Project Manager (Principal - Staff) - Transmission/Telecommunications Ohio

Job Posting End Date

10-04-2025

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

Job Summary

Manage multiple projects or programs at the highest level of complexity within a matrix team environment. Provide leadership, direction, training, coordination, and effective communication to initiate , plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects in a safe, efficient, economical, risk-balanced approach to achieve short- and long-range goals and to obtain maximum customer satisfaction. Provide project transparency and develop relationships and effectively communicate with all stakeholders including internal customers, external customers, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers, enabling them to make sound business decisions.

Job Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and manage assigned project activities with expert level of proficiency in all aspects. Skillfully and successfully use project management principles and techniques (Waterfall, Agile) for project management for the organization.
• Support and hold employees and contractors accountable for the AEP System Safety Process, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Zero Harm.
• Manage, develop, review and coordinate the project plan, schedule, budget, tools, and staff. Effectively and efficiently manage cost and timely reallocate funding.
• Effectively communicate project/outage details and status updates. Lead planning meetings and project updates including detailed and complex stakeholder presentations. Ensure others are adequately and effectively prepared for their audience. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports, and other communication.
• Develop and actively manage working relationships with project teams, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Foster teamwork and achieve customer satisfaction.
• Provide wide range of detailed guidance, instruction, and training to others to improve design, systems, processes, procedures, schedules, and costs. Confidently challenge others at the highest level of informed understanding in all project work.
• Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate performance as subject matter expert on all responsible projects. Provide clarity, support, and accountability to enable others’ success.
• Represent AEP, as required, with industrial customers, vendors, and regulators as assigned projects dictate.
• Provide clarity, support, and accountability to enable others’ success.
• Use and help align the organization with the AEP project management organizational standards. Manage projects to those standards.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Based on education, experience, interview evaluation and internal equity, this opportunity will be filled at either title. For this posting, minimum requirements are stated at the lower grade. Increased expectations are at the higher grade.

Project Manager Staff (grade 10): base salary = $133K - $172K.

PMP certification required for this position unless approval to waive the requirement is given by the organizations SVP or OPCO President.

Project Manager Principal (grade 9): base salary = $113K - $146K. PMP certification is preferred.

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or related field of study dependent upon business unit requirements with seven (7) years qualified experience or, two-year Associate’s degree in the same required disciplines with nine (9) years of qualified experience (see below).

Two (2) years of experience as a PROJECT MANAGER SENIOR (Grade 8) is preferred, OR demonstrated competencies, knowledge and skillset through achieved results in a shorter time line.

Qualified experience includes work in project management, major construction field experience, project estimating, project controls, project engineering, and/or comparable internal or external experience in a competitive production environment. Experience must include a demonstrated level of successful project management duties, business acumen, and prior responsibility for ALL of the certifying body knowledge areas. "

Demonstrated preparedness for specialist level PM knowledge capability in areas of construction safety, negotiations, scope development and control, cost estimating, construction contracting, project controls and reporting, quality control, risk management, etc.

Experience in utilities, commercial nuclear power, and/or IT systems is favorable.

PMP certification is preferred but not required.