Engineering Manager-Gas

AEP Service Corporation; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AEP Service Corporation in Columbus, OH seeks an Engineering Manager SG10 to lead a multidisciplinary engineering and technical team supporting the aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio. You will oversee staffing, performance, budgets, and safety culture.

The role requires a ABET-accredited engineering degree, 10+ years in utility engineering, project leadership, and PE license when possible. You will drive engineering excellence, compliance with standards, and turnover of complete,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering ABET-accredited.
• Minimum of ten years of utility engineering experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering and technical team supporting aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio, including staffing, workload, performance, and budgets.
• Establish priorities and foster safety, accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Lead engineering execution across the project lifecycle from development to closeout, including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Coordinate among Project Engineering, Engineering Services, operating companies, AE/EPC firms, OEMs, suppliers, and consultants to align requirements and asset performance.
• Direct resolution of technical interfaces, design changes, deviations, nonconformances, and project risks affecting safety, quality, cost, or schedule.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Project management

Staffing & budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety & quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (ABET-accredited)

Job description

Job Posting End Date

11-11-2026 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

Responsible for the effective planning, staffing, and execution of engineering projects as well as oversight of technical support services to deliver safe, cost-effective solutions for AEP's new and existing Power Generation fleet. This includes resource management, coordination, and supervision of engineering efforts as they pertain to the specific discipline, systems and/or equipment groups. Responsible for providing direction and guidance to employees to promote continuous improvement, development, and talent retention. Responsible for effectively insuring engineering deliverables are produced in accordance with Engineering standard work and Quality Assurance procedures.

Job Description

What you'll do

• Lead, develop, and manage a multidisciplinary engineering and technical team supporting the aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio, including staffing, workload, performance, succession planning, resources, and budgets.
• Establish organizational priorities and foster a culture of safety, accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, inclusion, employee development, and continuous improvement.
• Lead engineering execution across the project lifecycle, from development and proposal support through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, performance testing, turnover, and closeout.
• Serve as the primary engineering integrator among Project Engineering, Self-Development and Self-Build Project Management, Engineering Services, Operating Companies, AE/EPC firms, OEMs, suppliers, and consultants to align technical requirements, project objectives, operating needs, and long-term asset performance.
• Direct resolution of technical interfaces, design changes, deviations, nonconformances, engineering issues, and project risks affecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, reliability, operability, or regulatory compliance.
• Own and maintain the New Generation EPC Specification applicable to the portfolio, ensuring it remains accurate, complete, and aligned with Engineering Services design criteria, technical specifications, design standards, portfolio requirements, and lessons learned to provide a consistent technical basis for new AEP assets delivered through AE, EPC, or similar delivery models.
• Ensure project engineering and design comply with the New Generation EPC Specification, applicable Engineering Services requirements, codes and regulations, permits, quality requirements, and contractual commitments.
• Provide engineering leadership for design reviews, safety-in-design, constructability, operability, maintainability, quality, commissioning, startup readiness, and other technical activities necessary to deliver safe, reliable, and maintainable facilities.
• Promote standardization and application of proven engineering solutions and lessons learned, ensuring project and operating experience is incorporated into future projects and the New Generation EPC Specification.
• Ensure critical design-basis decisions, assumptions, engineering rationale, approved deviations, lessons learned, and decision records are documented and traceable throughout the asset lifecycle, preserving the engineering knowledge and design history of the portfolio.
• Ensure completed facilities are delivered with complete, accurate, organized, and retrievable engineering records that preserve design intent and reflect the final facility configuration. Lead engineering turnover and closeout to support Operations, Maintenance, and long-term asset management.
• Ensure critical design-basis decisions, assumptions, engineering rationale, approved deviations, due-diligence findings, risk assessments, lessons learned, and decision records are documented and traceable throughout the asset lifecycle, preserving the engineering knowledge and design history of the portfolio.
• Ensure completed and acquired facilities are supported by complete, accurate, organized, and retrievable engineering records that preserve design intent and accurately represent the asset. Lead engineering turnover, project closeout, and acquisition transition to support Operations, Maintenance, and long-term asset management.

What we are looking for

Engineering Manager SG10

Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering in a program accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

Experience: Requires a minimum of ten years of experience in utility engineering work. Project/ initiative leadership experience is required. Direct supervisory experience is preferred.

Required License(s)/Certification(s): Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) in any U.S. state is preferred.

• Significant progressive engineering experience in power generation, including experience with gas-fired generation, major capital projects, or comparable industrial facilities.

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