Project Scheduler (Principal - Staff) | NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

401(k)

Pension

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Job summary

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER (AEP) is seeking a skilled Project Scheduler to coordinate team activities and support PMs. This role focuses on scheduling and commodity tracking for major projects, ensuring accurate status reporting and integration with senior management.

Responsibilities include developing fully integrated schedules, mentoring junior schedulers, and interfacing with field teams and contractors to maintain on-time delivery and adherence to governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating complex project schedules and scope of work.
• Ability to develop and maintain milestone schedules and governance.
• Strong written and verbal communication, and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define activities, durations, sequences and logic to build scope plans and milestones.
• Develop integrated system schedules with resource loading and critical path lines.
• Mentor junior schedulers and lead schedule review meetings with stakeholders.
• Provide schedule status updates and risk/mitigation actions to management.
• Interface with site teams, contractors, and senior leadership on scheduling matters.
• Coordinate schedule and cost integration (SPI/CPI) for scope units.

Skills

Scheduling

Project coordination

Communication

Team player

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Associate's degree with 5 years' experience

High school Diploma with 7 years' experience

Tools

Scheduling software

Microsoft Office

Job description

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 are accounted 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’RE LOOKING FOR

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

Project Scheduler Staff (grade 9): base salary = $117K - $151K

Project Scheduler Principal (grade 8): base salary = $99K - $128K

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.

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‑out 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

Base Salary: approximately $99K - $151K

• discretionary annual incentive
• 401(k)
• pension
• health insurance
• vacation
• educational assistance
• etc.

WHO WE ARE

At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward‑thinking organization, this is the company for you!

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER (on‑site)

$99K - $151K / Year

Compensation Data

Compensation Grade:

SP20-008

Compensation Range:

$98,993.00 - $151,000.00

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.

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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