1. Define activities, duration, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop implement the scope of work plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution. Ensure all logic and activities support the level of detail required by the customer and meet internal department standards and guidance. Ensure all scope and deliverables are accounted for.

2. Provide input and guidance to schedulers in the development of fully integrated system schedules (including resource loading and leveling) for schedules that utilize critical path methodology based on work scope from the work packages and planners work list.

3. Responsible for the development of junior schedulers in organizing schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporating appropriate details.

4. 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.

5. Direct and guide the administration of 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.

6. Administer and/or oversee the administration of security profiles and roles for new users within the scheduling system.

7. Ensure schedulers are using sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support teams on a routine basis.

8. Diagnose and resolve issues with scope of work schedules.

9. Responsible for the development of junior level schedulers on the following: preparing and analyzing metric reports; preparing and analyzing schedule risk; developing what-if schedules to address various scenarios and options as necessary; crashing scope of work schedule durations; following processes and handbook procedures; and all aspects of scheduling within the assigned systems and software.

10. Ensure consistent application of earned value management reporting across the department. Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration including SPI/CPI and setup/maintenance of associated data systems and processes on a scope of work basis.

11. Work with the project teams to provide risk assessments and recommended mitigation actions as requested.

12. Diagnose and resolve issues with project schedules.

13. Own the project schedule standard work processes; leading the development, review, and implementation.