Water & Electricity Meter Delivery Project Manager

Salary: RMB 25–30k per month, negotiable (base + performance)

Mandarin + English mandatory.

About the role

The company delivers smart water and electricity meter (AMI) turnkey projects in Brazil. We are bidding on a new electricity meter tender and building our own delivery team. You will own on-site delivery from plan to acceptance and handover.

Responsibilities

• Manage full delivery of smart water and electricity meter turnkey projects: plan, schedule, cost, quality and risk
• Coordinate with the owner, supervisor, local subcontractors, logistics and customs; align supply chain, hardware/software and commercial teams internally
• Lead installation, commissioning, network setup and platform integration; drive data-collection success rate and fix on-site technical issues
• Manage local subcontractors: work standards, quantities and contract compliance
• Organise acceptance, as-built documents and payment milestones; deliver O&M training and warranty handover
• Identify overseas compliance, logistics and labour risks; build delivery SOPs
• Support the pre-sales (LTO) phase with delivery plans and risk analysis

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, automation, mechatronics, telecom or related
• 5+ years delivering smart electricity meter, water meter or AMI remote-reading projects, including turnkey project management
• Hands-on with smart meters, concentrators, PLC/RF data collection and metering platform integration
• Strong control of schedule, cost and risk; familiar with overseas construction, acceptance and variation processes
• English as a working language (meetings and project documents)
• Willing to accept short overseas trips and long on-site assignments

Nice to have

• PMP certificate
• Portuguese
• Smart metering turnkey projects in Brazil or Latin America
• Knowledge of overseas customs, local labour law and compliance
• Experience with power, water or operator clients

Package & benefits

• Base salary + performance bonus, plus overseas allowance and year-end bonus
• Housing provided in São Paulo (shared apartment, private room and bathroom)
• Two-day weekend; 1–2 trips home per year, each with 1–1.5 months of paid leave
• Return flights, social insurance and housing fund in China, overseas accident insurance
• Business travel reimbursed in full
• Join a new delivery team being built now, with a clear career path