Project Manager (Staff - Staff Sr.) (CCGT)

Location: Hallsville, Texas, United States; on-site. Work is performed at offices, power plants, construction sites, and other AEP locations, with travel typically up to 25% and occasionally up to 50% for short periods.

Base salary: $137,000–$208,000 per year, with level-specific ranges of $137,000–$177,000 and $161,000–$208,000.

Company

hirify.global delivers safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions through its operating companies, including Southwestern Electric Power Company.

What you will do

• Manage complex new-generation projects using Waterfall and Agile project management practices.
• Lead project planning, scheduling, budgeting, staffing, cost control, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, contracting, estimating, construction, startup, plant operations, vendors, suppliers, and contractors.
• Maintain safety, quality, scope, risk, schedule, and financial controls across projects.
• Lead planning meetings, stakeholder presentations, project updates, and status reporting.
• Provide guidance, training, accountability, and subject matter expertise to project teams and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, business, computer science, or a related discipline with 10 years of qualified experience; alternatively, an associate’s degree with 12 years or a high school diploma/GED with 14 years.
• Expert-level experience in project management, major construction, estimating, project controls, project engineering, or comparable production environments.
• Demonstrated mastery of construction safety, negotiations, scope control, cost estimating, construction contracting, reporting, quality control, and risk management.
• PMP certification is required unless formally waived by the appropriate senior executive.
• Valid state driver’s license and ability to perform light physical duties, including construction site walkdowns and ladder climbing.
• Ability to work on-site at AEP facilities, power plants, and construction sites in the United States, including potentially hazardous nuclear-site areas.

Nice to have

• Three years of experience as a Principal Project Manager or demonstrated equivalent competencies.
• Experience in utilities, commercial nuclear power, and/or IT systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-focused environment centered on AEP’s Zero Harm process.
• Annual discretionary incentive opportunity.
• 401(k), pension, health insurance, and vacation benefits.
• Educational assistance and professional development support.
• Work across generation, transmission, distribution, telecommunications, and construction infrastructure projects.