Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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.

We at Aeronautics Systems are reshaping our Engineering organization to drive stronger execution and faster decision making, while equipping our teams with the processes, tools, and technical training needed to succeed and grow. As a leader in the Product Support Center of Technical Excellence (CoTE) team you will be at the heart of this transformation, driving relentless improvement and ensuring that our technical capabilities stay ahead of emerging challenges and opportunities.

The Aeronautics Engineering organization is seeking a Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning to be the Provisioning Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Support Hardware technical discipline within the newly established Product Support CoTE. This key leadership role reports to the Product Support (PS) Logistics Support Manager S02 and is responsible for defining strategy to elevate technical excellence across the Product Support Hardware technical discipline.

The Product Support CoTE Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning will unite programs, engineers, and technical experts under a shared set of tools, processes, and practices to ensure a consistent, cohesive, and collaborative approach across all AS sector programs. This position partners closely with leads to empower, equip, and train Training professionals to support current program and capture execution, NCTA efforts, and long-term business needs.

The selected candidate must demonstrate deep technical knowledge and expertise in Provisioning to serve at the focal point for Independent Reviews and proposal support.  The Logistics Planner will also support the execution of technical Product Support NCTA projects. The role requires an understanding of the following related Product Support technical disciplines: Prognostic Health Management, Supportable Low Observables (SLO), Technical Data, Support Hardware, Fleet & Field Support, and Product Support Management. They will own processes, tools, and training for the Support Hardware discipline, ensure process excellence and compliance in collaboration with program technical leaders spanning the full product life cycle across the portfolio of NGAS. 

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Support staff development, including skill training and career support; contributing to performance evaluations, overseeing the salary review process, and supervising employee development and mentoring efforts (including engagement strategies for higher performers and corrective actions for lower performers) and issue resolution (as needed)

• Provide leadership and define strategic vision for technical priorities within Support Hardware (Provisioning focus) discipline in the Product Support CoTE, aligned to long-term sector strategy.

• Partner with program discipline leads to understand program critical skill needs and gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training

• Own all technical processes and manuals aligned to the discipline area, ensuring technical excellence and technical compliance

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of new/modified discipline processes with a goal to strengthen technical excellence and workforce capabilities that result in improved business results.

• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of discipline tools, ensuring tools are integrated into the discipline processes, support overall digital solutions, are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs and associated training material to support effective usage

• Develop discipline training framework and technical content to enable a prepared and high performing work force. Develop metrics and monitor training effectiveness in collaboration with program execution teams.

• Collaborate with Sector Integration