Sr 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 Mission Systems is looking for you to join our team as a Senior Principal Project Management based out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, Space Force Station.

Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews the 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.

What You’ll get to Do:

• Support of production activities and problems associated with Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Launcher hardware.

• Support Spares, Repairs, and Gas Generator group production activities, as applicable, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Sunnyvale, California, West Virginia, Washington State, Washington DC, and various vendors across the country.

• Support the numerous internal and external meetings by providing Subject Matter Expert inputs and verbally participating in discussions regarding hardware status, cost, schedule, and technical topics.

• Support Basis of Estimate (BOE) proposal generation, Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) support for all assigned tasks, Program Management Review (PMR) monthly chart generation, and Performance Obligation chart generation.

• Work closely with the Operations Program Manager (OPM) to track planned work, project execution, project delays, and manufacturing activities.

• Support Schedule Generation, Reviews & Updates.

• Work closely with Global Supply Chain for procurement of spare components and consumable materials to support repairs.

• Support project Reviews & Updates as required to support Earned Value Management (EVM) activities.

• Coordinate Govt Furnished Material (GFM) with SP22 Navy customer, Logistics, and Sub-Contractors

• Initiate, monitor, and coordinate Intercompany Work Orders (IWO) contracts that are performed by other Northrop Grumman organizations.

• Develop Integrated Product Team (IPT) agenda topics and participate in various customer telecons to discuss and resolve issues of concern.

• Work with Quality Assurance to support the resolution of problems and tracking of hardware through the entire life cycle of the workflow.

• Interface with Global Supply Chain (GSC) to support procurement of spares, completion of repairs, and build -up of Gas Generators.

• Participate in long-term planning activities to support program success.

• Excellent verbal communication skills and comfortable speaking in a group environment with the customer.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office software.

Basic Qualifications Senior Principal Project Management:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant logistics experience; a Master’s Degree with 6 or more years of relevant logistics experience; or a PhD with 4 years of relevant logistics experience.

• Prior experience working with cross-functional organizations (Program Office, Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Business Management, Field Operations, etc.)

• Experience with SAP, ERP (or similar) system, Earned Value Management (EVM), and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance.

• US Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications Senio