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Staff Project Manager

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Project Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals in our Systems Engineering organization. This role is located onsite in Rancho Bernardo. CA, El Segundo, CA or Palmdale, CA.

• Maintain an integrated staffing plan for assigned programs/IPTs aligned to contract scope, WBS, budgets, and key milestones (e.g., PDR, CDR, TRR).
• Consolidate 6-12 month staffing demand from CAMs/IPT leads and functional managers by skill set, labor category, grade, and clearance.
• Regularly update staffing demand based on changes in scope, schedule, or funding and highlight gaps or surpluses to program and functional leadership.

• Coordinate assignment of internal engineers (transfers, rotations, redeployments) to open positions within the program in partnership with functional managers.
• Track onboarding for new hires and transfers (clearance, equipment, system access, required training) and escalate issues that delay full productivity or impact schedule.
• Ensure position assignments, labor categories, and charge numbers are accurately reflected in staffing tools and trackers.

• Monitor program staffing mix (skills, grades, labor categories) against baseline plans and contractual requirements.
• Identify over/under-qualification or misaligned labor category usage and coordinate corrective actions with functional leadership and program finance.
• Support optimization of skill mix to balance technical capability, cost, and schedule performance.

• Maintain position-level visibility of clearance and access requirements for the assigned program/IPTs.
• Coordinate with Security on investigations, upgrades, and visit/access needs; track status against required need dates.
• Identify clearance-driven risks and communicate potential impacts to program leadership.

• Maintain program-level staffing trackers and dashboards (open reqs, fill status, clearance pipeline, utilization or coverage risks).
• Prepare and present staffing status, trends, and risks for program reviews (PPRs, IPRs, EAC reviews) and other leadership forums.
• Identify staffing-related risks and issues (skills gaps, single points of failure, aging vacancies, clearance delays); document them in the risk/issue registers and track mitigation actions such as cross-training and backfill plans.

• Execute established staffing processes, trackers, and templates defined by the engineering organization and sector.
• Recommend and implement local improvements to reduce cycle time, improve data quality, and enhance coordination across CAMs/IPT leads, functional managers, and Talent Acquisition.

• Strong analytical and Excel/data skills and the ability to develop and maintain staffing trackers and dashboards.
• Effective collaboration and communication with program leadership, functional managers, Talent Acquisition, HR, and Security.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing and presenting status to leadership.
• Strong prioritization and…