Engineering Manager-Gas

AEP Service Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 137,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power seeking an Engineering Manager SG10 to lead a multidisciplinary team across the aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio. You will drive staffing, budgets, and performance while ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities include overseeing design reviews, risk management, and applying the New Generation EPC Specification to deliver reliable facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from ABET-accredited program.
• Minimum ten years in utility engineering with project/initiative leadership.
• PE registration in any U.S. state preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team across the project lifecycle (development to closeout).
• Oversee staffing, budgets, performance, and succession planning.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards, QA procedures, and design criteria.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Communication skills

Safety culture

Strategic risk assessment

Planning & organization

Continuous improvement

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.

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.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinating engineering execution across project management, engineering disciplines, contractors, OEMs, and operating organizations.
• Experience with SCGT and/or CCGT project development, design, construction, commissioning, startup, or operations.
• Experience managing technical risk, design decisions, project interfaces, and engineering requirements on complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience establishing and maintaining clear, traceable design‑basis documentation, including technical decisions, assumptions, deviations, configuration changes, and engineering records throughout the project lifecycle.
• Physical demand level is Sedentary.
• Maintains safety as the highest priority and demonstrates behaviors that support zero harm both at work and at home.
• Demonstrates the highest standards of ethical behavior and support the Company's Corporate Compliance Policy.
• Demonstrates leadership ability to effectively organize, direct, and coordinate the work of other personnel.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively and present ideas clearly both orally and in writing, including making presentations and recommendations to senior management and external audiences.
• Exhibits strong teamwork skills which include collaboration.
• Demonstrates strategic risk-assessment, customer focus and business awareness to support technical decision making.
• Focuses on continuous improvement and employee development.
• Strong planning and organizational skills required.

Compensation Data

Compensation Grade: SP20-010
Compensation Range: $136,539.00 - $177,503.00

In addition to competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well‑being of our employees.

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The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.