Hiring: Project Manager (Multiple Opportunities) - Columbus, OH / Dallas, TX. Company: American Electric Power Location: Columbus, OH Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 10:35:41 Employment Type: Contract / On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Design System About the job Required Skills: •Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and supervise assigned project and outage work activities for customers with demonstrated proficiency in all aspects. Skillfully and successfully use project management principles and techniques (Waterfall, Agile) for project management for the organization. •Support and hold employees and contractors accountable to AEP safety policies and standards, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Commitment to "Zero Harm". •Supervise, develop, review and coordinate the project/outage plan, schedule, budget, tools, and staff with demonstrated proficiency in all aspects. •Effectively manage cost and timely reallocate funding. Effectively communicate project/outage details and status updates. •Lead planning meetings and project/outage updates including detailed and complex stakeholder presentations. •Provide clear and concise written reports. Develop and actively manage effective working relationships with the project team, operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. •Foster teamwork and actively monitor customer satisfaction. •Provide wide range of detailed guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, processes, schedules, and costs. Qualifications: •Provide effective leadership, team building and meeting management as outlined by the certifying body and the AEP leadership competencies and values. Demonstrate a very high level of ability, motivation, and attitude in leading a team and a project to successful conclusion. •Effective and compelling communication, including the use of effective listening, with all stakeholders including team members, sponsors, management and senior management. •Influence the Engineering & Design, Procurement, Contracting, Estimating, and Construction procedures and processes to optimize a project. Ensure project teams utilize the latest department and/or business unit guidelines and requirements. Identify opportunities for business process improvement across projects and drive implementation. •Provide organization of project activities, delegate project task assignments, confidently set team requirements and expectations, manage deliverables, and hold team members accountable. Provide constructive feedback to project team members. •Effectively prioritize and manage conflict to provide solutions to issues that maximize synergies with an overriding goal to do the "right thing" for the company. Take timely independent action and offer recommendations to management for resolution of elevated issues. •Proficient in scope management, evaluation of technical solutions, and project risk management. •Proficient and highly effective in contract development and management especially skilled in allocating risk between owner and contractor within terms of the contract. Leverage and build relationships with contractors in developing program level procurement. •Act with integrity by demonstrating accountability for project assignments. •Seek input from Subject Matter Experts by asking the right questions, understanding the nuance, clarifying and validating information, and not relying on one’s own knowledge base or assumptions. Sensitize experts to influences they have on the project key parameters of project budget, scope, schedule and risk. •Evaluate and determine the skill sets and capabilities of team members then make recommendations and/or provide constructive feedback to ensure project success. Compensation: •$136,539 - $177,503 / 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!