Jobs at American Electric Power

Identify and develop small business customers for retail electric supply through cold calling, canvassing, lead follow-up, and self-generated prospecting. Gather customer and meter information, assess creditworthiness, use CRM tools, present energy solutions, negotiate agreement terms, address objections, and close deals. The role requires consistent sales activity, customer relationship building, regulatory compliance, and meeting monthly sales-volume goals.

Administer and engineer enterprise SolarWinds monitoring platforms, including upgrades, troubleshooting, high availability, network device monitoring, alerting, dashboards, reporting, and ServiceNow/CMDB integrations. Develop PowerShell automation for onboarding, inventory, reporting, and lifecycle management. Support critical infrastructure operations, incident response, compliance, architecture, modernization, and disaster recovery initiatives while collaborating with network, infrastructure, security, and application teams.

Lead full-stack development for supply chain and procurement technology products. Architect AI solutions, React.js front ends, Node.js back-end services, PostgreSQL data models, AWS deployments, CI/CD pipelines, enterprise integrations, and IAM controls. Guide developers, collaborate with business and technology teams, support production incidents and changes, and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery standards.

Provides technical support for ICCP infrastructure, SCADA, EMS, DMS, and ADMS systems supporting utility distribution and transmission operations. Configures and tests ICCP points, troubleshoots real-time data exchanges, monitors system health, supports partner onboarding, validates redundancy and failover, and assists with reliability compliance. The role also documents procedures, executes SQL queries, participates in incident response and after-hours support, and supports Protection and Control SCADA standards and implementation activities.

Leads AEP’s legal practice before FERC, advising on electric transmission, RTO, NERC, rate, policy, transactional, compliance, and generation matters. Drafts and presents regulatory filings, briefs, testimony, opinions, and comments; manages proceedings, tariff filings, and rulemakings; represents the company in PJM, SPP, and MISO stakeholder matters; and advises management and internal teams on federal and state energy regulation, risk, and compliance.

Leads delivery of complex, multibillion-dollar high-voltage transmission projects. Owns project execution, safety, budget, schedule, regulatory compliance, contracts, risk, staffing, construction, and stakeholder alignment. Directs cross-functional teams, contractors, and joint-venture partners while reporting to executive leadership. Oversees regulatory approvals, capital planning, commercial strategy, dispute resolution, and team development. Travel is typically up to 50%, with possible temporary relocation to project sites.

Supports compensation program administration, including market pricing, salary surveys, job descriptions, job codes, pay equity, recognition programs, compensation planning, stock plans, wage increases, and reporting. Partners with HR, talent acquisition, payroll, HRIS, and business leaders to ensure accurate, compliant, and equitable compensation practices. Performs audits, analyzes compensation data, advises on job offers and pay decisions, and assists with special projects such as acquisitions and divestitures.

Leads project controls across assigned projects, overseeing cost and schedule management, forecasting, risk management, change control, performance metrics, audits, and reporting. Manages and develops project controls personnel, establishes standards and processes, coordinates project plans and contractual requirements, and supports capital and O&M work. Partners with project teams, contractors, vendors, and leadership across utility, construction, generation, transmission, distribution, telecom, and nuclear environments. The role requires strategic leadership, stakeholder communication, training, continuous improvement, and occasional site travel.

Leads federal government affairs and advocacy strategy for AEP. Represents the company before federal agencies and Administration officials, builds relationships with policymakers and external stakeholders, monitors regulatory developments, advises leadership on policy impacts, and prepares executive briefings and advocacy materials. Coordinates executive meetings with policymakers, manages coalitions and trade associations, supports industry engagement, and ensures compliance with lobbying, ethics, and reporting requirements.

Manage complex utility, construction, and outage projects from initiation through closeout. Responsibilities include planning schedules and budgets, supervising teams and contractors, managing procurement and contracts, controlling risks and costs, communicating with stakeholders, ensuring safety and quality, mentoring project managers, and supporting projects across power plants, infrastructure, and construction sites.

Provides engineering support for reliability applications, EMS processes, State Estimator functionality, and transmission operations across PJM, SPP, and ERCOT. Monitors and resolves data and model quality issues, analyzes power-flow solution results, verifies modeling integrity, and supports real-time grid reliability. Participates in a 24x7 on-call rotation and assists with engineering analysis, project planning, cost estimates, reporting, and technical problem-solving under the guidance of senior engineers.

Coordinates multiple concurrent projects by tracking schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, requirements, risks, and action items. Maintains project trackers, calendars, logs, dashboards, documentation, and status reports. Organizes project meetings, communicates updates to stakeholders, verifies completion status, identifies gaps or conflicts, and escalates issues. Supports project managers and cross-functional teams across engineering, design, construction, operations, permitting, and environmental disciplines.

Provides technical leadership for safe, reliable, efficient power plant operations. Responsibilities include troubleshooting equipment, root cause analysis, performance monitoring, reliability programs, configuration control, regulatory compliance, technical documentation, and capital project coordination with vendors, contractors, operations, and maintenance teams.

Creates, revises, and maintains engineering, facility, equipment, construction, and record drawings using CAD software. Gathers technical information from field notes, vendors, manuals, and site visits; performs calculations; coordinates work with internal teams; manages documentation; supports employee training; and follows safety and compliance requirements. The role requires occasional substation or power plant work, overtime availability, vehicle operation, and travel exceeding 10%.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering for utility-scale generation projects throughout conceptual design, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Coordinates internal teams, developers, architects and engineers, OEMs, contractors, regulators, and stakeholders. Manages engineering work plans, design reviews, RFIs, meetings, progress reporting, construction support, and risk-based technical decisions. Projects include gas turbine, solar, wind, battery storage, environmental retrofit, and fuel conversion initiatives.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering for utility-scale generation projects, including gas, solar, wind, battery storage, and environmental retrofit initiatives. Manages engineering work plans, design reviews, procurement coordination, RFIs, stakeholder meetings, construction support, commissioning, and project closeout. Provides technical leadership across internal teams, consultants, OEMs, EPC contractors, developers, and regulatory agencies. The role is onsite in Louisiana, West Virginia, or Ohio and requires travel within the AEP footprint during construction.

Leads engineering for utility-scale generation projects across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, developers, consultants, OEMs, EPC contractors, and regulators; manages engineering work plans, design reviews, RFIs, meetings, progress reporting, and technical issue resolution. Projects include gas turbine, combined-cycle, solar, wind, battery storage, environmental retrofit, and fuel conversion assets. The role is onsite in Rockport, Indiana or Columbus, Ohio, with travel during construction.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering for utility-scale generation projects across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Coordinates AEP teams, developers, A/E firms, OEMs, contractors, and regulators; manages engineering work plans, design reviews, RFIs, meetings, schedules, technical decisions, and progress reporting. Projects include gas turbine, solar, wind, battery storage, retrofit, and fuel conversion facilities. The role is onsite in Columbus, Ohio, or Moundsville, West Virginia, with travel during construction.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering for utility-scale power generation projects, including conceptual and detailed design, procurement, construction support, commissioning, design reviews, RFIs, stakeholder coordination, progress reporting, and project closeout. Projects include gas turbine, solar, wind, battery storage, environmental retrofit, and fuel conversion initiatives. The role provides technical leadership across internal teams, consultants, OEMs, EPC contractors, developers, and regulatory agencies, with travel to generation facilities during construction.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering for utility-scale generation projects across conceptual design, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Coordinates AEP teams, developers, architect-engineers, OEMs, contractors, regulators, and stakeholders. Manages engineering work plans, design reviews, RFIs, meetings, progress reporting, issue resolution, and technical support. The role covers gas, solar, wind, battery storage, retrofit, and fuel-conversion projects, with up to 25% travel during construction.