Project Scheduler (Principal - Staff) (Transmission)

Location: On-site in New Albany, Ohio, United States; travel, overnight assignments, work at project sites, and occasional temporary relocation may be required.

Base salary: $99K–$151K per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions.

What you will do

• Define activities, durations, work sequences, relationship logic, and milestones for complex transmission project scopes.
• Develop integrated resource-loaded and leveled schedules using critical path methodology.
• Maintain schedules, collect progress data, prepare status reports, and communicate risks and schedule updates to project stakeholders and senior management.
• Coordinate schedule reviews with project managers, execution teams, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Integrate schedule and cost performance using SPI/CPI processes and provide risk assessments and mitigation recommendations.
• Mentor junior schedulers and support project management standards, systems, profiles, and scheduling processes.

Requirements

• Related education in accounting, business, construction management, engineering, technology, or project management, with qualified experience based on education level.
• Required qualified experience in utility operations, design, planning, project management, cost tracking, forecasting, budgets, accounting principles, construction, or maintenance.
• High school diploma or GED requires 7 years of qualified experience; an associate’s degree requires 5 years; a bachelor’s degree requires 3 years.
• Professional or trade certification is required with only a high school diploma or non-qualified higher education degree; examples include CCMP, CETa, IQCP, PMP, and RMP.
• Strong scheduling, analytical, organizational, communication, collaboration, and Microsoft Office skills, including complex spreadsheet development.
• Ability to work on-site at AEP and project locations, perform occasional light physical duties, travel overnight, and work overtime, call-out overtime, or shifts as required.

Nice to have

• Professional or trade certification when not otherwise required.
• Experience with nuclear power sites, construction site walkdowns, or hazardous work environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with competitive total rewards.
• Discretionary annual incentive, 401(k), pension, health insurance, vacation, and educational assistance.
• Work aligned with AEP project management governance, safety policies, and customer-focused energy delivery.
• Potential work at nuclear sites may involve hazardous areas and radiation exposure within NRC limits.