Project Manager : Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Location: Jersey
Salary: Negotiable Depending on Experience
Overview:
We are recruiting for an experienced Project Manager that has had a previous track record on advanced metering infrastructure, this is an exciting role that will ead the end:to:end delivery of the organisations AMI 2.0 implementation, acting as the client:side owner for scope, schedule, governance, and deployment coordination across all phases: design, implementation, testing, pilot, rollout, and stabilisation.
This role is accountable for orchestrating cross:functional delivery across Metering, IT, Finance, Customer Care, Service Delivery, and external suppliers, ensuring that the AMI solution is implemented safely, compliantly, and predictably in line with operational, regulatory, and customer obligations.
The position exists to translate vendor delivery models, technical designs, testing regimes, and field deployment activities into outcomes that are fully operable by the utility. It provides clear ownership for decision:making, risk management, and change control on the client side, including managing impacts and dependencies arising from other Smart Upgrade initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for day:to:day project cost control and forecasting across AMI implementation phases
* Manages client:side delivery budgets associated with AMI rollout (people, logistics, training, deployment support)
* Supports CapEx and OpEx planning and benefits realisation tracking
* Ensures rigorous change control to protect cost, scope, and schedule
* Lead client:side AMI 2.0 delivery in line with the agreed implementation model, phase gates, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
* Coordinate internal teams and external suppliers to ensure effective sequencing, resourcing, governance, and delivery of design, build, integration, testing, and deployment activities.
* Own and manage the master project schedule, dependencies, and critical path across all delivery phases, including dual HES operational periods.
* Identify and manage delivery risks (technical, operational, safety, customer, reputational), implement mitigations, and operate formal change control processes.
* Involved in testing and Ensure fulfilment of client:side responsibilities across FAT, SIT, UAT, and SAT, including preparation, resourcing, evidence review, and formal acceptance decisions.
* Oversee installation sequencing, installer capacity, logistics readiness, and site access planning in collaboration with Service Delivery and contractors.
* Act as the primary coordination point between internal stakeholders and the AMI supplier project team, ensuring clarity of expectations, decisions, and escalation routes.
* Ensure operational processes, documentation, training, and support models are in place for a controlled transition into steady:state operations.
* Embed health, safety, and environmental requirements into all project and field activities, treating safety as the primary delivery constraint.
Experience, knowledge, and qualifications:
Essential Experience:
* Proven delivery of complex, multi:year infrastructure or systems projects
* Experience coordinating cross:functional teams in regulated or safety:critical environments
* Strong working knowledge of project governance, risk management, and change control
* Experience managing vendors and suppliers under formal contractual arrangements
* Working knowledge of database:driven systems and integrations
Desirable Experience:
* Utility, energy, or infrastructure sector experience
* Large:scale system implementations with field deployment components
* Experience working within formal testing and acceptance frameworks
Qualifications:
* Degree or equivalent professional experience in engineering, project management, or a related discipline
* Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, PMP) desirable
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