Project Scheduler Prin

American Electric Power•New Albany, OH

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This role will be responsible for coordinating team activities and supporting the TFS Dedicated Team that’s responsible for all field verification activities pertaining to FAC-008 and Configuration Management. With minimal supervision, perform role as scheduler and/or commodity tracker for all field verification activities. Support the development and analysis of a wide range of scope of work types, especially complex schedules using the assigned system. Must be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, and team focused individual able to demonstrate competency in scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects. Additional duties include schedule maintenance, collecting progress data, 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.

Requirements

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.
With a High School Diploma or GED, 7 years' qualified experience (Note: For Cook Nuclear Plant, 7 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade certification is not required).
With a qualified Associate's degree, 5 years' qualified experience.
With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 3 years' qualified experience required.
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.
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.
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.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to develop complex spreadsheets.
Must be a self-motivated individual and able to work under general supervision, be independent, and competently perform current scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work project aspects.
Safely and effectively perform light physical duties at various work sites including home and AEP locations in varying conditions.
Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.
Must be available to work overtime, call-out overtime and shift work, as 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.

Nice To Haves

A professional or trade certification such as a CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, RMP, etc. is preferred but not required for candidates with a qualified higher education degree.

Responsibilities

Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop implement the scope of work plan and 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.
Develop fully integrated system schedules (including resource loading and leveling) for complex and intermediate scope of work execution teams including detailed system schedules that utilize critical path methodology based on work scope from the work packages and planners work list.
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.
Diagnose and resolve issues with scope of work schedules.
Mentor and train junior level schedulers on 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.
Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration on a scope of work basis.
Work with the supported teams to provide risk assessments and recommended mitigation actions as requested.
Proficient at reviewing scope, client requirements, division of responsibility, scope of work objectives and constraints to develop the strategy for effective project delivery.