Senior Project Manager: Lead Complex, High-Impact Projects

American Electric Power; Victoria (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power is seeking a skilled project manager to lead multiple intermediate to complex projects within a matrix environment in the United States. You will direct scope, schedules, and budgets while ensuring safety and customer satisfaction.

You will apply Waterfall and Agile methods, drive stakeholder communications, and mentor junior PMs to promote continuous improvement and value delivery across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and supervise assigned project activities becoming proficient in all aspects. Utilize various project management principles and techniques (Waterfall, Agile) and successfully implement these techniques in project management for the organization.
• Support and hold employees and contractors accountable for the AEP System Safety Process, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Zero Harm.
• Manage, develop, review and coordinate the project/outage plan, schedule, and budget becoming proficient in all aspects. Manage cost and timely reallocation of funding.
• Effectively communicate project details and status updates. Lead planning meetings and project updates including typical stakeholder presentations. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports and other communications.
• Develop and actively manage working relationships with the project team, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Foster teamwork and actively pursue customer satisfaction.
• Provide specific guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, processes, schedules, and costs. Confidently challenge others at a level of informed understanding in all project work.
• Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate effective and efficient performance of project work activities at an intermediate project level at a minimum.
• Mentor other project managers. Direct and supervise sub-team project managers as assigned.
• Develop and manage procurement plans for necessary outside resources. Manage contracts for outside services, including developing requests for proposals, evaluating competitive bids, selecting vendors, participating in contract negotiations, overseeing vendor performance/quality, ensuring work is performed in accordance with the contract, etc.
• Conduct and supervise closeout processes, including an analysis of the success of the project with respect to accomplishing the project objectives and realizing project benefits.
• Develop an understanding of the AEP project management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards.

Job description

American Electric Power is seeking a skilled project manager to lead multiple intermediate to complex projects within a matrix environment in the United States. You will direct scope, schedules, and budgets while ensuring safety and customer satisfaction.

You will apply Waterfall and Agile methods, drive stakeholder communications, and mentor junior PMs to promote continuous improvement and value delivery across the organization.