Constructability Lead Principal (Transmission/Fiber)
About The Position
The Construction Lead Principal provides leadership and field oversight across one or more primary disciplines, including constructability, construction planning, transmission lines, substations, distribution, fiber communications, or tower communications. The role promotes safe, efficient, high-quality construction execution, with particular emphasis on identifying and addressing safety risks. It serves as a subject matter expert and primary liaison between Construction Management and cross-functional partners, supporting project planning, coordination, and execution while aligning stakeholders, schedules, and field activities. For fiber communications, the role focuses on fiber-optic network construction, including aerial and underground cable installation, splicing, testing, and system commissioning. It involves understanding fiber systems, routing methods, network configurations, documentation, and testing practices, as well as coordinating system integration to maintain network continuity and functionality. For transmission lines, substations, and distribution, the role applies expertise in high- and medium-voltage infrastructure construction. Work includes interpreting technical drawings and documentation and coordinating construction methods such as conductor stringing, structure erection, substation equipment installation, pole setting, and overhead and underground conductor installation. It also requires coordination of work in energized or near-energized environments, including outage sequencing, planning, switching requirements, and system reliability impacts. The position requires knowledge of the Bulk Electric System and experience in construction management, transmission engineering, transmission operations, or distribution operations. The role also leads, coaches, mentors, and trains junior personnel; supports outage reservation communications and proposals; and promotes collaboration within the Construction Management Team. Travel is greater than 25%. The job is classified as sedentary work, involving mostly sitting with occasional walking or standing and occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field and eight years of experience in the applicable discipline; or a bachelor’s degree in Construction Technology or ABET-accredited Engineering Technology and ten years of relevant experience; or an associate degree in Construction Management Technology or ABET-accredited Electrical or Civil Engineering Technology and twelve years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and fourteen years of experience in construction, project execution, or field operations within electric utility or infrastructure environments.
- Thorough knowledge of the Bulk Electric System from a design and/or operations perspective.
- Experience in Construction Management, Transmission Engineering, Transmission Operations, or Distribution Operations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, for data analysis, reporting, and communications.
- Experience using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive for collaboration, document management, and team coordination.
- Ability to develop professional presentations, dashboards, and reports communicating project status, risks, and performance metrics.
- Experience working in a digital, collaboration-driven environment with structured file management and version control practices.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise systems such as project scheduling tools, work management systems, and GIS platforms.
- Strong organizational and documentation skills to support standardized processes, reporting, and knowledge sharing.
- Strong analytical and technical capabilities, including the ability to interpret project documentation, plans, and schedules.
- Ability to lead understanding, development, and communication of complex outage reservation communications to capital project stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate report data with construction plans and make future outage reservation proposals.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor, and train junior personnel.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Power BI for data visualization and reporting.
- Familiarity with Power Automate for workflow optimization.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and field oversight for safe, efficient, and high-quality construction execution, including identifying and addressing safety risks.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and primary liaison between Construction Management and cross-functional partners.
- Support project planning, coordination, and execution while aligning stakeholders, schedules, and field activities.
- Coordinate fiber-optic construction and system integration, including installation, splicing, testing, commissioning, and maintaining network continuity and functionality.
- Interpret fiber documentation such as splice diagrams, fiber assignment records, and communication network schematics, and apply testing practices such as OTDR validation and signal performance verification.
- Coordinate construction of transmission, substation, and distribution infrastructure, including work in energized or near-energized environments.
- Interpret discipline-specific plans and technical documents, including transmission drawings, structure loading trees, sag and tension charts, substation diagrams, protection and control schematics, and distribution staking sheets and feeder layouts.
- Lead the development and communication of complex outage reservation information to capital project stakeholders.
- Analyze report data alongside construction plans to develop future outage reservation proposals.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and train junior personnel.
- Promote a healthy, collaborative culture within the Construction Management Team.
- Use and support digital collaboration, documentation, reporting, and standardized processes across teams.
- Travel more than 25%.
Benefits
- AEP offers a comprehensive benefits package intended to support and enhance employees’ overall well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
