Project Management/Principal Project Management

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

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 Project Management/Principal Project Management.  The selected candidate will be part of the Program Integration Team supporting onsite in Edwards AFB, CA.

The overall responsibilities include executable tasks that will enable leadership to achieve operational excellence.

 Seeking a team player who will oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serve as a liaison between project management and planning, project team, and program leadership. 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. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.  Able to facilitate and act as the subject matter expert on program risk, issue, and opportunity reporting. 

Key roles and responsibilities:

•  Review status of projects and budgets, manage schedules, and prepare status reports
• Assessment of project issues and development of resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Manage deliverables to internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate program risks, issues, and opportunities meetings and reporting
• Support and lead role for new business proposal writing and team organization
• Facilitate internal and customer meetings including meeting logistics, presentation material templates, collection, and content generation, meeting attendance for on-site integration, action item tracking, and post-meeting follow-up
• Maintaining organization charts
• SharePoint curation
• Conduct business travel up to 25% of the time
• Must be highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and a skilled communicator

Basic Qualifications for Project Management:

• Bachelor’s degree or 2 years’ experience in project management, OR Master’s degree
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with and manipulating detail-oriented data
• Must be able to obtain a Secret level clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Project Management:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ experience in project management, OR Master’s degree with 3 years’ experience in project management
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• At least 2 years of experience leading a project and/or driving performance against schedule
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with and manipulating detail-oriented data
• Must be able to obtain a Secret level clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Special Program Access
• Project integration experience
• Supplier management 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

Primary Level Salary Range: $75,800.00