Maintenance Technician
Entergy · New Orleans, LA
- Level
- Technician
- Team
- Reliability
- Travel
- 25%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 13 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A technician-level reliability role at Entergy (industrial) in New Orleans, LA. Troubleshoot, identify, and make repairs to the plant equipment including performing preventative maintenance tasks.
- They ask for
- degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Machining
- Day to day
- about 25% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Maintenance Technician roles in the US: typical posted base $54k–$84k.
Median of the low and high ends of 38 live postings that list pay, out of 1903 maintenance technician openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 16 other live reliability postings in Louisiana.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 59%
- Welding 24%
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This plant: Entergy in New Orleans
1 other open role at this site.
Full description from EntergyAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
and experience of the selected candidate. *
- ✓Entergy is looking for a Maintenance Operator/Technician with specific electrical experience *
Job summary/purpose
Responsible for maintaining equipment on utility Steam Turbines and Generators including continuous monitoring and understanding of the equipment's normal operating parameters & limits. Utilize maintenance skills to perform repairs and overhauls of plant equipment. Troubleshooting faulty equipment, assisting in job planning and cost evaluation.
Job duties/responsibilities
- ◆Responsible for performing maintenance functions on equipment throughout the facility which includes rotating equipment, manual and control valves, understanding power plant systems, starting and stopping of equipment, isolating and restoring equipment for maintenance following a Lock Out/Tag Out (LOTO) procedure and monitoring boiler water chemistry equipment.
- ◆Uses elementary principles of mechanical measuring devices, instruments, controls, and regulating devices as used in generating plants.
- ◆Troubleshoot, identify, and make repairs to the plant equipment including performing preventative maintenance tasks.
- ◆Applies knowledge and experience with principles of operation and function of steam boilers, turbo generators, pumps, heaters, steam traps, piping systems, pressure and level regulators and their controls, and auxiliary systems.
- ◆Comply with all Fossil Safety Processes/Practices, Utility Group Safety Process, Environmental policies/practices, participate in the Monthly Safety Meeting, and open to participation on the Safety Committee or the Awareness Team.
- ◆During unit outages, provide contractor management, quality control, cost management and schedule management.
- ◆Interface / communicate with internal and external organizations/customers (dispatchers, directors, contractors, etc.)
Minimum Education
- ✓High school diploma or GED
- ✓Preferred:
- ✓2-year technical school degree with emphasis on electrical skills or equivalent work experience
Minimum Experience
- ✓At least 5 years of experience as a Maintenance Operator or equivalent process operator experience
- ✓Preferred:
- ✓At least 5 years of electrical experience
- ✓At least 5 years of hands-on experience in turbine generator overhaul, fan maintenance, valve repair, pump overhaul, machining skills and other plant electrical maintenance
Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- ✓Knowledge of the elementary principles of mechanical measuring devices, instruments, controls, and regulating devices as used in steam electric plants
- ✓Knowledge of the principles of operation and function of steam boilers, turbo-generators, pumps, heaters, steam traps, piping systems, pressure and level regulators and their controls, and auxiliary systems
Any Certificates, Licenses, etc.:
- ✓Successful completion of the EEI POSS/MASS test
- ✓Candidates selected to take the POSS MASS Test will be invited via e-mail. You may need to check your spam email
- ✓* If you are POSS MASS Recomm
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Date: Oct 23, 2026
Location
United States
Company
Entergy
At Entergy, we’ve been planning for the future for more than 100 years. We’ve experienced a lot of change, generating power first from sawdust to now splitting atoms, harnessing sunlight and using abundant, clean and efficient natural gas.
We are on the verge of a monumental technology convergence, where reality swiftly catches up to possibility. The utility of the future does much more than keep the lights on and the gas flowing. It’s knowledgeable and skillful workforce will solve challenges and fuel a brighter, smarter, more prosperous future for everyone.
Having the lowest retail electricity rates of any utility in the United States drives economic growth within Entergy’s region, a key ingredient to sustained growth for any utility. We also believe a diverse workforce committed to personal and professional growth is critical to our success. We place a high priority on developing talent to meet current and future needs, giving employees opportunities to grow their careers their way.
Entergy’s Power Generation group operates a fleet of more than 30 owned, leased, or operated natural gas, coal, oil hydro and petroleum coke plants, with total engineering capacity of over 18,500 megawatts and is building or acquiring more than 3,000 megawatts of new natural gas generation to join its 30,000 megawatts of nuclear, natural gas, coal, oil, hydroelectric and solar facilities.
- •This position may be filled by a Maintenance Operator or a Maintenance Technician based on the
