Senior Principal Project Manager (Secret-Cleared)

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Annual bonuses

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in San Diego, CA, seeks a Sr. Principal Project Manager to support the ACN Operating Unit within NIC Division. On-site role requiring a Secret clearance, with negotiated salary and a strong emphasis on cross-functional program management.

The selected candidate will manage schedules, budgets, and IPT coordination, ensuring on-time, compliant, and high-quality deliverables. US citizenship and active clearance are mandatory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities.
• 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.
• Must have an active U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher (granted or renewed within the last 6 years) to be considered and the ability to obtain special access clearances upon starting.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Working side by side with the Program Manager and 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.
• Adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost and schedule control methodologies and tools.
• 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.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional coordination

Budget management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

MS Project

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Office

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in San Diego, CA, seeks a Sr. Principal Project Manager to support the ACN Operating Unit within NIC Division. On-site role requiring a Secret clearance, with negotiated salary and a strong emphasis on cross-functional program management.

The selected candidate will manage schedules, budgets, and IPT coordination, ensuring on-time, compliant, and high-quality deliverables. US citizenship and active clearance are mandatory.