IT Project Manager - AMI 2.0

IT Project Manager - AMI 2.0

Location: Rosemead, CA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid Onsite Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 18 months
• Pay Rate: $16.90 $77.68 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

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 clarification, solution planning, and project governance to help ensure technical activities and System Integrator deliverables remain aligned with program expectations, milestones, and priorities.

Key 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

• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Skills

• Utility, AMI, or smart grid experience preferred, but not required.
• 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.

Education Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent (minimum required)
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Required Experience

• 3 years of experience supporting IT projects or large technology programs.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a major investor-owned electric utility serving approximately 15 million people across a 50,000 square-mile service territory in Central, Coastal, and Southern California one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, with nearly 140 years of continuous operation. The organization is actively leading California's transformation to a net-zero economy, investing in grid modernization, energy storage, transportation electrification, and distributed energy resources, with professionals including engineers, project managers, data scientists, and operations specialists building the infrastructure that will define energy generation and distribution for the next half-century. The average employee tenure is approximately 20 years, reflecting a culture of safety, mentorship, and genuine commitment to professional development across a workforce that values diverse perspectives as essential to innovation.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-16664

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