Manager of Information Technology

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None 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 is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Information Technology to join its dynamic team of technical professionals. The successful candidate will create an inclusive culture in a geographically diverse environment providing strong leadership and clear communication to manufacturing operations representatives to enable a highly functioning and digitally enabled factory.

This position will be located in Linthicum, Maryland and will not allow for a telecommuting arrangement.

This position will oversee staff at four locations, Linthicum, MD;
Charlottesville, VA;
Salt Lake City, UT; and Woodland Hills, CA. As such, the selected candidate will be excellent at communicating and working with team members remotely. The manager position will oversee projects and team members providing shop floor IT and application support for a variety of tools used in manufacturing operations. Tools supported range from custom in-house developed software, to commercial off the shelf applications, to PC and manufacturing equipment hardware used across a diverse landscape of manufacturing environments.

This will be a dual role of functional and project management.

• Direct supervision/management of 15 team members supporting manufacturing operations software and hardware systems
• Interact with NGMS users on variety of matters—tactical and strategic--related to IT systems and solutions that impact manufacturing operations.
• Lead ongoing continuous improvement efforts to improve existing internal processes and integration with other teams

• Manage of product lifecycle through ideation to retirement including interfacing with customer to determine timeline and roadmap and high-level technical and system integration requirements
• Facilitate review and prioritization of customer requests for enhancements or fixes of existing software applications, considering long-term objectives and product roadmap
• Manage of long-term initiatives in support of the shop floor and disaster recovery and reporting progress to leadership
• Work with Cybersecurity to review/renew Information Systems Security Plans (ISSPs) for a number of unclass environments in the Linthicum facility
• Guide team members in career path, identifying and assigning stretch assignments, communicating growth areas

-Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 5 years of experience

• Experience with software engineering, the SDLC, and managing customer requirements
• Experience with IT support
• Experience in manufacturing
• Experience with Agile practices and managing agile teams
• Experience managing geographically diverse technical groups servicing multiple customers

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manager of Manufacturing Information Technology to join its dynamic team of technical professionals. The successful candidate will create an inclusive culture in a geographically diverse environment providing strong leadership and clear communication to…