For Cook Nuclear Plant, 6 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade ... Engineering, Technology, or Project Management. * Qualified experience includes utility specific ...
For Cook Nuclear Plant, 6 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade ... Engineering, Technology, or Project Management. * Qualified experience includes utility specific ...
Education: * Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Project ... Experience in utilities, commercial nuclear power, and/or IT systems is favorable. * PMP ...
Education: * Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Project ... Experience in utilities, commercial nuclear power, and/or IT systems is favorable. * PMP ...
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Project Scheduler Associate-Project Scheduler Senior
Wayne, IN • On-site
8.8
Based on 105 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
6th of 53 rated energy and utility
Great coworkers
People enjoy working here
Good employer
Recommended by students
Paid breaks
Full-time
Posted 10 days ago
Job description
09-02-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
Responsible for coordinating scope of work team activities and supporting the Project Managers (PMs). Under direct supervision, assist more senior employees in their role as scheduler and/or commodity tracker for major projects. Assist in the development and analysis of scope of work schedules using assigned systems. Assist in providing integrated cost loaded, resource loaded, and logic driven schedules, as applicable. Assist in schedule maintenance, collecting progress data, developing and implementing scope of work schedule/status reports, and providing consistent, accurate information to the scope of work execution team.
Job Description
Posted as a Project Scheduler Associate to Project Scheduler Senior
What You'll Do:
- Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop the scope of work plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution.
- Ensure all scope and deliverables are accounted for.
Develop, maintain, and analyze scope of work project schedules using the assigned system (Primavera, SmartSheet, etc.).Organize and lead schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporate appropriate details.
- Ensure clear minutes and action items, as required.
- Engage team and stakeholders to create schedules and provide schedule analysis updates to team, alerting them to schedule risks and issues that could delay milestones.
- Communicate schedule status to project stakeholders.
- Understand the AEP project management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards.
- Adhere to the guidance and standards put forth by the AEP Project Management Governance Committee.
- Work with Administrator to assign security, profiles, and roles for new users.
- Learn, use, and refine sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support project/outage teams on a routine basis.
- Provide periodic summary level status reports as requested.
Prepare and analyze metrics reports or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
What We're Looking For:
Education, work & certification requirements are listed below:
Project Scheduler Associate/SG 5:
- With a High School Diploma, a minimum of 2 years' qualified experience.
- No experience required with a qualified associate or bachelor's degree.
- Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.
- Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures.
- Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, and project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.
Project Scheduler/ SG 6:
- With a High School Diploma or GED, 5 years' qualified experience.
- With a qualified Associate's degree, 3 years' qualified experience.
- With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 1 year of qualified experience.
- Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.
- Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with good working knowledge of work processes and procedures. Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.
- A professional or trade certification such as a CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, RMP, etc. is not required at this level.
- A certification is required to progress to the Principal (grade 008) level of this job family if you have a high school diploma/GED or non-qualified higher education degree. Otherwise, a certification is preferred at the Principal level.
Project Scheduler, Senior/ SG 7
- With a High School Diploma or GED, 6 years' qualified experience. (Note: For Cook Nuclear Plant, 6 years of nuclear experience will suffice and a professional or trade certification is not required).
- With a qualified Associate's degree, 4 years' qualified experience.
- With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 2 years' qualified experience required.
- Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.
- Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures. Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.
- A professional or trade certification such as a CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, RMP, etc. is not required at this level.
- A certification is required to progress to the Principal (grade 008) level of this job family if you have a high school diploma/GED or non-qualified higher education degree. Otherwise, a certification is preferred at the Principal level.
Other Requirements (Applies to All Levels):
- Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively and efficiently; show capacity for organizational and planning skills; as well as having an aptitude for accuracy, attention to detail, and ability to achieve goals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Team players with ability to work and collaborate well with others.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to develop complex spreadsheets.
- Some travel, including overnight, may be required. On rare occasions, temporary relocation might be required to complete projects.
- Must be a self-motivated individual and able to work under general supervision, be independent, and competently perform current scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work project aspects.
- Safely and effectively perform light physical duties at various work sites including home and AEP locations in varying conditions.
- Understand and support the policies, values, principles, structure and behavior of AEP.
- Must be available to work overtime, call-out overtime and shift work, as required.
- Proficient at reviewing scope, client requirements, division of responsibility, scope of work objectives and constraints to develop the strategy for effective project delivery.
- For nuclear positions, work performed at nuclear power sites may involve work in hazardous areas and possible radiation exposure within the limits prescribed by the NRC.
- As applicable based on role and site, duties can involve construction site walkdown on unstable surfaces, climbing ladders, and awareness of hazardous site conditions, as applicable.
Must establish and maintain a permanent residence within a 45-minute safe drive time to Ft. Wayne or Michiana Service Center
What You'll Get:
- Project Scheduler Associate (Salary Grade 5): $63,496-$79-,369
- Project Scheduler (Salary Grade 6): $74,551 - $93,188
- Project Scheduler, Sr (Salary Grade 7): $87,633 - $109,544
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Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
SP20-005
Compensation Range:
$63,496.00 - $93,188.50
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S - Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
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AEP Energy is a certified competitive retail electricity and natural gas supply provider. We proudly serve residential, small business and commercial and industrial customers. AEP Energy has over 100 years of industry experience with backing from our parent company, American Electric Power (AEP). AEP is one of the largest electric energy companies in the United States and ranked 204 of the Fortune 500.
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