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SalaryRequisition ID: R10150305
- Category: Program Management
- Location: El Segundo, California, United States of America
- Citizenship required: United States Citizenship
- Clearance Type: Secret
- Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the Time
- Positions Available: 1
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking an experienced Project Manager/Principal Project Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in El Segundo, CA, with some travel between sites as required.
This Project Management position will support an Integrated Product Team (IPT) on a restricted effort. Teleworking is not available as an option. The overall responsibilities include executable tasks that will enable IPT leadership to achieve operational excellence.
Primary duties will include facilitating cross-IPT and cross-Business Area integration, managing the operational aspects of ongoing projects, and serving as liaison between Sub-IPT managers, IPT employees, and other program Functions.
Regular responsibilities may include the following:
- Supervising and facilitating the Peer Review process and CPATS training compliance
- Support of Staff meetings including meeting facilitation, chart compilation, and action item tracking
- Data aggregation and reporting on charging metrics and financials from MPM data
- Oversight of Change Request process and collection of impacts
- Updates and improvements to team SharePoint site and knowledge base resources
- Scheduling and promoting engagement activities including lunch and learns, team recognition, business area highlights, and composition of periodic highlights for newsletters
- Maintaining organization charts
- Submission and tracking of IPT Program Access Requests (PARs)
- Support of new business proposal writing and team organization
- Assessment of project issues and development of resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Development of mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
- Conduct business travel up to 25% of the time from assigned work location to Palmdale or Rancho Bernardo, CA.
Must be highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and a skilled communicator.
Basic Qualifications for Principal Project Manager:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and 6 years of experience in Project Management, Program Integration/Execution; 4 years with master’s degree
- Current, active DoD [Top Secret / Secret] clearance within [4 – TS / 6 - Secret] years of last investigation / adjudication OR Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD [Top Secret / Secret] security clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access
- Skilled use of Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project)
- Working knowledge of Project Management principles
Basic Qualifications for Project Manager:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and 3 years of experience in Project Management, Program Integration/Execution; 1 year with master's
- Current, active DoD [Top Secret / Secret] clearance within [4 – TS / 6 - Secret] years of last investigation / adjudication OR Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD [Top Secret / Secret] security clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access
- Skilled use of Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project)
- Working knowledge of Project Management principles
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Jira epic to IMS audits
- Current Special Program Access
- Master's Degree
- Project integration experience
- Supplier management experience
- Risk/issue/opportunities (RIO) experience
- Experience in SCIF/SAPF environments
- Control Account Manager (CAM) experience/certification
- Scheduling experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Proposal writing experience
- Experience and ability to autonomously assess complex problems and decompose them into a plan of action while coordinating across a large, diverse team of program, business, and technical SMEs.
- Aerospace and/or Defense Industry Experience
Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
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.
