Project Manager-Senior

Project ManagerManage one or more intermediate or complex projects, within a matrix team environment. Provide leadership, direction, training, coordination, and effective communication to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close projects in a safe, efficient, economical, risk-balanced approach to achieve short and long range goals and to obtain maximum customer satisfaction. Provide project transparency and develop relationships and effectively communicate with all stakeholders including internal customers, external customers, team members, suppliers, contractors, vendors, and industry peers, enabling them to make sound business decisions. Enable and promote team level continuous improvement activities that increase quality and optimize delivery of value.What you'll do:Plan, organize, direct, coordinate and supervise assigned project activities becoming proficient in all aspects. Utilize various project management principles and techniques (Waterfall, Agile) and successfully implement these techniques in 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/outage plan, schedule, and budget becoming proficient in all aspects. Manage cost and timely reallocation of funding.Effectively communicate project details and status updates. Lead planning meetings and project updates including typical stakeholder presentations. Provide clear and concise written and oral reports and other communications.Develop and actively manage working relationships with the project team, plant and operating company staff, internal and external customers or partners, contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Foster teamwork and actively pursue customer satisfaction.Provide specific guidance, instruction, and training to improve design, systems, procedures, processes, schedules, and costs. Confidently challenge others at a level of informed understanding in all project work.Ensure maximum customer satisfaction and demonstrate effective and efficient performance of project work activities at an intermediate project level at a minimum.Mentor other project managers. Direct and supervise sub-team project managers as assigned.Develop and manage procurement plans for necessary outside resources. Manage contracts for outside services, including developing requests for proposals, evaluating competitive bids, selecting vendors, participating in contract negotiations, overseeing vendor performance/quality, ensuring work is performed in accordance with the contract, etc.Conduct and supervise closeout processes, including an analysis of the success of the project with respect to accomplishing the project objectives and realizing project benefits.Develop an understanding of the AEP project management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards.Manage programs as assigned.Project Manager SG7Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or related field of study dependent upon business unit requirements with three (3) years qualified experience,Or two-year Associate's degree in the same required disciplines with five (5) years of qualified experience,Or High School Diploma/GED with seven (7) years qualified experience (see below).Project Manager Senior SG8Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or related field of study dependent upon business unit requirements with five (5) years qualified experience,Or two-year associate's degree in the same required disciplines with seven (7) years of qualified experience,Or High School Diploma/GED with nine (9) years qualified experience (see below).Where you'll work:This role sits on site in Roanoke, VirginiaWhat you'll get:Project Manager SG7($87,633-$109,544)Project Manager Senior SG8($98,993-$128,689)In addition to competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.American Electric Power (On-Site)Compensation Grade: SP20-008Compensation Range: $87,633.00 - $128,688.00The Physical Demand Level for this job is: L – Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 12 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 5-6 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for sedentary work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) When it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time, but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.