Principal Production Operations Lead

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Plan

Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Education Assistance

Training and Development

9/80 Work Schedule

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Production Operations to lead manufacturing teams on a multi-million dollar naval program in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on ensuring on-time, on-budget execution and guiding manufacturing issues to resolution.

You will coordinate with functional groups, manage risk and EVMS, and drive progress against the program baseline while acting as a key point of contact within manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience; OR a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Secret Clearance.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Resolve manufacturing issues by working with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate responses with functional organizations to keep projects on schedule.
• Propose, plan/baseline, and execute to the performance management baseline.
• Perform risk and opportunity management functions for the manufacturing scope in concert with the overall program RSKOM.
• Perform EVMS and cost account management functions.
• Resolve material, manpower, and machine issues to ensure successful manufacturing performance.
• Travel as required (generally less than 10%).

Skills

Earned Value Management

Project Management

PMP certification

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Production Operations to lead manufacturing teams on a multi-million dollar naval program in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on ensuring on-time, on-budget execution and guiding manufacturing issues to resolution.

You will coordinate with functional groups, manage risk and EVMS, and drive progress against the program baseline while acting as a key point of contact within manufacturing.