Engineering Project Mgmt; EPM Department Senior Manager - R10190670-2

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCITRAVEL:
Yes, 25% 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 looking for a Functional Department Manager to join the Tactical Space Systems Division (TSSD) Engineering Project Management (EPM) Directorate. This Senior Manager role will be based in Dulles, VA and will lead a department supporting the Space Security Business Unit of TSSD, including front-line managers, Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads, and technical individual contributors with Control Account Management (CAM) duties.

The Senior Manager receives general strategic, business, and administrative direction from the Director of Engineering Project Management and has authority to make engineering project management decisions and recommendations that have an impact on new business, program performance, design, development roadmaps, and mission operations for their assigned mission portfolio.

In addition to performing Functional Management duties, the selected candidate is expected to be mostly self-directed and leverage previous technical experience to create and tailor training, processes, and tools to empower and lead the technical team across a portfolio of programs and spacecraft bus product lines to deliver on our commitments while meeting cost, schedule and technical performance. The position includes an anticipated time split between functional/personnel leadership duties (75%) and direct work in support of programs (25%) and will be responsible for the following:

• Lead the technical-staff planning, assignments, career development, compensation planning and performance management for the assigned EPM department.
• Lead coordination of Engineering activities, including pre-proposal analysis, proposal development, baseline development, execution to the plan, problem resolution and customer interactions.
• Support the development and review of engineering cost estimates and schedules to capture new business opportunities, including review of technical and cost volumes, detailed Basis of Estimates (BOEs).
• Identify EPM, IPT Lead, and CAM skills & experience needed for program engineering execution and participate in the recruiting, hiring and training of new staff.
• Ensure that the EPM staff adhere to their Statements of Work (SOWs), deliver robust engineering products and meet all program engineering requirements, within technical, cost and schedule requirements.
• Ensure that the EPM staff coordinate cross-functionally with Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing to adhere to a design to cost approach throughout procurement and build operations.
• Ensure that the EPM staff adhere to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards.
• Functional personnel management of an EPM Department and front line EPM managers.
• Travel is expected between 10%-25%.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have U.S. Citizenship with Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Existing Space Security program accesses.
• Bachelors Degree and 10 years of applicable technical experience, or a Masters Degree plus 8 years of applicable experience, with a minimum of 2 years of functional management experience.
• 2 years of demonstrated success in Project Management roles such as CAM, IPT Lead, Program Manager, or Engineering Program Manager/Lead to include earned value management (EVM).
• Experience with at least one phase of the lifecycle of spacecraft development, build, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• STEM Degree.
• Experience with the full lifecycle of spacecraft development, build, and operations.
• Functional engineering management in aerospace.
• Personnel Development:
  Personnel development, performance assessments, mentoring and conflict resolution.
• Communications:
  The ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that department and program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets stakeholder needs.
• Issue & Problem Resolution:
  The ability to identify and proactively address organizational and program impacts through a systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and…