Job Title: IT Project Manager IV

Work Location: Rosemead CA 91770

Job Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temp Assignment

Work Mode: Onsite

Working Hours: Mon-Fri 8 am to 5 pm PST

Pay Rate: $88.46-$102.00/hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The Client is a leading electric utility in the United States, serving millions of customers across central, coastal, and Southern California. The Company provides electricity transmission and distribution services, supporting residential, commercial, and industrial customers across the region. It focuses on grid modernization, energy management, and infrastructure reliability to ensure consistent power delivery. The Client also drives clean energy adoption, electrification initiatives, and wildfire mitigation efforts, serving customers across its service territory.

Description:

Job duties may include:

• Preventing power surges; ensuring that the right amount of energy is distributed; operating power-generating equipment; measuring power flow with gauges, meters, and charts; and maintaining generators, turbines, and other equipment.

Education/Experience:

• Associate Degree in applicable profession, business, or technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience; possesses seven to ten years of experience.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload:

The IT Project Manager for the AMI 2.0 Program will support various phases of the project lifecycle, including planning, execution, monitoring, and project closure for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure initiative. This position is responsible for coordinating project tasks, tracking progress, scheduling meetings, and assisting with documentation and reporting. The Project Manager will help facilitate business process mapping and gather requirements to ensure alignment with functional needs and technical delivery. Responsibilities include maintaining project schedules, monitoring task completion, supporting team communication, and coordinating with vendors under supervision. The candidate will assist in preparing resource plans, tracking effort and cost estimates across integration, data, infrastructure, and testing workstreams, and supporting solution design activities. Support development and maintenance of integrated project plans, schedules, 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 escalate risks to senior leadership as needed. Ensure traceability between requirements, design, and deliverables.

Required Skills/Attributes:

• Broad IT infrastructure knowledge — ability to see the “big picture” and ensure no gaps in delivery.
• Project management experience with managing and supporting large enterprise initiatives, supporting in the areas of scope, schedule, budget, management of risks and issues, and deliverable management process.
• Strong analytical skills, able to develop dashboards and reports using excel and other analytics tools.
• Experience managing large IT projects, solution blueprinting, implementation planning, and overall end-to-end delivery management.
• Demonstrates strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership engagement.
• Ability to quickly integrate into a fast-paced, large program, understand their role, absorb information rapidly, and deliver results efficiently with appropriate level of direction and guidance.
• Strong blend of business insight and technical proficiency to bridge the gap between stakeholder needs and technological solutions.
• Proficiency in utilizing data sets (MS Excel & Pivot Tables at minimum) to create and analyze information.
• Ability to personally execute day-to-day PM deliverables, in addition to overseeing and delegation. Must be adaptable, open to feedback, and able to take on other responsibilities as assigned.

Desired Skills/Attributes:

• Experience with AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) smart grid, or large Electric Utility technology and infrastructure projects: AMI 1.0 or 2.0 recommended (at minimum some 1.0 exposure).
• Experience with system integrations (MDMS, head-end systems, OMS, SAP, ADMS).
• Familiarity with cloud migration/implementation experience (moving from on-prem to cloud).
• Experience delivering/developing technical information to a non-technical audience.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, computer science, or other business-related disciplines (including liberal arts majors).

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.