Principal Technical Services Project Management

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Technical Services Project Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals driving high quality program execution through their direct support and performance as a member of Digital Engineering Ecosystem (DEE). This role is located in Melbourne, FL
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Due to the nature of the role, an on-site presence is required and cannot be performed remotely.

This is an individual contributor, non-manager role with no direct reports.

This position will functionally report to the Program Operations team and deploy to the Digital Engineering Ecosystem.

The successful candidate is expected to be a highly motivated, resourceful, self-starter able to work collaboratively with internal teams and external customers in high-tempo environments. This role will actively work the Digital Engineering Ecosystem (DEE) team and Program leadership to integrate, control, and manage program requirements to ensure success of a restricted program. You will integrate the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serve as liaison between program management, program integration and project teams.

This position will be expected to assist the program with reviewing status of projects and budgets, resource planning, preparing for and facilitating meetings, and supporting various administrative functions tied to the DEE business rhythm. They should be comfortable with applying analytical reasoning skills, identifying continuous improvement opportunities in DEE operations, dealing effectively with change and being a flexible team member, and possess solid organizational abilities.

• Apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts
• Problem solving while working on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious
• Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated. Determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of superior
• Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their development into a final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and effect the image of the organization technological capability
• Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs. Acts as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications
• Governance, policy generation, and documentation with a focus on user group access
• Jira Workflow Management and automations – creating and maintaining the process workflows and automations needed by the program
• Integration – Review and test different 3rd party plugins to meet the needs of the program
• User Management – managing users/groups/permissions within Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, and Cora. Assigning roles and permissions to specified groups/users
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