Principal/Sr Principal Project Management

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Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Tactical Programs (ATP) Operating Unit (OU), operating within the Air Dominance and Strike Business Unit, Airborne Multifunction Sensors (AMS) Division, is offering a unique opportunity for employees to jump-start their careers in program management in the Project Management field. This position will be located in Baltimore, Maryland. We are looking to hire several project management professionals across multiple bands.

The ATP OU is one of the fastest growing programs in the AMS Division and has a unique range of cutting-edge technology programs spanning development and production, while operating in a challenging and fast-paced environment to bring needed capability to the warfighter.

Position Summary/Responsibilities:

Serves as liaison between Program management and planning, technical managers, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with program managers, line managers, and customers. 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.
• Ensures implementation of new processes and implements process improvement changes.
• Capturing, tracking and managing meeting action items to closure.
• Creating, maintaining, and updating meeting attendance lists and rhythm.
• Supports Risk and Opportunity management of the IPT and program.
• Performing as Scrum Master for Agile team execution.
• Performing/Assisting as Cost Account Manager with Technical IPT lead.
• Adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost and schedule control methodologies and tools.
• Managing Government/Customer supplied property or information (GFE/CFE, etc).
• Management of suppliers to meet program objectives.
• 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 at the Principal Level:

• Bachelor’s degree, 6-9 years’ experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management in other industries. Or 4-7 years with Master's Degree. 4 additional years experience in lieu of a college degree.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications
• The ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools and processes to the benefit of program decisions, actions and performance.
• The ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shard, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program stakeholder needs.
• The ability to identify and address program impacts through systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
• The ability to monitor/control program plans, cost and schedule baselines that meet both program contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or higher (granted or renewed within the last 6 years) and ability to obtain special access clearances.

Basic Qualifications at the Sr. Principal Level:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years’ experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management in other industries. Or 8+ years with Master’s Degree. 4 years additional experience in lieu of a college degree.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications
• The ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools and processes to the benefit of program decisions, actions and performance.
• The ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shard, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program stakeholder needs.
• The ability to identify and address program impacts through systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
• The ability to monitor/control program plans, cost and schedule baselines that meet both program contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Active DoD Secret clearance or higher (granted or renewed within the last 6 years) and ability to obtain special access clearances.

Salary Range: $80,100 USD - $120,100 USD

Salary Range 2: $99,200 USD - $148,800 USD

Employees may be eligible for 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. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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