Principal / Sr Principal Project Manager

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 94,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Principal Project Manager to lead the MLS program. You will manage cost, schedule, and deliverables while guiding cross-functional teams and maintaining customer intimacy to support value creation.

This role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance. Experience with government contracts, risk management, and financial tracking is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ or master’s with 1 year relevant PM experience on U.S. government contracts.
• Experience in Material Procurement or Supply Chain management.
• Experience applying business and financial management principles to programs.
• Coordination across multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with risk and opportunity management and scheduling.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional IPT teams to meet program performance goals.
• Manage budgets, schedules, and deliverables; prepare status reports.
• Interface with client program management and executives for reporting.
• Oversee change control, risk tracking, and process improvements.
• Ensure compliance with contract scope and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

MS Project

MS Excel

MS Word

PowerPoint

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No 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), Marine Systems is seeking a Principal Project Manager or Sr. Principal Project Manager for the Marine Logistics Support (MLS) Program within the Launcher Operating Unit onsite in Sunnyvale, CA. The primary responsibility of the Principal Project Manager 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. The Project Manager is the primary customer point of contact for spares and repairs, reporting to the MLS Program Manager.

What You'll Get to Do:

Serves as liaison between client Program management and planning, technical leads, and functional management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and stakeholder-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving.

Potential job duties may also include, but are not limited to:

• Working side by side with the Program Manager and Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads on all program reporting and executive level presentations.
• Ensuring that IPT processes and products result in quality, compliant, affordable, and on-time deliverables that achieve customer satisfaction.
• Supports Risk and Opportunity management of the IPT and program.
• Ensures implementation of new processes and implements process improvement changes.
• Creating, maintaining, and updating meeting attendance lists, minutes and rhythm.
• Capturing, tracking and managing meeting action items to closure.
• Managing Government/Customer supplied property or information (GFE/CFE, etc).
• Adherence to all internal processes, policies and applicable industry standards.
• Ensuring IPT understands and adheres to contract scope and manages change through control board activities.
• Development and adherence to plans and schedules.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Project Manager Level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ or a master's degree with at least 1 year of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities. Additional 4 years of directly related professional work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in Material Procurement or Supply Chain management
• Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documentation, PowerPoint for executive and customer/stakeholder briefings, and MS project for schedule development and tracking.
• Demonstrated experience applying business and financial management principles supporting program or project execution, including cost account management, financial tracking, forecasting or performance reporting.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-functional teams supporting project and program deliverables.
• Experience supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities, including risk identification, tracking, mitigation planning, or reporting.
• Experience supporting monitoring and control of program plans, cost and schedule baselines to support contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations/deliverable.
• Superior attention to detail with focus on customer satisfaction.
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Basic Qualifications for SR Principal Project Manager Level 4:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years’ or a master’s degree with 6 years of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities. Additional 6 years of directly related professional work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documentation, PowerPoint for executive and customer/stakeholder briefings, and MS project for schedule development and tracking.
• Demonstrated experience applying business and financial management principles supporting program or project execution, including cost account management, financial tracking, forecasting or performance reporting.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-functional teams supporting project and program deliverables.
• Experience supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities, including risk identification, tracking, mitigation planning, or reporting.
• Experience supporting monitoring and control of program plans, cost and schedule baselines to support contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations/deliverable.
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using SAP, ERP1/ERP2
• Experience developing proposals
• Experience supporting DoD / Government contracts
• Advanced to Expert level MS Office Software Suite skills with emphasis on MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project

Primary Level Salary Range:

• $94,200.00 - $141,200.00

Secondary Level Salary Range:

• $117,500.00 - $176,300.00

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.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Benefits:

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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