IT PROJECT MANAGER

LOCATION: Rosemead, CA – Hybrid (Onsite Tuesday and Wednesday)

SCHEDULE: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM

DURATION: 18-month contract

PAY: 72-77 USD per hour

Job Responsibilities:

In this role, you will support the Technology Integration team in planning, coordinating, executing, and monitoring activities for the AMI 2.0 Program. You will work closely with project managers, technical teams, business stakeholders, and the System Integrator to track project schedules, financials, resources, deliverables, and risks. Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and deliverable tracking.
• Tracking project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, variances, and financial updates.
• Assisting with resource planning and staffing coordination across integration, data, infrastructure, and testing workstreams.
• Monitoring System Integrator deliverables, review cycles, approvals, deadlines, and outstanding actions.
• Supporting technical planning, including solution scope, infrastructure requirements, data flows, interfaces, testing, and deployment readiness.
• Coordinating meetings and workshops, preparing agendas, documenting decisions, and following up on action items.
• Tracking project requirements, scope changes, and change requests throughout the approval process.
• Maintaining risk, issue, assumption, and dependency logs and escalating items requiring management attention.
• Preparing project status reports, dashboards, decision logs, and governance documentation.
• Maintaining organized project records to support version control, auditability, compliance, and document retention.
• Identifying opportunities to improve project tracking, reporting, communication, and coordination across the Technology Integration team.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Assist project managers with day-to-day project coordination and execution across multiple Technology Integration workstreams.
• Maintain project schedules, milestones, action items, dependencies, and deliverable trackers to ensure progress remains aligned with program objectives.
• Prepare and update financial reports for AMI 2.0 releases, including expenditures, forecasts, budget updates, and variances.
• Coordinate resource and staffing plans by tracking required roles, skill sets, effort, timing, and costs.
• Track System Integrator deliverables from submission through review, feedback, approval, and completion.
• Support technical leads with documenting solution requirements, system interfaces, data flows, infrastructure needs, environment readiness, testing activities, and deployment preparations.
• Coordinate project meetings, workshops, and stakeholder discussions; document decisions, assign action items, and follow up with responsible owners.
• Maintain requirements traceability between business needs, design decisions, project deliverables, and scope.
• Coordinate change requests (CRs) through the change control process, ensuring requests are documented, evaluated, tracked, and routed for timely decisions.
• Maintain risk, issue, assumption, and dependency logs and follow up on mitigation plans and resolution activities.
• Assist with identifying potential project delays, scope changes, resource constraints, and delivery risks.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, governance materials, and management updates to support project visibility and decision-making.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and records in accordance with program procedures.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to resolve coordination issues and keep activities moving forward.
• Quickly learn program processes, understand assigned responsibilities, and deliver results in a fast-paced, large-scale technology environment.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Working knowledge of IT project management, project planning, and technology program coordination.
• Understanding of IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and system integration concepts.
• Experience with project schedules, milestone tracking, budget monitoring, financial reporting, and resource coordination.
• Ability to track deliverables, dependencies, action items, risks, issues, and change requests.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to coordinate across technical teams, business stakeholders, project managers, and external System Integrators.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, adaptable, and capable of learning new processes and technical concepts quickly.
• Ability to work independently with appropriate direction and guidance.
• Familiarity with project governance, documentation standards, version control, and change management processes.
• Utility, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), or smart grid experience is preferred but not required.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects, technology initiatives, or large-scale programs.
• Experience with project planning, financial tracking, resource coordination, status reporting, and deliverable management.
• Working knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, and system integration concepts.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing project documentation is preferred.
• Utility, AMI, or smart grid program experience is a plus.
• Associate degree in an applicable business, technical, or professional discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience, may be considered.

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