Sentinel CS SEIT IFC Milestone Planning Manager

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes.

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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking to hire a SEIT IFC 2.0 Milestone Planning Manager 2 in support of the Sentinel program. This leadership role will be located in Colorado Springs, CO, Huntsville, AL, Roy, UT, or Bellevue, NE. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

As a Manager of the Milestone Planning team, you will be responsible for leading systems engineering execution as the main focal point for Command Systems (CS) program leadership and product team integration into the IFC 2.0 program milestone, which demonstrates system design and performance during the EMD contract. At a minimum, you will oversee and ensure on-schedule development of the CS integrated functional capability architecture model, use cases, requirements, and performance analysis necessary for major milestone demonstration event success.

You will lead the implementation of processes dictating requirements, analysis, architecture, and verification alignment to major program milestones. You will work with both the Program and CS Product Development Teams to develop and mature systems engineering content and artifacts using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methods.

• Act as the CS liaison for the major program event (MPE).
• Ensure major projects, program schedules, and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated.
• Develop metrics to track technical development progress toward meeting major program milestones.
• Track plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, and resolve critical path challenges.
• Ensure the program team understands and adheres to contract scope and manages change through control board activities.
• Be responsible for the management, oversight, and reporting of budget and schedule for IFC 2.0.
• Coordinate and communicate technical execution and risks/mitigations to cross‑discipline teams, government customers, and program leadership.
• Ensure successful execution of technical reviews and readiness for IFC 2.0.
• Develop and adhere to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost and schedule control methodologies and tools.
• Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules.
• Conduct thorough risk and opportunity management practices, including identification, mitigation, and realization.

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine‑hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and a minimum of 8 years of related experience, or master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
• U.S. citizenship with an active U.S. Government Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring within the last 6 years.
• Experience in milestone planning and execution to completion (e.g., Critical Design Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, etc.).
• Experience with requirement development and management.

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