Project Manager - Project Manager Sr

About the role

Manage 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 on 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.

Requirements

• Note: This position is posted at multiple grade levels and offers a range of opportunities for advancement.
• The minimum qualifications outlined below apply to the Project Manager Associate level, with increased educational, skill, experience and certification requirements for higher level Project Managers.

Qualifications

• Note: This position is posted at multiple grade levels and offers a range of opportunities for advancement.
• The minimum qualifications outlined below apply to the Project Manager Associate level, with increased educational, skill, experience and certification requirements for higher level Project Managers.

Skills

• Develop effective leadership, team building and meeting management skills as outlined by the certifying body and the AEP leadership competencies and values.
• Develop ability, motivation, and attitude, to lead a team and a project.
• Develop communication skill that is clear, direct, concise, and professional, including use of effective listening, with all stakeholders including team members, sponsors, management and senior management.
• Become familiar with economic analysis techniques and develop an acumen for the business and profession.
• Become familiar with Engineering & Design, Procurement, Contracting, Estimating, Construction and Startup procedures and processes.
• Develop knowledge of certifying body Project Management tools and techniques.
• Develop skillsets in strategic thinking, planning, risk assessment and prioritization of project activities.
• Globally view the project from all angles such as safety, constructability, sequence, changing conditions, contingencies, contractual, predictability, level of priority, sense of direction and sense of productivity to quickly identify and to avoid or to mitigate project risks.
• Support the organization of project activities, project task assignments, team requirements and expectations to manage deliverables and hold team members accountable.
• Develop conflict management skills to provide solutions to issues that maximize synergies with an overriding goal to do the "right thing" for the company.
• Become familiar with scope management, evaluating various technical options, and common project risk factors.
• Become familiar with the various documents to procure labor, services, materials, and engineered equipment.
• Become familiar with contract documents and development process.
• Develop understanding of critical drawing and document hand-offs between disciplines on a project team.
• Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.

Benefits

Where You'll Work: On-Site in Tulsa, OK

What You’ll Get: $99,000 - $128,700 In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.