Principal Project Management

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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Project Manager to join our Stike team. The selected candidate will be part of Program Integration Team.

Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, 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 project managers, line managers, and clients.

This onsite project management position will support an Integrated Product Team (IPT) on a restricted effort in Palmdale, CA or Rancho Bernardo, CA, with some travel between those two sites. The overall responsibilities include executable tasks that will enable IPT leadership to achieve operational excellence.

Primary duties will include facilitating cross-IPT and cross-Business Area integration, managing the operational aspects of ongoing projects, and serving as liaison between Sub-IPT managers, IPT employees, and other program Functions and IPTs.

Regular responsibilities may include the following:

• Supervising and facilitating the Peer Review process and CPATS training compliance
• Support of IPT Staff meetings including meeting facilitation, chart compilation, and action item tracking
• Data aggregation and reporting on IPT charging metrics and financials from MPM data
• Oversight of Change Request process and collection of impacts
• Updates and improvements to team SharePoint site and knowledge base resources
• Scheduling and promoting IPT engagement activities including lunch and learns, team recognition, business area highlights, and composition of periodic IPT highlights for newsletters
• Maintaining organization charts
• Submission and tracking of IPT Program Access Requests (PARs)
• Support of new business proposal writing and team organization
• Assessment of project issues and development of resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Development of mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Conduct business travel up to 25% of the time from assigned work location to Palmdale or Rancho Bernardo, CA.

Must be highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and a skilled communicator.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and 6 years’ experience in Project Management, Program Integration/Execution OR Master's degree with 4 years experience in Project Management, Program Integration/Execution
• Skilled use of Microsoft Office Products
• Working knowledge of Project Management principles
• Active DoD Secret Clearance within 4 years of last investigation/adjudication
• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Special Program Access
• Active DoD Top Secret Clearance within 4 years of last investigation / adjudication 
• Master's Degree
• Project integration experience
• Experience Risk/issue/opportunities-
• Experience in SCIF/SAPF environments
• experience/certification- Control Account Manager (CAM)
• Project Management Professional Certification
• Proposal writing experience
• Aerospace and/or Defense Industry Experience

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Salary range: $86,300 - $129,500

This position reports to Palmdale, CA, USA, however, this position can also be worked from San Diego, CA, CA, USA.

Salary Range: $86,300 USD - $129,500 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/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.