Hiring: Project Manager Company: American Electric Power Location: Gahanna, OH Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:35:41 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Design System About the job Required Skills: •This position is posted from a Project Manager to a Project Manager Principal •Project Manager & Project Manager Senior •Support and hold employees and contractors accountable for the AEP System Safety Process, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Zero Harm. •Develop, review and coordinate the project plan, schedule, budget, tools, and staff. Perform coordination role as assigned to increase awareness in all knowledge areas of project plans. Perform Lead Project Manager role as assigned to increase awareness and build proficiency in all knowledge areas of project plans. •Effectively communicate project details and status updates. Lead planning meetings and project/outage updates with supportive role in stakeholder presentations. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports and other communication. •Develop working relationships with the project team, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Foster teamwork and seek customer satisfaction. •Provide guidance and feedback, to improve design, systems, procedures, schedules, and costs. Provide specific guidance in these areas and begins to challenge others at an apprentice level of informed understanding in all project work. •Ensure, or assist the lead project manager in ensuring, efficient and timely performance of project work activities. Proficient and effective in assisting the lead project manager and/or delivers similarly when leading intermediate projects on their own. Qualifications: •Project Manager & Project Manager-Senior •Develop and provide effective leadership, team building and meeting management skills as outlined by certifying body and the AEP leadership competencies and values. Develop confidence in ability, and demonstrate the motivation and attitude, to lead a team and project to successful conclusion. •Develop skills in and provide effective communication that is clear, direct, concise, and professional, including effective listening, with all stakeholders including team members, sponsors, management and senior management. •Develop understanding of, and begin to apply, economic analysis techniques. Develop an acumen for business and profession with an emphasis on overall cost, schedule and risk management. •Develop understanding of Engineering & Design, Procurement, Contracting, Estimating, Construction and Startup procedures and processes. Begin to influence optimization of a project and ensure project team utilizes the latest applicable guidelines and requirements. •Develop a working knowledge of, and begin to demonstrate ability to apply, certifying body Project Management tools and techniques. •Support and progressively demonstrate ability to provide the organization of project activities, delegate project task assignments, confidently set team requirements and expectations to manage deliverables and hold team members accountable. Demonstrate willingness to provide constructive feedback to project team members. •Develop and hone conflict management skills to provide solutions to issues that maximize synergies with an overriding goal to do the "right thing" for the company. Learn to take independent action and know when to elevate an issue. •Develop understanding and solid skills around the process of scope management, evaluation of technical options, and common project risk factors and mitigation methods. •Develop understanding and apply knowledge, and provide input and oversight, of the various documents used to procure labor, service, material, and engineered equipment. Compensation: •$87,633 - $151,132 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!