**Job Posting End Date** 08-17-2025 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date **Job Summary** Takes the lead role, under minimal supervision in performing work activities and projects requiring technical knowledge in a safe, effective, efficient, and economic accomplishment of assigned objectives. **Job Description** **What You’ll Do:** + Enforce safety rules and procedures to assure safe work behaviors including an HPI advocate. Assist in investigating accidents, including root cause analysis and corrective actions. + Conduct thorough job briefings assuring Job Safety Analysis (JSA) specifies work scope, identifies potential hazards, and mitigates hazards. + Be knowledgeable and comply with the AEP Clearance Permit System and Plant Clearance Appendices. + Coordinates work activities of others within work groups, teams or those located externally to AEP including contractors, craft personnel, and vendors as required to resolve routine technical tasks and field work activities. + Collaborate with all stakeholders in identifying, resolving, and initiating solutions to highly complex problems that are unique to AEP and the electric utility industry. Including skills requiring specialized knowledge of equipment and/or problem-solving techniques. + Demonstrates working knowledge of AEP policies, procedures, and guidelines to monitor and ensure work is performed in accordance. + Develop, recommend, and implement plans including scheduling, resource allocation, and cost information to control and address project outcome. + Understands the use of scheduling techniques for budgeting, planning activities and project execution. + Lead and facilitates meetings to ensure effective communication around project status, safety, schedule, etc. + Independently make technical decisions based on calculated risks. + Promote Continuous Improvement, business metric utilization, and strategic forecasting. + Participates in AEP and associated Contractor's meetings covering outage/project schedule, safety issues and operations and maintenance of equipment. + Develops and maintains rapport to assure cooperation and productive working relationships with Business Partners and customers. + Effectively manages conflict and builds consensus for agreement concerning business and/or work issues. + Clearly and concisely develops and presents or reviews reports with business partners and customers as needed. + Participates in providing training, performance improvements for projects and activities of lower-level employees or peers. + Become familiar with computer programs (Work Management System/Maximo, Microsoft tools, and scheduling tools). **What We’re Looking For:** + Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of experience in work activities and projects requiring technical knowledge in planning, construction, or maintenance of systems and/or equipment. + or Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited university or college, plus 1 yr. related work experience + or Associate's Technical degree, plus 3 yrs. related work experience **Other Must Haves:** + Demonstrate the highest standards of ethical behavior and support the Company's Corporate Compliance Policy. + Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills backed by an enthusiastic approach and a diligent client focus. + Ability to interface and work well with different levels of individual contributors and management is required. + Experience in business unit operations and business acumen strongly preferred. + Is proactive in responsibilities and does not wait for direction from management to conduct work. + Must be available to work overtime, call-out overtime, and shift work, as required to accomplish assigned tasks and meet project/outage requirements and schedules. + Demonstrates advanced abilities and aptitude for creativity and innovation while encouraging and developing the innovation of others. + Position requires working outside in all types of weather and exposure to hazardous materials. + Extensive travel required and possible relocation. + Physical demand level is; Medium + Lead a diverse work team to safely perform highly skilled work in the maintaining, repairing, inspecting, installing, rebuilding, and correcting the causes of trouble that develops in all types of Power Plant equipment and Energy Delivery structures. + Assemble, repair, and maintain circuit breakers, transformers, reactive devices, network protectors and transformer. Replace bushings, repair and replaces associated equipment and subassemblies. + Knowledge of print reading sufficient to interpret and apply information from drawings, instruction manuals, one-line diagrams, and associated documents. + Knowledge in design software. + Assemble and erect station steel structural members, assemble and replace switches and buses. + Set up and operate circuit breaker stroke analyzer. Set up tear down and operate oil handling equipment and SF6 gas equipment. Record and read instruments such as voltmeters, watt/reactive meters, ammeters, hydrometers, pressure and level gauges. + Set up and operate TTR, Doble, Core megger and resistance for transformer testing. + Maintain a high level of technical proficiency in the repair of equipment types. + Manage multiple shop jobs simultaneously, assigning resources as required to produce a final product safely, with the required level of quality, in the most efficient manner possible, based on priority. + Manage job documentation, assuring that all processes are followed, and that verification has been completed as required. + Advanced computer systems knowledge, i.e. MS Office, databases, etc. + Communicate directly with customer, engineering, or other stake holders as required to assure successful project completion. + Assist in the training of other employees in work of this nature. + Work overtime as required. + Perform out of town work as required. + Perform other tasks as directed by management. **Compensation Data** **Compensation Grade:** SP20-008 **Compensation Range:** $96,110.00-124,940.00 USD The Physical Demand Level for this job is: M – Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. 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