Engineering Manager-Gas

American Electric Power•Columbus, OH

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering Manager is responsible for planning, staffing, and executing engineering projects and overseeing technical support services that deliver safe, cost-effective solutions for AEP’s new and existing power generation fleet. The role manages engineering resources and coordinates and supervises discipline-specific engineering work involving systems and equipment. It also provides employee direction and guidance to encourage continuous improvement, development, and talent retention, while ensuring engineering deliverables follow Engineering standard work and Quality Assurance procedures. The position leads and develops a multidisciplinary engineering and technical team supporting the aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio. It leads engineering execution throughout the project lifecycle and integrates work among internal project, engineering, operating, and self-development organizations and external AE/EPC firms, OEMs, suppliers, and consultants. The manager oversees technical interfaces, design changes, deviations, nonconformances, engineering issues, and risks that affect safety, quality, cost, schedule, reliability, operability, or regulatory compliance. The role owns and maintains the New Generation EPC Specification for the portfolio, ensuring that it aligns with Engineering Services requirements, design criteria and standards, portfolio needs, and lessons learned. It ensures project engineering and design comply with applicable specifications, requirements, codes, regulations, permits, quality requirements, and contractual commitments. The manager leads design reviews and other technical activities related to safety-in-design, constructability, operability, maintainability, quality, commissioning, and startup readiness. The position promotes standardization and incorporation of proven solutions and operating experience into future projects and the EPC Specification. It ensures design-basis decisions, assumptions, engineering rationale, deviations, due-diligence findings, risk assessments, lessons learned, and other decision records are traceable throughout the asset lifecycle. It also ensures completed and acquired facilities have complete, accurate, organized, retrievable engineering records that preserve design intent and reflect the final asset configuration, and leads engineering turnover, closeout, and acquisition transition to support Operations, Maintenance, and long-term asset management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a program accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.
A minimum of ten years of experience in utility engineering work.
Project or initiative leadership experience.
Significant progressive engineering experience in power generation, including gas-fired generation, major capital projects, or comparable industrial facilities.
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinating execution across project management, engineering disciplines, contractors, OEMs, and operating organizations.
Experience with SCGT and/or CCGT project development, design, construction, commissioning, startup, or operations.
Experience managing technical risk, design decisions, project interfaces, and engineering requirements on complex projects.
Experience establishing and maintaining clear, traceable design-basis documentation, including technical decisions, assumptions, deviations, configuration changes, and engineering records throughout the project lifecycle.
Ability to effectively organize, direct, and coordinate personnel.
Ability to communicate and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
Strategic risk-assessment, customer-focus, and business-awareness skills to support technical decision-making.
Strong planning and organizational skills.
Commitment to safety as the highest priority and behaviors that support zero harm at work and at home.
Highest standards of ethical behavior and support for the Company's Corporate Compliance Policy.

Nice To Haves

Direct supervisory experience.
Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) in any U.S. state.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and manage a multidisciplinary engineering and technical team supporting the aeroderivative and heavy-frame SCGT/CCGT portfolio, including staffing, workload, performance, succession planning, resources, and budgets.
Establish organizational priorities and foster safety, accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, inclusion, employee development, and continuous improvement.
Lead engineering execution across the project lifecycle, from development and proposal support through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, performance testing, turnover, and closeout.
Serve as the primary engineering integrator among Project Engineering, Self-Development and Self-Build Project Management, Engineering Services, Operating Companies, AE/EPC firms, OEMs, suppliers, and consultants.
Direct resolution of technical interfaces, design changes, deviations, nonconformances, engineering issues, and project risks affecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, reliability, operability, or regulatory compliance.
Own and maintain the New Generation EPC Specification applicable to the portfolio, keeping it aligned with design criteria, technical specifications, standards, portfolio requirements, and lessons learned.
Ensure project engineering and design comply with the New Generation EPC Specification, Engineering Services requirements, codes and regulations, permits, quality requirements, and contractual commitments.
Provide engineering leadership for design reviews, safety-in-design, constructability, operability, maintainability, quality, commissioning, and startup readiness.
Promote standardization and application of proven engineering solutions, and incorporate project and operating experience into future projects and the New Generation EPC Specification.
Ensure design-basis decisions, assumptions, engineering rationale, approved deviations, due-diligence findings, risk assessments, lessons learned, and decision records are documented and traceable throughout the asset lifecycle.
Ensure completed and acquired facilities have complete, accurate, organized, and retrievable engineering records that preserve design intent and reflect the asset configuration.
Lead engineering turnover, project closeout, and acquisition transition to support Operations, Maintenance, and long-term asset management.
Organize, direct, and coordinate the work of other personnel.
Communicate effectively and present ideas clearly in writing and orally, including presentations and recommendations to senior management and external audiences.
Support strategic risk assessment, customer focus, business awareness, continuous improvement, and employee development.