Project Scheduler Staff

AEP Service Corporation; New Albany (OH); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

AEP Service Corporation is seeking a Senior Scheduler to act as a technical SME for project scheduling within the department, supporting development and analysis of schedule deliverables. The role covers complex scheduling using the assigned system and includes training schedulers and planners to plan, schedule, baseline, and analyze scopes of work.

Responsibilities include implementing scope of work schedules, trend analysis, and ensuring status reporting to senior management.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED with 8 years of qualified experience.
• Associate's degree with 6 years of qualified experience.
• Bachelor's degree with 4 years of qualified experience.
• Degrees must be in a related field (Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management).
• Qualified experience includes utility operations knowledge and related work processes.

Responsabilités

• Define activities, durations, sequences, and logic to develop the scope of work plan.
• Develop milestones representing key decisions and deliverables.
• Ensure logic and activities meet customer detail requirements and department standards.
• Lead junior schedulers in schedule reviews with stakeholders.
• Provide schedule risk analysis updates and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Administer and align with AEP project management standards and governance.

Connaissances

Scheduling

Communication

Team leadership

Project management

Formation

High School Diploma

Associate's degree

Bachelor's degree

Outils

Scheduling system

Description du poste

Job Posting End Date

11-03-2026 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

The staff role is a technical SME for project scheduling within the department and will be responsible for supporting and providing guidance of the development and analysis of project schedule deliverables.

This includes the development and analysis of a wide range of scope of work types, especially complex schedules using the assigned system.

This role will also train schedulers and planners, so they are technically able to plan, schedule, integrate, baseline, and analyze scopes of work.

Additionally, when applicable, administer security, reporting, maintenance, and daily operation of systems and software.

Must be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, and team focused individual able to demonstrate expert competency in scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects.

Additional duties include 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.

This position is on site.

Job Description

What You Will Do:

• Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop and implement the scope of work plan.
• 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.
• Provide input and guidance to schedulers in the development of fully integrated system schedules (including resource loading and leveling) for schedules that utilize critical path methodology based on work scope from the work packages and planners work list.
• Responsible for the development of junior schedulers in organizing schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporating appropriate details.
• 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.
• Administer and/or oversee the administration of security profiles and roles for new users within the scheduling system.
• Ensure schedulers are using sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support teams on a routine basis.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with scope of work schedules.
• Responsible for the development of 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.
• Ensure consistent application of earned value management reporting across the department.
• Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration including SPI/CPI and setup/maintenance of associated data systems and processes on a scope of work basis.
• Work with the project teams to provide risk assessments and recommended mitigation actions as requested.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with project schedules.
• Own the project schedule standard work processes; leading the development, review, and implementation.

What You Will Need:

• With a High School Diploma or GED, 8 years' qualified experience **
• With a qualified associate's degree, 6 years' qualified experience. *
• With a qualified bachelor's degree, 4 years' qualified experience required. *
• 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.
• 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.

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