IT Project Manager - DXR PMO

IT Project Manager V - DXR PMO

Location: Rosemead, CA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid Tuesdays and Wednesdays onsite, and as requested

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 18 months
• Pay Rate: $100.00 $115.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days (First Shift)
• 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

This role is responsible for owning and operating the integrated portfolio workplan within the DXR PMO, supporting a large-scale technology transformation program. The position spans portfolio financial management, governance, risk and issue management, executive communications, and the design of a durable PMO operating model coordinating across business, IT, Finance, Procurement, and multiple delivery vendors to keep a complex, multi-workstream portfolio on track and decision-ready at every governance level.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
• Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the Customer Service view with IT reporting.
• Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
• Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor and contract oversight with Customer Service, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
• Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the existing DXR PMO.
• Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
• Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.

Required Skills

• Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
• Joint business and IT PMO experience.
• Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
• Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
• Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
• Multi-vendor technology-transformation experience.
• Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
• Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.

Preferred Skills

• Utility or other regulated-industry experience.
• Customer-service technology experience, including conversational AI, contact-center platforms, billing, collections, SAP, or related systems.
• Experience mobilizing a new PMO and leaving a sustainable operating model.
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio tools and governance forums comparable to the client's.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on artifact creation.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required.

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. 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, and employs engineers, project managers, data scientists, and operations professionals who are building the energy infrastructure of the next half-century. With an average employee tenure of approximately 20 years and a strong culture of safety, mentorship, and professional development, this is a defining career opportunity for professionals who want to do consequential work powering communities and advancing clean energy.

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: 26-12082 Industry: Operations & Management

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