**Job Posting End Date** 12-30-2024 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date **Job Summary** Responsible for the distribution Graphical Information System (GIS) and associated data, the use of GIS technology to improve business processes, the integration of data from multiple applications, and the transformation and delivery of the integrated data into information useful for decision making related to operating the assets of the AEP distribution system. **Job Description** **Essential Job Functions:** + Provide counsel to Utilities management for issues related to the use of GIS and data to improve business processes. + Develop and coordinate strategies used to provide GIS data and related services in order to minimize operational risks. + Develop and coordinate strategies used to integrate GIS technology into daily operations that improve business processes. + Develop and coordinate strategies to create distribution data marts that integrate data from multiple applications that result in the transformation and delivery of data into information useful for decision making to all levels of Utilities management. + Effectively communicate both complex technical and non-technical GIS issues to AEP leadership. + Assess patterns of technologies by examining their effects on parts of an organization, as well as the effects on the organization's interactions with customers, suppliers, distributors, and workers + Promote safe excavation and damage prevention within AEP and the larger excavating community through shared responsibility, safe digging practices, and the economic review of locate requests and involvement with state and local damage prevention agencies. **Minimum Requirements:** **Education requirements are listed below:** Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering or GIS mapping or Associate degree in related discipline and two (2) years of experience in a GIS related field or High school diploma and four (4) years' experience in a GIS related field. **Work Experience requirement listed below:** Minimum of twelve (12) years' experience in distribution related activities in addition to experience listed above including five (5) years supervisory/management experience. **Required License(s)/Certification(s) are listed below:** Valid state driver's license. **Other Requirements:** Physical demand level is Sedentary 1) Travel required 2) Strong organizational and communications skills 3) Some overtime required 4) Ability to field review distribution facilities Job code: 67001 **Compensation Data** **Compensation Grade:** SP20-010 **Compensation Range:** $129,963.00-168,952.00 USD **Hear about it first!** Get job alerts by email. Log in to your Candidate Home Account today! If you don't have an account, you can create one. It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all aspects of the employer‐employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we must record certain information to be made part of an Affirmative Action Plan. Applicants for employment may also be invited to participate in the Affirmative Action Program by self-identifying their Race or Ethnic Identity.