Senior AMI & Smart Water Program Manager (Hybrid)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Program Manager, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) & Smart Water to lead large, complex utility programs across the United States. You will set direction, governance, and performance frameworks for successful delivery from pursuit through operations optimization.

The role requires extensive leadership of multidisciplinary teams across engineering, IT, operations, and vendor management, with significant travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, IT, CS, business, construction management, project management, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience delivering large, complex utility technology projects such as AMI/Smart Water programs.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across utility operations, engineering, IT, and customer service functions.
• Experience with AMI deployments, meter modernization, utility digital transformation, or enterprise systems integration.
• Ability to engage effectively with utility executives, regulators, and other key stakeholders.
• Travel up to 50% as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership across the full lifecycle of major AMI and Smart Water programs, from pursuits to closeout.
• Establish governance, assurance, and performance frameworks aligned with objectives, regulatory requirements, cybersecurity, and best practices.
• Direct and integrate senior leaders across utility operations, engineering, IT, systems integration, customer service, change management, and construction management.
• Oversee AMI system deployment, networks, MDMS integration, CIS/billing interfaces, customer portals, and analytics platforms.
• Ensure program-wide alignment with customer experience, revenue protection, water loss reduction, sustainability, resilience, and efficiency.
• Provide senior commercial oversight including procurement strategy, vendor management, contract administration, risk management, and financial governance.
• Act as the principal contact for utility clients, technology providers, regulators, delivery partners, and executives.
• Champion innovation, digital transformation, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement across utility organizations.
• Support pursuits including capture planning, proposal strategy, client interviews, and transition from award to delivery.
• Support organizational change management for adoption of new technologies, processes, and digital capabilities.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

PgMP / PMP certification

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Job description

AECOM is seeking a Program Manager, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) & Smart Water to lead large, complex utility programs across the United States. You will set direction, governance, and performance frameworks for successful delivery from pursuit through operations optimization.

The role requires extensive leadership of multidisciplinary teams across engineering, IT, operations, and vendor management, with significant travel.