Staff Engineer Planning Analyst

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance 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 Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Staff Program Planning and Operations Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals within our Research & Advanced Design Engineering, Integration and Execution organization. This position will be full time and located in South Bay, CA (preferred); Rancho Bernardo, CA or Melbourne, FL.

The successful candidate will be required to work closely with the R&AD EI&E Leads to meet all current and projected technical operations and project management needs and challenges, and function as focal point and driver for business metrics, data calls and financial execution to meet current and future RAD program execution needs.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Leads staffing/hiring/redeployment administrative tasks. 

• Represents the R&AD SW, Surv, AVI, T&E, Product Support and VE in Weekly Staffing Meetings.  Strategizes with the Program Leadership Team to implement solutions for all staffing challenges.  Organizes and facilitates weekly functional and program staffing meetings.  Tracks the start dates of incoming candidates.  Ensures POST/Workday entries maintenance and reconciliation.  Reports status to Section Managers and EI&E Leads.  Pulls data, prepares charts, affirms status, projects status and devises go forward plan.  Supports University Relations and Recruiting (UR&R) activities with R&AD UR&R POC.

• Acts as the Resource Manager for the R&AD EI&E.  Performs Office locations/relocations/archibus data entry & validation tasks for new and relocating employees.  Supports onboarding tasks prescribed in Workday.  Leads Provisioning Tasks (computers, phone, badges, wireless).  Assists with arranging loaner laptops for new employees as necessary.

• Performs Security Clearance Submittals and Tracking for new employees.

• Leads development and implementation of employee development strategies and the associated tracking of training activities.  Analyzes Training currency (who, what, when) to ensure that training certifications do not lapse.  Tracks ASTAR certifications and LX mandatory training compliance metrics, and sends out e-mails to employees who are overdue.  Coordinates and reserves training facilities for training classes.

• Performs Facilities/Labs/Infrastructure administrative tasks.  Performs Property Management & Test Equipment Tracking to ensure compliance with required processes and procedures.

• Maintains management and communication of operational cadences.  Tracks spending on BRAVO, Indirect, Capital, and NCTA projects.

• Leads development and implementation of EI&E processes, including the collection, reporting, and analysis of staffing, performance, quality, and other engineering metrics.

• Drive common people processes across RAD Engineering teams; ensure execution of human resource management functions inclusive of staffing fulfillment, redeployment, and release processes; report status including analysis of program staffing, growth, skills projections, and direct labor rates (DLR).

• Coordinate with EI&E leadership team, program, and other functional counterparts to achieve the RAD EI&E annual operating plan (AOP) and long-range goals and objectives

• Provide support to technical training and skills development requirements through coordination and collaboration with CoTE and EI&E teams across RAD Engineering; coordinate skills development initiatives across all Engineering to influence outcomes

• Coordinate proposal functional reviews and approval sign offs by all required RAD and EI&E stakeholders, as applicable

• Coordinate, author, and deliver weekly and monthly status report