Manufacturing Business Operations - Level 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available. CLEARANCE TYPE:
None. 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’s Space Sector is seeking a Manufacturing Business Operations – Level 3 to join our team in Dulles, VA. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

This is a critical role that provides comprehensive support for proposals, baselines, CEACs, and metrics to manage manufacturing cost performance. This role is essential for program execution, planning, and performance management, with a strong emphasis on risk identification, historical data analysis, and predictive performance to meet evolving business needs.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

• Support the OPM organization, Manufacturing, and Programs in all aspects of cost performance management
• Contribute and support proposals, baselines, CEACs, and the development and tracking of key metrics
• Provide expertise in program execution, planning, and performance management
• Identify and assess risks, leveraging historical data and predictive analytics to inform decision-making
• Maintain and improve tools and templates to ensure quality, producibility, and process compliance for program execution and monitoring
• Align with industry standards and internal guidelines, emphasizing cost management, program support, risk analysis, and data‑driven decision‑making
• Identify and incorporate tool advancements for cost performance (e.g., Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools)
• Track plans and schedules
• Create, maintain and validate schedule data
• Perform risk analysis and management
• Identify and resolve critical path and network logic conflicts
• Utilize Gantt, milestone charts, Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances
• Support manufacturing’s ownership of budgets and cost accounting (CAM activities), as well as evaluate and provide critical earned value metrics for manufacturing leadership to ensure production is scaling and efficient
• Identify cost reduction opportunities based on current manufacturing processes
• Work closely with the Manufacturing Engineering team as well as the Industrial Engineering teams to ensure metric accuracy and consistency across all manufacturing in Dulles and Gilbert
• Direct or indirectly manage manufacturing CAMs who are dedicated to specific programs running through the manufacturing work centers

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
• Experience leading people and/or project management
• Experience collaborating across teams and business units
• Experience with SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and MS Office applications including Excel, Word, and Power Point
• Experience and understanding of manufacturing standards and cost…