Project Scheduler (Principal - Staff) - Nuclear Dev - Columbus, OH

American Electric Power Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 99,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

401(k)

Pension

Health insurance

Vacation

Educational assistance

Job summary

American Electric Power, located in Columbus, OH, is seeking a Scheduler/Project Controls professional to coordinate team activities and support Project Managers. The role focuses on developing complex schedules using Primavera P6, maintaining schedules, collecting progress data, and delivering accurate status reports to senior management.

Qualified candidates will have experience in large, complex projects, strong communication, and proficiency in Excel.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and managing project schedules for large, complex projects.
• Proficiency with Oracle Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience with cost tracking, forecasting, and project budgets.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other PM tools.

Responsibilities

• Define activities, durations, sequences, and relationships to develop scope of work and milestones.
• Ensure logic supports customer detail and internal standards; account for scope and deliverables.
• Develop integrated schedules (resource loading/leveling) with critical path methodology.
• Mentor junior schedulers and lead schedule review meetings with stakeholders.
• Provide schedule status updates, risks, and action items to senior management.
• Interface with site teams, contractors, and AEP leadership to ensure alignment.

Skills

Scheduling

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Communication

Oracle Primavera P6 (P6)

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

High School Diploma or GED with 7 years of qualified experience

Associate's degree in a related field

Tools

Oracle Primavera P6 (P6)

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Location: Columbus, OH

Category : Project Management/Controls

Job Summary

This role will be responsible for coordinating team activities and supporting the Project Managers (PMs). With minimal supervision, perform role as scheduler and/or commodity tracker for major projects. Support the development and analysis of a wide range of scope of work types, especially complex schedules using the assigned system. Must be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, and team focused individual able to demonstrate competency in scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects. Additional duties include schedule maintenance, collecting progress data, developing and implementing scope of work schedule/status reports, and providing consistent, accurate information to the senior management team. The candidate must be able to interface with site execution teams, contractors, and AEP senior management.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop implement the scope of work plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution.
• Ensure all logic and activities support the level of detail required by the customer and meet internal department standards and guidance. Ensure all scope and deliverables areaccounted for.
• Develop fully integrated system schedules (including resource loading and leveling) for complex and intermediate scope of work execution teams including detailed system schedules that utilize critical path methodology based on work scope from the work packages and planners work list.
• Mentor and assist junior schedulers in organizing 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. Direct and guide the administration of 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. Diagnose and resolve issues with scope of work schedules.
• Mentor and train junior level schedulers on the following: preparing and analyzing metric reports; preparing and analyzing schedule risk; developing what‑if schedules to address various scenarios and options as necessary; crashing scope of work schedule durations; following processes and handbook procedures; and all aspects of scheduling within the assigned systems and software.
• Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration including SPI/CPI processes on a scope of work basis.
• Work with the project teams to provide risk assessments and recommended mitigation actions as requested.

What We Are Looking For:

Education:

• • Education requirement is dependent upon experience as indicated below. 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.
  • With a High School Diploma or GED, 7 years' qualified experience (Note: For Cook Nuclear Plant, 7 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade certification is not required).
  • With a qualified Associate's degree, 5 years' qualified experience.
  • With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 3 years' qualified experience required.

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.
  • Experience developing and managing project schedules for large, complex projects.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Oracle Primavera P6 (P6) scheduling software.
  • Experience performing critical path analysis, schedule forecasting, and project progress tracking.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other project management tools

License/Certifications:

• • A professional or trade certification such as a CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, RMP, etc. is required for candidates possessing only a high school diploma or a non-qualified higher education degree. Otherwise, a certification is preferred but not required.

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively and efficiently; show capacity for organizational and planning skills; as well as having an aptitude for accuracy, attention to detail, and ability to achieve goals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Team player with ability to work and collaborate well with others.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to develop complex spreadsheets.
• Some travel, including overnight, may be required. On rare occassions, temporary relocation might be required to complete projects.
• Must be a self-motivated individual and able to work under general supervision, be independent, and competently perform current scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work project aspects.
• Safely and effectively perform light physical duties at various work sites including home and AEP locations in varying conditions.
• Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.
• Must be available to work overtime, call-overtime and shift work, as required.
• Proficient at reviewing scope, client requirements, division of responsibility, scope of work objectives and constraints to develop the strategy for effective project delivery.
• For nuclear positions, work performed at nuclear power sites may involve work in hazardous areas and possible radiation exposure within the limits prescribed by the NRC.
• As applicable based on role and site, duties can involve construction site walkdown on unstable surfaces, climbing ladders, and awareness of hazardous site conditions, as applicable.

What You'll Get:

In addition to base salary, AEP offers competitive Total Rewards including discretionary annual incentive, 401(k), pension, health insurance, vacation, educational assistance, etc.

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Compensation

$98,993.00 - $151,132.00

Physical Demands

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer‑employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.

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