Project Manager, AMI

About the role

E Source is a research, data/analytics, and technology focused professional services firm dedicated to the utility industry in the US and Canada. We assist utilities in enhancing their grid, serving customers more effectively, and leveraging best practices and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex utility technology initiatives for electric, gas, and water clients.
  • Engagements may include AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) feasibility studies, business cases, planning, procurement, implementation, and deployment support.
  • Plan and coordinate projects from initiation through implementation, balancing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, vendors, and client expectations.
  • Manage project risks, issues, decisions, actions, assumptions, and changes, driving timely resolution and escalation as appropriate.
  • Facilitate project meetings, executive updates, workshops, and cross-functional working sessions.
  • Monitor vendor performance and contractual commitments, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and acceptance activities.
  • Carefully coordinate across AMI workstreams such as meter and network deployment, systems integration, testing, data readiness, operational readiness, and customer-facing activities.
  • Provide clear, decision-oriented reporting on project status, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and upcoming decisions.
  • Maintain effective project documentation and governance, while building trusted client relationships and identifying opportunities to provide additional value.
  • Forecast project resource needs and maintain resource bookings, and monitor project financial performance to support accurate, timely monthly client invoicing and revenue forecasting.

Requirements

• Five or more years of project or program management experience within the utility industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting an advanced metering infrastructure implementation for an electric, gas, or water utility.
• Experience managing complex project schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, changes, and executive reporting.
• Proficiency with project-management tools and Microsoft Office applications.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Qualifications

• Bring strong facilitation skills and can communicate effectively with executives, technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and field personnel.
• Identify emerging project challenges, develop practical courses of action, facilitate decisions, and drive issues through resolution.
• Work as an effective bridge between business, operational, and technical teams.
• Comfortable working independently in environments where all information may not yet be available, and can maintain momentum across complex initiatives.
• Work effectively in hybrid, virtual, and in-person environments, collaborating with geographically distributed client and project teams.

Skills

• PMP or comparable project-management certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or comparable scheduling tools.
• Experience across multiple phases of the AMI lifecycle.

Benefits

Excellent insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans, and paid parental leave.

A flexible time off (FTO) policy that provides paid time away from work, approved by your manager, while ensuring business needs, workload commitments, and appropriate coverage are maintained.

A 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match.

Pay

The budgeted salary for this position is $140,000 – $170,000 USD + annual bonus. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.

Schedule

This role is remote when not traveling to client sites. Travel is dependent on project and client needs (up to 50%).