Project Management or Principal Project Management; Tech Ops Lead

Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance Requirement: Yes

Clearance Type: Secret

Travel: Yes, 10% of the time.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Project Management or Principal Project Management (Tech Ops Lead) to lead engineering technical operations for the Strike Division. The role is based at our Melbourne, FL or Palmdale, CA sites and is not remote.

The successful candidate will execute and integrate engineering homeroom operations, including estimating, strategy, and resource planning, reporting and presenting to senior leadership. The position requires strong organizational, interpersonal and mandatory mandatory not mandatory mandatory mandates mandatory mandatory mandations mandatory mandatory mandatory mandates mandatory mandatory mandities mandatory mandatory mandatory.

• Facilitation of meetings, resulting actions, and deliverables, including those with senior leadership.
• Drive common people processes across Engineering teams; ensure execution of human resource management functions, reporting status, and providing analysis of staffing, growth, skills projections, and direct labor rates.
• Coordinate with homeroom, program, and other functional counterparts to achieve the Engineering annual operating plan and long‑range goals.
• Provide guidance on technical training and skills development initiatives across Engineering and coordinate broader initiatives.
• Coordinate proposal functional reviews and approval sign‑offs by the VP of Engineering or Chief Engineers.
• Coordinate, author, and deliver weekly and monthly status reports to sector Engineering and the division.
• Execute projects in support of engineering as tasked by the VP of Engineering.

Project Management (Level
2)

• Bachelor’s degree AND 2 years of related professional/military experience in engineering or project/program operations, OR a Master’s degree AND 0 years of related professional/military experience in engineering or project/program operations.
• Experience in developing and managing processes across large organizations.
• Active U.S. government Secret clearance (or higher) granted or renewed within the last 6 years or under continuous evaluation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR) as determined by business needs.
• Use of Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and SharePoint.

Principal Project Management (Level
3)

• Bachelor’s degree AND 5 years of related professional/military experience in engineering or project/program operations, OR a Master’s degree AND 3 years of related professional/military experience.
• Experience in developing and managing processes across large organizations.
• Active U.S. government Secret clearance