Manager Programs 2 - Radford VA

VetJobs; Radford (VA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Radford, VA seeks a Program Manager Level 2 to lead a cross‑functional team in delivering contracts on cost and on schedule. The role emphasizes customer intimacy, risk management, and adherence to program baselines within a dynamic defense environment.

The candidate will drive planning, budgeting, and performance reviews, including proposals and subcontract coordination across internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and extensive experience with U.S. Government contracts or project management in related fields.
• Experience leading programs on schedule and within cost targets with cross‑functional teams.
• DoD security clearance eligibility is required.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate customer relationships to develop further opportunities within the customer community.
• Lead cross-functional Integrated Program Teams to meet cost, schedule, and technical objectives.
• Manage program performance and report progress to stakeholders.
• Negotiate contracts, changes, and key terms; maintain master plans and baselines.
• Develop budgets and use Earned Value Management or equivalent tools.
• Identify risks and opportunities and implement mitigation actions.
• Guide proposal strategy and coordinate responses to RFPs and reviews.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Pricing & proposals

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 10 years experience in DoD or similar

Master’s degree in STEM + 7 years

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Description

Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

Job ID

R10251157

Relocation Assistance

No relocation assistance available

Clearance Required for Start

No

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’s Defense Systems sector location located in Radford, VA is currently seeking a Program Manager Level 2 to support our growing business.

The primary objective will be the delivery of all contractual requirements on cost and on schedule, while achieving all technical requirements and creating customer intimacy to support value creation strategies and actions. The individual will lead a cross-functional organization aligned to common program performance goals.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Establishment of 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 objectives.
• Adherence to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards
• Ensuring program team understands and adheres to contract scope and manages change through control board activities.
• Development and adherence to master plans and schedules.
• Conducting thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation, and realization

Auto req ID

483640BR

Minimum Education Required

High School/GED

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Desired Attributes:

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to manage a project team daily and communicate effectively with segment leadership regarding status, awareness, and escalations.
• Ability to manage projects to specified milestones and established schedules.
• Ability to resolve disputes and negotiate with positive outcome while maintaining good relationships within the organization, specifically between peers and management.
• Ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs.
• Ability to identify and address program impacts through a systematic, proactive approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
• Ability to define proposal strategy, lead proposal teams, analyze and shape RFPs, produce and deliver winning proposals, effectively track, and incorporate Review Team comments and findings, and manage post-proposal submittals (orals, finding responses)
• Ability to address program uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling plans, and manages, controls, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the program.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years (or Bachelor of Science in STEM and 9 years), OR a Master’s degree and 8 years (or Master of Science in STEM and 7 years) experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in other industries
• 6 years of experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements as either project lead, integrated program team or cost account manager
• 6 years of demonstrated success leading teams/and or organizations to achieve a common goal
• Competency in Project Management skills and toolsets
• Knowledge of pricing and proposals
• Competent in standard Microsoft Office Suite (i.e. PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Must be able to obtain a DoD security clearance (US Citizenship is a requirement)

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical understanding of ammunition products, ability to discuss ballistic performance of products with customer and modify products to meet customer needs (i.e. pressure, velocity, dispersion, clean burning, etc.)
• Ability to manage technical staff responsible for manufacturing and R&D of ammunition products, including the development of product technical data package. Technical management experience.
• Working knowledge of the sporting ammunition industry standards.
• Working knowledge of the domestic and international sporting ammunition customer base.
• Experience working on commercial program and international customers.
• A degree in a science, engineering, or a business program
• Experience in the aerospace/defense industry or within the Department of Defense or NASA
• PMP® certification Experience
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, Agile methodologies
• Ability to define technical strategy to promote capturing business in new areas.
• Experience in managing multiple programs.

Primary Level Salary Range

$139,100.00 - $208,700.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

City

Radford

State

Virginia

Job Category

Facilities Management

Job Code

Manufacturing Manufacturing

Affiliate Sponsor

Northrop Grumman