IT Project Manager III

Title: IT Project Manager III
Location:  Rosemead, CA, 91770 (Hybrid: Onsite Tu & W)
Duration: 18 Months

Education/Experience:

• Associate Degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Possesses three to five years of experience.
• High School Diploma or Equivalent.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload:

The Junior IT Project Manager will support the Technology Integration team in the planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring of activities for the AMI 2.0 Program. This role will work closely with project managers, technical teams, business stakeholders, and the System Integrator to help maintain project plans, track financials, coordinate resources and activities, manage documentation, and monitor risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables. The role will also support requirements of clarification, solution planning, and project governance to help ensure technical activities and System Integrator deliverables remain aligned with program expectations, milestones, and priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Coordination: Support development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, action items, dependencies, and deliverable tracking across Technology Integration workstreams.
• Financial Tracking: Prepare and maintain financial reports for AMI 2.0 releases, including tracking expenditures, forecasts, variances, and budget updates in coordination with project and technical leadership.
• Resource Planning: Assist with maintaining resource and staffing plans, including roles, skill sets, anticipated effort, timing, and costs across integration, data, infrastructure, and testing workstreams.
• Deliverable Management: Track System Integrator deliverables, review cycles, comments, approvals, due dates, and outstanding actions to ensure timely completion and visibility of status.
• Technical Planning Support: Assist project and technical leads with documenting solution scope, schedules, dependencies, infrastructure needs, data flows, interfaces, environment readiness, testing activities, and deployment preparations.
• Meeting & Action Management: Coordinate meetings and workshops, prepare agendas and meeting materials, capture decisions and action items, and follow up with owners to drive timely closure.
• Requirements & Scope Tracking: Support requirements clarification and maintain traceability between requirements, design decisions, deliverables, and scope. Document potential scope changes and assist with impact assessments and the change control process.
• Change Control Process Support: Support the program's change control process by coordinating, tracking, and reporting on change requests (CRs) from submission through final disposition. Partner with the Project Manager to keep each CR moving through the required IT evaluations so decisions are timely, well documented, and transparent.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Maintain project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; follow up with owners on mitigation actions and escalate items requiring management attention.
• Reporting & Governance: Assist with preparation of status reports, dashboards, meeting materials, decision logs, and other project governance documentation.
• Document Management: Maintain organized project documentation and records to support version control, auditability, compliance, and retention requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Help identify opportunities to improve project tracking, reporting, communication, and coordination across the Technology Integration team.

Required Skills/Attributes:

• 3 years of experience supporting IT projects or large technology programs.
• Working knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, and system integration concepts.
• Experience with project planning, financial tracking, resource coordination, status reporting, and deliverable tracking.
• Utility, AMI, or smart grid experience preferred, but not required.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and risk/issue tracking skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and work effectively across technical and business teams.
• Ability to quickly integrate into a fast-paced, large program, understand their role, absorb information rapidly, and deliver results efficiently with an appropriate level of direction and guidance.
• Detail-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills/Attributes:

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive follow-through and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Adaptable, quick learner, and receptive to feedback.