Project Scheduler Assc - Sr
About The Position
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. Independently lead the effort to develop and analyze intermediate and complex scope of work schedules using the assigned system. Able to plan, schedule, integrate, baseline, update, maintain, and analyze scope of work schedules with minimal supervision or oversight. When applicable, maintain security, reporting, maintenance, and daily operation of systems and software and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for assigned scopes of work projects. Must be self-motivated, a good communicator, and team focused individual able to competently perform scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects. Additional duties may include developing and implementing scope of work schedule status reports for the management team. The candidate must be able to interface with a variety of stakeholders including execution teams, contractors, suppliers, and AEP management.
Requirements
- No experience required with a qualified Associate's or Bachelor's degree.
- With a High School Diploma, a minimum of two (2) years’ qualified experience.
- 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.
- 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, and project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.
- 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.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to develop complex spreadsheets.
- Safely and effectively perform light physical duties at various work sites including home and AEP locations in varying conditions.
- Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of work projects of variable complexity.
- Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.
Nice To Haves
- Some travel, including overnight, may be required.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop the scope of work plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution.
- Ensure all scope and deliverables are accounted for.
- Develop, maintain, and analyze scope of work project schedules using the assigned system (Primavera, Smartsheet, etc.).
- Organize and lead 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.
- Understand 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.
- Learn, use, and refine sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support project/outage teams on a routine basis.
- Provide periodic summary level status reports as requested.
- Prepare and analyze metrics reports or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
