Project Management/Principal Project Management

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

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 Systems (NGAS) has an opening for a Project Management/Principal Project Management professional to support our Triton Program located in San Diego, CA.

Under direction and leadership of the Triton Program Integration Team Manager and assigned IPT Lead, this role will lead the project management and program integration activities across the team. It is important that the IPT Program Integrator engages in the program’s rhythms, be able to keep up with changing circumstances and motivates the IPT’s team to achieve common goals for the benefit of the program.

IPT Program Integrator will work closely with the Program Integration Team and IPT Lead to drive IPT efficiency and resolve operational gaps.   This role is responsible to ensure alignment of the program rhythms within the IPT planning, executing, monitoring, and developing program reporting to support efficiencies within the IPT and ultimately first-time quality products. This role needs to ensure that the team operates smoothly and produces deliverables that are on time and on budget as stated and planned by program.

It is critical to monitor progress, deadlines, schedules and any EVMS requirements (as applicable) as they are critical tasks that feed into the program status reporting for the Customer. IPT Program Integrator will be assigned specific areas within the team that require close collaboration with the technical leads to manage and support EVMS reporting. This includes the management risks and opportunities within the IPT.

The IPT Program Integrator builds relationships and communicates closely with the Program Planning Manager, PIT Managers, Business Managers, Program Managers, IPT’s and Functional Leads thus ensuring the integrity of the program baseline for that IPT and effectively meets the team’s commitments and program’s financial goals.

The Roles and Responsibilities of the Integrated Team Lead include but are not limited to:

• This role is responsible for maintaining vertically and horizontally program requirements, SOW updates, Risk Mitigation Plans management, and overall operations
• Ensure seamless communication within the IPT for effective program execution
• Support Program Operations leadership to ensure that enterprise service and homeroom organizations have an integrated infrastructure plan that meets program needs, monitor the implementation of the plans, and cause needed corrective action when needed
• Support the IPT to ensure Earned Value Management System (EVMS), where applicable, is properly maintain as well as status of projects, resources, budgets; manage schedules and prepares status reports
• Develop solutions to increase productivity, quality and meet Customer’s requirements
• Develop new metrics, IPT’s onboarding and training management, process documentation, team engagement initiatives, and other special projects will likely be required at the discretion of the IPT Lead
• Lead the proposal estimates at the IPT’s discretion, participates during the proposal reviews, negotiations, ensures that historical data is appropriate and captures all required approvals within the IPT
• Ensure the export protocols are followed within the IPT
• Demonstrated understanding of program risk, opportunity and issue management process
• Experience managing NCTA/Capital project execution and operations
• Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously - schedule management, cost/budget management

The Ideal Candidate must have excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills, be able to establish a solid working relationship with technical staff, peers, and customers, have exceptional analytical, strategic, and critical thinking skills, ability to prioritize and complete and/or coordinate multiple tasks within critical deadlines, and