We have an outstanding Contract position for a Senior GIS Project Manager to join a leading Company located in the South Plainfield, NJ surrounding area.
Pay Rate: $63.13
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a GIS upgrade initiative. This role will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering project activities in alignment with clients' PMO standards.
Location: Client is located in New Jersey with an office in South Plainfield. Candidate must be local and able to go into the office 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, which include IT (OT, Testing, Infrastructure, Cyber Security, etc), Line of Business (Electric Operations, Asset Management, Projects & Constructions), and external partners.
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of project scope, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, documentation, and quality objectives are met.
- Coordinate and govern activities performed by the system integrator, including task planning, deliverable reviews, issue resolution, and change control.
- Ensure project execution follows the client's EPMO methodologies, standards, templates, and reporting requirements.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, RAID logs, status reports, and executive communications.
- Facilitate working sessions, design reviews, and decision forums related to GIS data modeling, workflows, and integration impacts.
- Partner with SMEs to validate modeling approaches, data standards, and implementation readiness.
- Identify project risks and dependencies related to data quality, system integration, resource availability, and cutover activities.
- Manage project communications and ensure alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
- Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, and report monthly accruals.
Basic Hiring Criteria:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management, Business Administration, or another related field required with 10+ years of project management experience.
- PMP certification required.
- Must be local to NJ and have the ability to come to the office - main reporting location to be South Plainfield, NJ.
Desired Qualifications:
- Utility background (electric, gas, or combined).
- Basic understanding of OT systems (GIS, ADMS, SCADA, OMS).
- Strong understanding of project management fundamentals (scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, contracts).
- Experience leading diverse teams of technical disciplines and support.
- Experience supporting system upgrades, migrations, or platform modernization efforts.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) across a diverse stakeholder group.
- Ability to perform stakeholder management.
- Risk and issue management.
- Technical project coordination.
- Vendor management skills.
- Quality assurance and governance.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced and complex environment.
- Strong skills using Microsoft product tools and PPM tools.
- Excellent customer-facing skills.
- Excellent decision-making and organizational skills are required.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.