Manager Programs 2 - Advanced Packaging

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manager Programs 2 to join the Microelectronics Center in Linthicum, MD. You will shape and execute advanced packaging technology development, prototype, and maturation programs, overseeing cost, schedule, and technical performance while coordinating with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.

You will lead Integrated Program Teams across the lifecycle, drive growth opportunities, and participate in bid/proposal activities.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex defense programs or government contracts.
• Strong leadership of cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record in cost, schedule, and technical performance management.

Responsibilities

• Shape, capture, and execute advanced packaging technology development, prototyping, and maturation programs.
• Manage cost, schedule, and technical performance of the program.
• Lead interfaces with internal/external customers, supplier partners, and support organizations.
• Support insertion of technologies into IRAD/CRAD or production programs; identify growth opportunities.
• Participate in bid and proposal activities and interface with technical leadership to identify needs.
• Establish program baselines, manage resources, and deliver program performance.
• Negotiate contracts, changes, budgets, milestones, and key terms and conditions.
• Lead IPTs to meet objectives and present program status to stakeholders.
• Development and adherence to SOW and program requirements.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Cost/schedule/technical performance

EVMS / cost control

Job description

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 Mission Systems (NGMS) Sector is seeking a Manager Programs 2 to join the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC) to support the Foundry, Test, and Advanced Packaging Operating Unit's Advanced Packaging team. The position will be onsite in Linthicum, MD .

For more than 70 years, Northrop Grumman's Microelectronics Center, part of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, has pushed the boundaries in this ever-evolving field of microelectronics. Our U.S.-based, government-trusted foundries and state-of-the-art advanced packaging facilities set the standard, designing and delivering millions of defense and commercial microelectronics components each year. From innovative design to precise fabrication, our mission-tailored solutions provide unparalleled performance, ensuring our technology meets the most demanding challenges.

The Advanced Packaging team develops and deploys next-generation microelectronics packaging technologies for future defense systems. We focus on development, prototyping, maturation, and scaling of advanced packaging technologies to meet the needs of our sectors and their operating divisions.

What You'll Get To Do:

The selected candidate will be responsible for shaping, capture, and execution of advanced packaging technology development, prototyping, and maturation programs. The selected candidate will be responsible for numerous aspects of the program including: managing cost, schedule, and technical performance of the program; leading interfaces with internal and external customers, supplier partners, and company support organizations; supporting insertion of these technologies into other IRAD, CRAD, or production programs; identifying growth opportunities and play significant roles in bid and proposal activities; and interfacing with technical leadership across Northrop Grumman to identify technology needs and timelines to support next-generation systems.

Program Managers are responsible for leading all phases of the program life cycle from inception (proposal development) through startup, execution, and completion (contract closeout). Primary responsibilities are the management of cost, schedule, and technical performance of company programs or subsystems and include, but are not limited to:

• Cultivating customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community.
• Developing new business opportunities through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans.
• Establishing a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub-organizations.
• Leading and directing cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule and technical performance objectives.
• Measuring and reporting program performance.
• Delivering presentations to customers, executive management and other program stakeholders.
• Participating in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions.
• Establishing design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.
• Creation, review and finalization of the program Statement of Work.
• Identification, distribution, tracking, and completion of program requirements.
• Establishment and management of the program and subordinate baselines.
• Development and adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools.
• Identifying, allocating and managing program resources, including workforce planning.
• Managing Government/customer supplied property or information (GFE, CFE, etc.)
• Managing suppliers to meet program objec