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Engineering Supervisor roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application with the DOL before sponsoring your petition, certifying that your wage meets the prevailing rate for your SOC code and work location.
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11-13-2026
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Job Summary
Supervise and direct employees to effectively plan, organize, budget, direct, control and lead engineering, design and capital project activities, providing technical guidance and leadership for assigned activities. These activities will be executed in a manner that ensures application of technically and economically appropriate engineering solutions and with consideration to employee and public safety, system reliability, standardization, ease of operation, and timely project completion within approved project schedules and authorized budgets. This position is intended to serve as a first level supervisor of engineering and planning activities.
Job Description
What You'll Do:
- Regional Engineering Support: Lead Circuit Engineering support for assigned operating regions, ensuring timely and effective response to field, customer, operational, and emergent engineering needs.
- Circuit Reliability & Customer Experience: Develop and execute engineering work plans that identify and address circuit reliability issues, recurring problems, and opportunities to improve customer experience and system performance.
- Engineering Work Management: Establish priorities, balance engineering resources, monitor workload and performance, and ensure engineering requests and commitments are completed safely, accurately, and on schedule.
- Field & Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong working relationships with Field Operations, Customer teams, Design, ROW, Planning, Protection & Control, and other supporting organizations to resolve issues and develop practical engineering solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead continuous-improvement efforts that strengthen engineering processes, eliminate recurring issues, improve consistency, and enable engineers to identify and implement better reliability solutions.
- Technical Execution & Engineering Quality: Provide oversight and technical direction for regional circuit engineering activities, including emergent requests, new-customer support, arc-flash studies, DAE scoping, coordination reviews, and watchlist remediation.
- People Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop the Circuit Engineering team by establishing clear expectations and performance goals, conducting performance reviews, providing ongoing feedback and development, supporting workforce and succession planning, and maintaining a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and safe work practices.
What We're Looking For:
Education requirements are listed below:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited institution. degree preference is in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering OR in engineering technology in a program accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the ABET. Acceptable alternatives are (1) a Bachelor's in engineering (non-ABET), plus a Professional Engineers (PE) license OR (2) a Bachelor's in engineering (non-ABET) plus a Master's in engineering from a university with an ABET accredited Bachelor's program.
Work Experience requirement listed below:
- Typically has acquired six or more years' experience in transmission engineering, construction, or operations or other equivalent related experience such as distribution or generation engineering, construction, or operations experience.
Other:
- Must maintain a state driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
- Professional Engineer licensure preferred.
- Project Management Professional certification is a plus.
- Significant experience in electric distribution engineering, distribution operations, automation, grid modernization, system planning, protection, or related engineering disciplines.
- Experience developing KPIs, performance dashboards, governance processes, and technical work plans.
- Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively with field employees, operations leadership, customer organizations, technical groups, and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineers and coordinate multiple priorities in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate circuit performance, identify root causes, and develop practical engineering solutions.
- Demonstrated continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to identify process and reliability improvement opportunities and drive them through implementation.
- Ability to manage workload, resource allocation, workforce planning, and applicable budgets.
What You’ll Get:
In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do!
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
Compensation Range:
$116,255.00 - $151,132.50
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects 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 (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
Job Posting End Date
11-13-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
Supervise and direct employees to effectively plan, organize, budget, direct, control and lead engineering, design and capital project activities, providing technical guidance and leadership for assigned activities. These activities will be executed in a manner that ensures application of technically and economically appropriate engineering solutions and with consideration to employee and public safety, system reliability, standardization, ease of operation, and timely project completion within approved project schedules and authorized budgets. This position is intended to serve as a first level supervisor of engineering and planning activities.
Job Description
What You'll Do:
- Regional Engineering Support: Lead Circuit Engineering support for assigned operating regions, ensuring timely and effective response to field, customer, operational, and emergent engineering needs.
- Circuit Reliability & Customer Experience: Develop and execute engineering work plans that identify and address circuit reliability issues, recurring problems, and opportunities to improve customer experience and system performance.
- Engineering Work Management: Establish priorities, balance engineering resources, monitor workload and performance, and ensure engineering requests and commitments are completed safely, accurately, and on schedule.
- Field & Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong working relationships with Field Operations, Customer teams, Design, ROW, Planning, Protection & Control, and other supporting organizations to resolve issues and develop practical engineering solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead continuous-improvement efforts that strengthen engineering processes, eliminate recurring issues, improve consistency, and enable engineers to identify and implement better reliability solutions.
- Technical Execution & Engineering Quality: Provide oversight and technical direction for regional circuit engineering activities, including emergent requests, new-customer support, arc-flash studies, DAE scoping, coordination reviews, and watchlist remediation.
- People Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop the Circuit Engineering team by establishing clear expectations and performance goals, conducting performance reviews, providing ongoing feedback and development, supporting workforce and succession planning, and maintaining a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and safe work practices.
What We're Looking For:
Education requirements are listed below:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited institution. degree preference is in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering OR in engineering technology in a program accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the ABET. Acceptable alternatives are (1) a Bachelor's in engineering (non-ABET), plus a Professional Engineers (PE) license OR (2) a Bachelor's in engineering (non-ABET) plus a Master's in engineering from a university with an ABET accredited Bachelor's program.
Work Experience requirement listed below:
- Typically has acquired six or more years' experience in transmission engineering, construction, or operations or other equivalent related experience such as distribution or generation engineering, construction, or operations experience.
Other:
- Must maintain a state driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
- Professional Engineer licensure preferred.
- Project Management Professional certification is a plus.
- Significant experience in electric distribution engineering, distribution operations, automation, grid modernization, system planning, protection, or related engineering disciplines.
- Experience developing KPIs, performance dashboards, governance processes, and technical work plans.
- Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively with field employees, operations leadership, customer organizations, technical groups, and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineers and coordinate multiple priorities in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate circuit performance, identify root causes, and develop practical engineering solutions.
- Demonstrated continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to identify process and reliability improvement opportunities and drive them through implementation.
- Ability to manage workload, resource allocation, workforce planning, and applicable budgets.
What You’ll Get:
In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.
Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do!
At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!
Compensation Data
Compensation Grade:
Compensation Range:
$116,255.00 - $151,132.50
The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects 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 (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Engineering Supervisor
Match your degree to the SOC code
USCIS evaluates whether your engineering degree directly relates to the supervisory role's SOC code. A mismatch between your credential and the occupation code is a common RFE trigger, so confirm alignment before applying.
Search LCA filings by occupation code
Use Migrate Mate to filter employers by their DOL Labor Condition Application history for engineering supervisor roles, so you target companies with a documented record of sponsoring this specific occupation, not just engineering broadly.
Request the prevailing wage tier upfront
Before accepting an offer, ask which DOL prevailing wage level the employer intends to certify. Level I or II wages for supervisory roles can trigger RFEs, since USCIS expects supervisory positions to align with Level III or IV determinations.
Verify the employer's E-Verify enrollment
H-1B employers must be E-Verify participants. Confirm enrollment before investing time in the interview process. An employer not yet enrolled will need to register before USCIS accepts the petition, which can delay your start date.
Document your supervisory scope in writing
Employers must show USCIS the role genuinely requires a specialty degree, not just general management experience. Get a written job description that details the technical engineering decisions you'll own, not just the headcount you'll supervise.
Time your offer around the April cap window
H-1B cap-subject petitions can only be filed after the annual lottery in March, with an October 1 start date. Negotiate your offer letter to reflect a conditional start date so both parties are aligned before USCIS registration opens.
H-1B Visa Engineering Supervisor: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Engineering Supervisor role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the employer requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific engineering discipline for the position. The role must involve applying theoretical and practical engineering knowledge, not purely administrative oversight. USCIS scrutinizes supervisory titles closely, so the job description needs to demonstrate that engineering expertise is genuinely required to perform the work, not just preferred.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Engineering Supervisor positions?
Manufacturers, aerospace and defense contractors, semiconductor companies, construction firms, and large infrastructure operators regularly sponsor H-1B petitions for engineering supervisors. The most reliable way to identify sponsors is to search verified LCA filing history on Migrate Mate, which shows which employers have filed for this occupation code rather than relying on employer self-reporting.
Can I change employers on H-1B status while working as an Engineering Supervisor?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer as soon as the new I-129 petition is filed, as long as your previous status was lawful and the petition is non-frivolous. The new employer must file a new LCA certified for the work location and SOC code matching your supervisory role before submitting the petition to USCIS.
How does the DOL prevailing wage requirement affect Engineering Supervisor offers?
The employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your specific SOC code, experience level, and work location. Engineering Supervisor roles typically fall under Level III or IV on the DOL wage scale. You can verify the applicable wage using the OFLC Wage Search tool and cross-reference it with Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage data for your metro area.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Engineering Supervisor role is eliminated?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day of employment to find a new H-1B sponsor, change to another valid status, or depart the country. During this window, your new employer can file an H-1B transfer petition and you can begin work once it's filed, not after approval. Acting quickly is critical because the 60-day period doesn't reset with each employer change.