Project Scheduler - Project Scheduler, Principal

Job Posting End Date

12-19-2025

Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

This role will be responsible for coordinating scope of work team activities and supporting the Project Managers (PMs). with some supervision, perform functions of as scheduler and/or commodity tracker for major projects. Develop, maintain & analyze less complex scope of work schedules using the assigned system. Develop and analyze scope of work schedules using assigned systems. Provide integrated cost loaded, resource loaded, and logic driven schedules, as applicable. Perform schedule maintenance, collecting progress data, developing and implementing scope of work schedule/status reports, and providing consistent, accurate information to the scope of work execution team.

Please note: This position is posted in a range, and an offer will be made based on the candidate's qualifications.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop the scope of work plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution.

• Ensure all scope and deliverables are accounted for.

  Develop, maintain, and analyze scope of work project schedules using the assigned system (Primavera, SmartSheet, etc.).Organize and lead schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporate appropriate details.

• Ensure clear minutes and action items, as required.

• Engage team and stakeholders to create schedules and provide schedule analysis updates to team, alerting them to schedule risks and issues that could delay milestones.

• Communicate schedule status to project stakeholders.

• Understand the AEP project management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards.

• Adhere to the guidance and standards put forth by the AEP Project Management Governance Committee.

• Work with Administrator to assign security, profiles, and roles for new users.

• Learn, use, and refine sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support project/outage teams on a routine basis.

• Provide periodic summary level status reports as requested.

  Prepare and analyze metrics reports or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

What We're Looking For:

Project Scheduler/ SG 6:

Education:

• With a High School Diploma or GED, 5 years' qualified experience.
• With a qualified Associate's degree, 3 years' qualified experience.
• With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 1 year of qualified experience.
• Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.

Experience:

• Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures. Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.

License/Certifications:

• A professional or trade certification such as a CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, RMP, etc. is not required at this level.
• A certification is required to progress to the Principal (grade 008) level of this job family if you have a high school diploma/GED or non-qualified higher education degree. Otherwise, a certification is preferred at the Principal level. 

Project Scheduler, Senior/ SG 7

Education:

• With a High School Diploma or GED, 6 years' qualified experience. (Note: For Cook Nuclear Plant, 6 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade certification is not required).
• With a qualified Associate's degree, 4 years' qualified experience.
• With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 2 years' qualified experience required.
• Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.

 Experience:

• Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures. Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, project budgets, working wi