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Director Project Management 1

Northrop Grumman

FLME587, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Apr 2025

💰 $269,400/yr($155,100/yr – $269,400/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Director Project Management 1 within the Strike Division. This position will be located in Palmdale, CA or Melbourne, FL.

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels. This role is a vital member of the leadership team, which by nature of the position involves high-level contacts and exposure to sensitive programs, new business, personnel, and technical information necessitating considerable use of tact, diplomacy, discretion, and judgment.

This Director will support the Program Management Office supporting both proposal development and program execution efforts across the business area. The Director must be able to switch between strategic proposal activities into execution issue resolution activities between IPTs seamlessly. In addition, this role drives horizontal and vertical integration action between the IPTs to ensure the health of our people, processes and tools are being addressed in our programs. This role ensures risks, issues and critical actions are being addressed down into the organization. This role will also support the top-level development of strategies in alignment with the programs to create IPT level Long Range Strategic Plan (LRSP), Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and the corresponding investment requirements needed, e.g. Capital and NCTA. This role will take on special assignments based on the proposal and change occurring on the program. This position will have full exposure to the breadth of complexity found in portfolio management as it will navigate the program through concurrent program life cycle phases.

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree and 10 years’ experience in project and/or program management, or a Master’s degree and 8 years’ experience in project and/or program management
Prior Management / leadership experience
Lead proposals – including through division / sector sign-off reviews (i.e. NAR/ICE, C0-011)
Experience with LRSP/AOP
Demonstrated understanding of program risk, opportunity and issue management process
Active in-scope DOD Secret Clearance last investigated within 6 years and the ability to obtain and maintain Program Access (PAR) within reasonable time as determined by business needs

Preferred Qualifications: