Job Title: Senior Program Manager
Duration: 2 months
Location: Fremont, CA 94538
Key Responsibilities
- Engage daily with field technicians and material leads to develop, implement, and refine workflows for gas and electric meter check-in and check-out processes.
- Partner with the software vendor to update the application based on technician feedback, field observations, and evolving workflow needs.
- Ensure passive RFID readers, antennas, and mobile readers remain in good working order; coordinate with internal and external partners to identify continuous improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate with metering OEMs to ship new meters with RFID labels through Crawl, Walk and Run phase approach.
- Serve as backup to another Program Manager overseeing contractors responsible for auditing and RFID tagging existing issued meters systemwide.
- Support RFP-related activities as needed.
- Take ownership of aggressive, high-impact milestones across the crawl, walk, and run phases of the project.
- Apply strong program management practices, including clear communication, forward planning, follow-up, meeting documentation, risk tracking, and stakeholder alignment.
- Safety
- Maintain an absolute commitment to personal and co-worker safety. Proactively identify and resolve unsafe conditions and promote safety awareness and education across the team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Exceptional analytical and technical ability
- Proficiency with Excel, Power BI, and other reporting tools
- Ability to manage time-sensitive priorities
- Track record of meeting or exceeding business commitments
- Experience in change management
- Strong initiative, teamwork, accountability for results, customer focus, and sound judgment
- Project, program management, or engineering experience
Desired Qualifications
- Professional Engineer license or Project Management Professional certification
- Five years of post-graduate engineering or project management experience
- Operations experience and new technology deployment experience
- Ability to motivate others and create enthusiasm for project goals.
- Excellent presentation and organizational skills in a collaborative environment.
- Self-starter who can work effectively with minimal oversight.
- Completes moderate to complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions plan and goals.
- Works independently on most issues.
- Provides direction on overall program plan and goals.
- Responsible for most/all deliverables within the program implementation plan.
- Communicates findings and recommendations to various levels of management.
- Develops budget forecasts, conducts analysis in support of identifying budget variances and develops solutions to address.
- Develops new and ad-hoc reports, summarizes findings and recommendations and provides business insight.
Education
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
Experience
- 6 years of related experience or equivalent
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Desired
* Advanced knowledge of Program Management
* Ability to communicate findings and recommendations to various levels of management.
* Ability to effectively manage multiple projects with demanding time constraints.
* Knowledge and understanding of business drivers.
* Demonstrated ability to manage or direct teams
* Ability to work within a Regulatory environment
* Ability to assess and recommend solutions for assigned projects
Knowledge of energy industry applications to local level customers, including energy issues, customer energy efficiency applications, and general customer information.
Desired
* Primarily office environment with extensive use of personal computers, telephone conversations, conference calls and in person meetings.
Travel may be required.
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