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. 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. The pay rate for this position is $65.10/hr.