AMI Project Manager

Trident Consulting is seeking a " AMI Project Manager” for one of our clients in " Rosemead, CA (Hybrid-Tue & Wed)” A global leader in business and technology services.

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Title: AMI Project Manager

Location: Rosemead, CA (Hybrid-Tue & Wed)

Type: Contract

Duration: 16+ Months

Pay rate: $77/hr on W2 (All inclusive)

Day-to-Day Responsibilities / Workload

The Junior IT Project Manager will support the Technology Integration team in planning, coordinating, executing, and monitoring activities for the AMI 2.0 Program. This role will work closely with project managers, technical teams, business stakeholders, and the System Integrator to 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 ensure technical activities and System Integrator deliverables remain aligned with program expectations, milestones, and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Coordination: Support the 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 change requests (CRs) from submission through final disposition. Partner with the Project Manager to ensure each CR progresses through the required IT evaluations and that 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 preparing 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.
• Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and risk/issue tracking skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and work effectively across technical and business teams.
• Ability to integrate quickly into a fast-paced, large program, understand responsibilities, absorb information rapidly, and deliver results efficiently with an appropriate level of direction and guidance.
• Detail-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.

Education Requirement

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills / Attributes

• Utility, AMI, or smart grid experience.
• 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.

About Trident Consulting

Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.