Manager Project Management 2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 System Sector is seeking a Manager Project Management 2 to support our Manufacturing Engineering organization. The leader will join our team of qualified, diverse, individuals on-site in Melbourne, FL.

This position is on-site in Melbourne, FL and cannot be performed remotely due to the nature of the role.

This role will support the Melbourne Manufacturing Engineering Leadership Team. This leader will oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients. The ideal candidate must possess strong leadership abilities, visual data representation techniques, and effective problem-solving capabilities. The selected candidate will be required to develop mechanisms for monitoring performance metrics and for intervention and problem solving with various support groups. They must be knowledgeable of various program life cycles, manufacturing engineering capabilities, scheduling techniques, continuous improvement strategies, compliance requirements, and financial practices to aid in cost and schedule objectives and implement strategic initiatives.

The selected candidate must demonstrate effective communication with various levels of leadership visually and verbally and have the ability to present to executives and various functional organizations as required.

Responsibilities:

• This leadership role will be responsible for the products and services related to overseeing and managing the operational aspects of ongoing projects and over design release areas.

• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.

• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.

• Develop training road maps to solve performance opportunities and coach manufacturing engineers and/or leaders.

• Report status of work to respective customers in written, visual, and verbal formats.

• Analyze multiple data sources, data gathering in detail to identify trends and patterns.

• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement solutions and monitor outcomes.

• Ordering of materials and goods to ensure the on-time delivery of our product.

• Working closely with functional/Program manager to provide direction to maintain production support.

• Develop continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide technical and leadership support to the ME team.

• Build trust within the organization and align team towards a clear set of impactful goals.

• Drive strategic initiatives and tactical actions that deliver results to improve program cost and schedule performance. Ensure program milestones and performance goals are achieved.

• Deliver on short-term, high visibility program requests, while creating a vision and executing a long-term strategy to influence change within and outside the organization.

• Coordinate the development and maintenance of manufacturing schedules and plans to ensure adequate labor, facilities, equipment, tooling, and materials are available on time to ensure customer requirements are met.

• Preparing for, and facilitating, a broad range of functional Manufacturing Engineering organization meetings and events including leading and managing weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews, the senior leadership team’s weekly staff m