Sr Project Manager

**PMP Certification must**
**Government Utility Industry Experience must (Energy, Electricity, Ex SMUD etc)**
**Candidate must be in California**
Job Description:

**Job Title: Sr Project Manager**
**Exp: 10+ **
**Location: Sacramento, CA – REMOTE**
**Contract**



 
**Job Description-**
**Position Summary**
**The Project Manager delivers medium and standard-complexity projects — day-to-day planning, execution, control, reporting and closure — using the client's lifecycle, templates and governance. This role is focused on strong delivery-management capability: running projects well, maintaining controls, reporting accurately and escalating proactively across a concurrent workload.**
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**Required Qualifications**
• 5–10 years managing IT and/or capital projects in a structured, governed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to run multiple projects concurrently.
• Solid waterfall delivery; hybrid/agile exposure; lifecycle and system-upgrade projects.
• Strong RAID, schedule and change-control discipline.
• Clear written and verbal reporting.
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**Preferred Qualifications**
• Utility-industry project delivery preferred.
• Professional Services (PS) delivery experience preferred.
• Vendor-delivered implementation, modernization and enterprise-system experience.
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**Experience Requirements**
5–10 years of hands-on project delivery, with evidence of managing several concurrent projects to successful completion.
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**Certifications**
**PMP (PMI) strongly preferred, or equivalent globally recognized certification; CAPM or equivalent considered for the lower end of the band.**
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**Technical Skills**
• PPM / project scheduling tools and RAID/artifact management.
• Status and portfolio reporting; document and repository management.
• Change-control and forecast tooling.
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**Soft Skills**
• Organized, detail-oriented and dependable.
• Clear communicator with stakeholders and teams.
• Proactive problem-solver with sound escalation instincts.
• Collaborative team player.
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**Key Responsibilities**
• Manage assigned projects end-to-end: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure within the client's lifecycle.
• Maintain project controls — schedules, baselines, milestones, RAID logs and dependencies.
• Prepare governance materials — status reports, gate submissions, change requests and forecast inputs to client standards.
• Manage stakeholders — project owners, delivery teams and vendors; run project-level governance.
• Support portfolio reporting — provide timely, accurate data into the single portfolio dataset.
• Escalate proactively — raise risks and issues on threshold rather than at the next reporting cycle.