Project Scheduler Associate-Project Scheduler Senior

Job Posting End Date 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

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, Smart Sheet, 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).

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…