Senior GIS Project Manager

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: Clientis located in New Jersey with an office in South Plainfield. Candidatemust be local and able to gointo 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 integrationimpacts.
• 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.