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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited university or college OR Associate's degree with two (2) years' experience in design, operations, planning, construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment (for Coordinator Assoc - Grade 05).
• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited university or college OR Associate's technical degree and three (3) years' experience in design, operations, planning, construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment (for Coordinator - Grade 06).
• Typically requires a minimum of three (3) years of experience in work activities and projects requiring technical knowledge.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively and efficiently.
• Show capability of having 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.
• Listen and identify customer needs/wants.
• Effectively communicate with team, management, customers, contractors, vendors and regulatory agencies.
• Team player with ability to work and collaborate well with others.
• Must be proficient in the operation of computer systems in a Windows environment and have the ability to learn new and complex systems.
• Immediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and ability to develop complex spreadsheets.
• Ability to apply problem solving skills to resolve technical problems and initiate solution techniques.
• Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.

Nice To Haves

• Excel – Advanced Proficiency with ability using and creating Pivot/Advanced Filtering/External Data Integration/formula techniques
• SQL – Moderate – Ability to navigate tables, run predefined queries for reporting, and modifying and adjusting basic table queries.
• Project Management/Scheduler - Moderate – Understanding of tasks, subtasks, monitoring and managing schedules and joining schedule data from multiple sources.
• MS Project/P6/P6 TeamMember – Novice to Moderate Skillset – Desired candidate will be trained to leverage software as needed
• PowerBI/PowerQuery/Smartsheet - Moderate
• ShareNow/SharePoint – Moderate to Advanced – Operate as a Admin; design and maintain sites
• Microsoft Office 365
• ServiceNow/Docusign/Maximo/Cognos – common software used to perform daily tasks
• Cognos, EcoSys, and/or Maximo experience is Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate work activities of others within work group, team or those external to the company including contractors, vendors as required to resolve routine technical tasks and field work activities.
• Prepare forecasts of intermediate projects including cash flows, budget variance monitoring, cost tracking/analysis.
• Perform varied assignments demonstrating and providing technical knowledge and analytical techniques to solution of problems or analysis to internal and external customers.
• Depending on the needs of the department, this work could focus on outage planning, risk management, operation and maintenance of equipment, new customer requests, new construction, and/or determining work prerequisites and specifications.
• Coordinate and participate in company and contractor meetings covering project work, risk strategy, safety issues and operations and maintenance of equipment.
• Make decisions and contribute to team decision making and consensus building.
• Create contract requisitions, create work authorizations, create processing change orders, and track Contractor costs.
• Participate in the planning and organization of project work activities.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that work prerequisites and deadlines are met.
• Negotiate with vested parties to adjust schedule, cost, and general project coordination due to workload, weather, and other scheduling conflicts.
• Document project's risk analysis and generate project risk assessment report.
• Work with others in both supplying information and seeking assistance as necessary.
• Communicate with stakeholders to update plans, checklists, schedules, statuses, and budgets.
• Assist with the proactive management of project risk.
• Assist in regular reviews of productivity and performance factors.
• Provide training and guidance to lower-level employees as appropriate.
• 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.
• Administer the change management process associated with programs and projects to properly characterize changes to the project and assess the impact on the project objectives.

Benefits

• Company sponsored training programs
• Educational assistance
• Social and recreational programs
• Compensation
• Benefits