AMI Project Manager; Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Location: Rosemead, CA, Hybrid/ Remote

Contract: Long term contract

Title: IT Project Manager – AMI 2.0 Program

• Support various phases of the project lifecycle, including planning, execution, monitoring, and project closure for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure initiative.
• Coordinate project tasks, track progress, schedule meetings, and assist with documentation and reporting.
• Facilitate business process mapping and gather requirements to ensure alignment with functional needs and technical delivery.
• Maintain project schedules, monitor task completion, support team communication, and coordinate with vendors under supervision.
• Assist in preparing resource plans, tracking effort and cost estimates across integration, data, infrastructure, and testing work streams, and support solution design activities.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, and work‑breakdown structures.
• Coordinate project activities across technical and business teams to ensure alignment with milestones and deliverables.
• Track scope against baseline requirements and support change control process, document scope changes, assess impacts, and elevate risks to senior leadership as needed.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, design, and deliverables.
• Execute day‑to‑day PM deliverables, oversee delegation, and adapt to fast‑paced program demands.

• Minimum 5 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, computer science, or related disciplines.
• Broad IT infrastructure knowledge with an ability to see the big picture and identify delivery gaps.
• Project‑management experience supporting large enterprise initiatives, including scope, schedule, budget, risk and issue management, and deliverable management.
• Strong analytical skills, including developing dashboards and reports using Excel and other analytics tools.
• Experience managing large IT projects, solution blueprinting, implementation planning, and end‑to‑end delivery management.
• Excellent communication, problem‑solving, and cross‑functional leadership engagement.
• Ability to quickly integrate into a fast‑paced, large program, understand roles, absorb information rapidly, and deliver results efficiently with appropriate direction.
• Blend of business insight and technical proficiency to bridge stakeholder needs and technological solutions.
• Proficiency in utilizing data sets (Excel & pivot tables minimum) to create and analyze information.
• Adaptability, openness to feedback, and willingness to take on additional responsibilities as assigned.

• Experience with AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) smart grid or large electric‑utility technology and infrastructure projects (AMI 1.0 or 2.0).
• Experience with system integrations (MDMS, head‑end systems, OMS, SAP, ADMS).
• Familiarity with cloud migration/implementation (moving from on‑prem to cloud).
• Experience delivering/developing technical information to a non‑technical audience.