SkillBridge - Sr Principal Project Management

Sr. Principal Project Manager

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 Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Sr. Principal Project Manager to join our team in Palmdale, CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) construct.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Identify, orchestrate, coordinate, and control the program management activities for the IPT.
• Oversee cost and schedule performance for complex technical projects for a wide range of systems and technologies.
• Develop and adhere to the budget baseline using the Earn Value Management (EVM) processes, including the development of discrete work packages, providing weekly status of IMS tasks, and providing input to monthly Estimate at Complete (EAC) updates.
• Initiate, develop, integrate, and execute cost and schedule baselines as well as technical performance baselines that satisfy program contractual requirements.
• Support the Risk, Issue, and Opportunity process to proactively address potential challenges.
• Oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects while serving as the key liaison between project management and planning, the project team, and line management. Reviewing project statuses and budgets, managing schedules, and preparing status reports.
• Craft mechanisms to monitor project progress and facilitating timely and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients will be essential.
• Manage Taskable Engineering (TE)/proposal development, which includes overseeing the process, writing proposal responses, and collaborating with contracts and pricing teams.
• Develop compelling content and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects with tools such as PowerPoint, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence and Excel.
• Drive action item adjudication collaboratively with the operating unit team, Enterprise, and Customer.
• Lead the execution of Contractual Deliverable (CDRL) commitments and ensure their on-time or early delivery to the customer.
• Drive innovation in proposal strategy by challenging conventional approaches, aligning proposals with customer needs, and ensuring our responses set benchmarks for excellence.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD and 4 years of related engineering experience.
• Control Account Manager (CAM) experience
• Project Management experience within the Defense industry or within similar technical fields
• Skilled use of Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project)
• Working knowledge of Project Management principles
• Active USG Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access via a Program Access Request (PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Note:
  
  SAP/PAR will be upgraded once selected candidate is in role. Therefore, candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain upgraded SAP/PAR.)

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