all applications used by the Transmission Operational Planning (TOP) group to conduct studies and oversees the development of daily and monthly powerflow models. The Manager, Transmission Operational Planning provides input to regulatory/compliance filings in support of new business practices for Transmission Operations and ensures that the workgroup processes are in compliance with all FERC, NERC, and SERC standards/requirements. The Manager, Transmission Operational Planning ensures coordination amongst several business units to control project costs and coordination. The Manager, Transmission Operational Planning also works closely with the Reliability Coordination and Tariff Administration personnel to ensure reliable system operations.

o Supv, Outage Coordination manages the workgroup responsible for (i) coordinating, scheduling and studying transmission and substation facility outages on the Entergy transmission system to support safe, reliable and efficient operation, and (ii) providing support to real-time operations staff at Entergy’s transmission operations centers. Supervisor of Outage Coordination is also responsible for closely working with other business units (including Power Generation and Nuclear) to proactively eliminate outage conflicts. They also play a part in controlling customer costs and earning a fair share of return by identifying windows of opportunity for transmission capital projects to meet their in-service date obligations.

· Engineer Sr. / Engineer I / Engineer II / Engineer III (Trans) provides technical support to the Transmission Control Centers by load flow analysis in support of outage scheduling, developing operating guidelines and conducting local area security analysis.

· Coord-Transmission Outage Sr. manages the outage schedule of transmission and substation facilities within the TOC control area so as to avoid outages that adversely affect customer load, transmission system reliability and transactions across the grid. Assists the Lead Dispatcher to identify available switchmen and verifying proper switching orders, and makes operational recommendations based on input from Transmission Operational Planning, the SOC, retail customers, transmission line and substation maintenance personnel, project management personnel, and external utilities.

o Engineer Sr. / Engineer I (Trans) / Engineer II (Trans) / Engineer III (Trans) / Sr Engineer (Trans) provides technical support to the Transmission Control Centers by building operational planning models, conducting same-day and next-day system security analysis, providing backup load flow analysis for the outage coordinators in support of outage scheduling, and voltage stability analysis. Transmission Operational Planning engineers represent Entergy at various SERC/NERC workgroups or committees.

o Student Intern will assist Transmission Operations Planning in model development. The intern will review all the PI tags that Transmission Operations Planning uses to pull in real time data to build the Daily and Next Day cases. The intern will also review the GMS and TMS displays, check the system one-lines and make sure the Transmission Operations Planning models match.

· Director, Transmission Control Center - South (TCC-S) is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the high voltage electric transmission system. Provide managerial and technical leadership to Operations Control Room staff to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the electric transmission system. Ensure employee conformance with established policies, procedures and standards and proper training of real time operating staff. Represent the operations group in a variety of internal and external forums and working groups.

· System Operator, Lead monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates under the direction of the Security Superintendent and/or Director. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69kV to 500kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator Trainee - This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates at the specific direction of a NERC-certified System Operator II through Lead System Operator. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator I - This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates at the specific direction of a NERC-certified System Operator II or Sr. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· System Operator II, System Operator Sr. /Transmission Operator, Transmission Operator Sr. This position works in a 24/7 rotating shift and operates under the direction of the TCC-S Security Superintendent and/or a Lead System Operator. This position monitors and controls the transmission line and substation facilities within a geographical area. Duties include planning, writing and execution of transmission and substation switching orders that are issued to field personnel. The orders include the switching of all substation equipment and protective relay schemes including voltages ranging from 69 kV to 500 kV. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing substation equipment alarms via SCADA system, isolating transmission problems through emergency switching and sectionalizing, dispatching company personnel for corrective action, control of area wide transmission voltage, executing load shed and black start procedures, maintaining records and logs, and generating reports.

· Student Intern is to perform cleanup and update work with switching, alarm and device numbering databases. Will review SCADANET/EGB/electronic onelines for human performance traps, develop and enhance outage notification scripts, explore automated check-in opportunities and setup check-in desks. Intern will also research outage management programs and help solidify the associate business case, research VSAT/TSAT opportunities, and help stand up operations human performance and operating experience programs.

· Manager, Operations Engineering Admin is to provide managerial and technical leadership to Operations Support staff to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the electric transmission system. Ensure employee conformance with established policies, procedures and standards and proper training of operations engineering staff. Represent the operations group in a variety of internal and external forums and working groups.

o Policy Consultant, Trans Tech provides support for implementing the FERC Open Access Transmission Tariff and OASIS, to comply with FERC orders and NERC policies, to provide customer access to OASIS, to provide consultancy regarding provisions in the pre-888 order contracts, and interface with the Transmission Regulatory Support department to implement FERC orders and update the Business Practices.

o Analyst, Sr. Lead is responsible for leading and/or participating on cross-functional teams which design or improve transmission processes, driving the modeling of those processes, evaluation and interpretation of emerging regulatory guidelines, developing business requirements for changes to existing automated systems or for new systems, performing customer acceptance testing on newly delivered software, responding to data requests from internal departments as well as those from FERC, NERC, and state regulatory bodies, and interfacing with cross-functional groups and/or transmission customers in issue resolution

o System Analyst III supports the Operations Engineering staff to ensure the safe and reliable operations of the electric transmission system. Works to develop procedures and training material as needed for training of the operations engineering staff. Works to ensure employee compliance with NERC policies. Assists in the preparation of responses to data requests from both internal departments as well as FERC, NERC, and state regulatory bodies.

o Engineer, Staff (Trans) is responsible for leading and/or participating on cross-functional teams which design or improve Operations Engineering processes, provide technical support for applications used by the Operations Engineering, evaluation and interpretation of emerging regulatory guidelines, provide support in developing business requirements for changes to existing automated systems or for new systems, performing customer acceptance testing on newly delivered software, responding to data requests from both internal departments as well as FERC, NERC, and state regulatory bodies, and interfacing with cross-functional groups and/or transmission customers in issue resolution.

o Engineer Sr. / Engineer III / Engineer II is responsible for leading and/or participating on cross-functional teams which design or improve Operations Engineering processes, provide technical support for applications used by the Operations Engineering, evaluation and interpretation of emerging regulatory guidelines, provide support in developing business requirements for changes to existing automated systems or for new systems, performing customer acceptance testing on newly delivered software, responding to data requests from both internal departments as well as FERC, NERC, and state regulatory bodies, and interfacing with cross-functional groups and/or transmission customers in issue resolution.

· .Manager, Training develops and implements the overall training program for Transmission Operations Department, including performing training, testing, qualification and certification of control room and operations personnel. Develops and supports simulator program and provides support for real-time operator tools, regulatory support, and support with writing and maintaining real-time operations procedures.

o Senior Engineer (Trans) supports and/or leads projects related to the technical needs of the Manager/Supervisor and his/her organization. Provides coordination of capital projects, develops computer system applications, provides employee training and development programs, analyzes system performance and calculates operational settings, and supports the simulator program. Provides support for training and real-time operations. Additional responsibilities include: analyzing system conditions/procedures and recommend improvements/corrections, and measures system performance and benchmarks that performance against others.

o Specialist, System Operations is responsible for the development, implementation, and administration of the NERC Certification and Systematic Approach to Training programs for TCC operating personnel. Some responsibilities include developing and administering training to TCC Operators though the Training Department’s Systematic Approach to Training, coordinating with Operations Management to develop a Training Plan each year and to maintain operating procedures, working with Engineers on projects that impact Operator responsibilities, tasks and tools used by the Training Department and the Operators, administering Operator Qualifications, modifying Tasks as needed, ensuring PER-005 compliance, participating in NERC, SERC, and MISO committees that are focused on training, and serve as a subject matter expert on all operating procedures, tools, and responsibilities.

o Technician A Sr. - Assists in maintaining the training schedule for the Transmission Control Center Operators, maintaining the Learning Management System (LMS), maintaining training records and performs administrative tasks to assist the training manager and other team members.

o Student, Intern - Duties include: Working on Procedure and Task updates, assisting in maintaining the DTS simulator, assisting real-time operations by performing data analysis, assisting in records management activities, and assisting in the development and support of operator training, tools and processes.