Hiring: Project Manager (Staff – Staff Sr.) | NEW GENERATION (Kentucky Power) Company: American Electric Power Location: Louisa, KY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:35:40 Employment Type: Contract / On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Design System About the job Required Skills: •FOCUS: EPC, Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) •Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and manage assigned project activities with expert level of 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 for the AEP System Safety Process, ensuring a safe working environment focused on Zero Harm. •Manage, develop, review and coordinate the project plan, schedule, budget, tools, and staff. Effectively and efficiently manage cost and timely reallocate funding. •Effectively communicate project/outage details and status updates. Lead planning meetings and project updates including detailed and complex stakeholder presentations. Ensure others are adequately and effectively prepared for their audience. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports, and other communication. •Develop and actively manage working relationships with project teams, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Foster teamwork and achieve customer satisfaction. •Provide wide range of detailed guidance, instruction, and training to others to improve design, systems, processes, procedures, schedules, and costs. Confidently challenge others at the highest level of informed understanding in all project work. •Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate performance as subject matter expert on all responsible projects. Provide clarity, support, and accountability to enable others’ success. Qualifications: •Provide effective leadership, team building and meeting management as outlined by the certifying body and the AEP leadership and values. Demonstrate a very high level of ability, motivation, and attitude in leading a team, program, project, and those supervised to success. •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, Construction and Startup procedures and processes to optimize a project. Ensure project teams utilize the latest business unit guidelines and requirements. •Identify opportunities for business process improvement across projects or programs, 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, make recommendations, and assist executive management in resolution of elevated issues. •Highly 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 who have long-term strategic value to AEP. •Evaluate and determine the skill sets and capabilities of team members then make recommendations and/or provide constructive feedback to ensure project or program success. •Act with integrity by demonstrating accountability for project assignments. Compensation: •$136,539 - $208,565 / 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!