AEP Employment Information

 

1.                   Job Opportunities

 

Over the next 5 to 7 years approximately 30 jobs per year will be open at 7 AEP Power Plants within 100 miles of Charleston

 

2.                   Employee Selection Process

 

Job Postings

 

Website AEP.com, Careers, Search and apply to current openings

 

Other Outreach efforts including Local Newspaper and West Virginia Job Service

 

Plant Placement Exercises

 

Plant Operator Selection System (POSS)

 

Reading Comprehension

Mathematical Usage

Spatial Ability

Tables and Graphs

 

Maintenance Selection System (MASS)

 

Aptitude Tests

Background and Opinion Questionnaire

 

Interviewing, Physical Exam, and Drug Screening

 

Competitive Candidates Evaluation

 

3.                   Physical Placement Exercises

 

Lifting

 

Climbing

 

Carrying

 

Dexterity

 

Shoveling

 

4.                   Job Description, Partial Listing

 

Monitor and inspect all plant equipment and operate all local controls and devices for proper operations.

 

Service, adjust, lubricate, clean, inspect and repair plant equipment.

 

Place into or remove from service plant equipment and execute the plant’s clearance permit system.

 

Operate a steam-electric generating unit composed of boilers, turbines, generators, transformers, pumps, condensers, scrubbers and related auxiliary and accessory equipment.

 

Perform necessary operating, regulating and adjusting duties in maintaining proper control of plant equipment.

 

5.                   Wage Rate Schedule (12 hour Rate)

 

Equipment Operator Junior (Entry Rate)        $15.05/Hour

 

Equipment Operator, 3 Years (Top Rate)       $24.11/Hour

 

Unit Operator (Top Rate)                   $27.81/Hour

 

Plus benefit package of about 37% of Wages