Manager Programs 2 - Capital & Facilities

Northrop Grumman, Mission Systems (NGMS) is looking for a Manager, Programs Level 2 to support the Microelectronics Designs and Applications (MDA) in the Microelectronics Center in Annapolis Junction or Linthicum, MD. The individual will be part of a rapidly growing business area focused on groundbreaking technologies and their application to critical customer missions. The primary objective will be the delivery of all contractual requirements within cost and on schedule, while achieving all technical requirements and creating customer intimacy to support value creation strategies and actions.

The NGMC pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines the leading edge of exotic new technologies in computation, physics, and AI. One of our most challenging new fields is the Microelectronics Designs and Applications (MDA) Business Area (BA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. Our team is chartered to transform computing beyond Moore’s Law, advancing development of computer architectures, processing/memory subsystems, and large-scale high performance computing systems. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside a broad array of scientists and engineers to make these processing solutions a reality and deliver remarkable new advantages to the warfighter.

The MDA is seeking a Program Manager to serve as the Business Area’s focal person for facility growth across the BA. This individual will work across all business area programs to understand current and expected growth areas, seating, laboratory, and manufacturing facility needs. The Program Managers are responsible for the cost, schedule and technical performance of the facility programs. This manager will need to be able to communicate plans and progress to others across the organization including executive level briefings on metrics with associated progress on facility growth across the business area. The growth in this area will be in multiple locations in the US and across a wide range of engineering and science disciplines, including, systems, software, architecture, design, test, physics, and materials science.

Key roles and responsibilities include the following:

• Serve as the focal point for MDA capital projections across all programs.
• Work with other program managers, security, and technical leads to understand and document the facility requirements.
• Collaborate with facilities, global supply chain, business management, maintenance department on all MDA projects to ensure they meet needs and requirements of the BA.
• Participate in and support technical design reviews and/or facilitate vendor support of design reviews.
• Successfully lead multiple facility projects and track cost and schedule.
• Provide guidance for schedules to ensure ability to achieve BA business and technical objectives.
• Strong leader capable of pulling together effective meetings with peers and stakeholders to collect feedback, assess gaps, define best practices and best path forward.
• Thorough risk & opportunity management to include identification, mitigation and realization.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• This position may also include other program management activities associated with efficiently running the MDA.
• Create and maintain financial plans for multiple facility projects.
• May require travel 20% or more to MDA locations across the U.S.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years', Master's Degree and 7+, or a PhD and 4+ years of experience supporting Government contracts and/or project management in other industries.
• Demonstrated success leading teams/and or organizations to achieve a common goal.
• Experienced technical leader with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Proven experience defining, monitoring, and controlling program requirements as applicable.
• Experience identifying, analyzing, tracking, and reporting on risk and opportunities.
• Experience managing priorities and stakeholders effectively in an environment of constant change.
• Ability to update and analyze financial data from a variety of sources.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness/ability to obtain and maintain an Active PMP (Project Management Professional), PgMP (Program Management Professional) Certification, and/or Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level 3 certification in Program Management.
• US Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph.
• Active PMP Certified.
• Earned Value Management experience.
• Demonstrated success leading high performance teams as technical, integrated product team, and/or functional leader.
• Experience in facilities and/or general contracting.
• Ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business models (commercial and defense) and financial concepts, tools and processes to drive performance and profitability.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.