Program Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE TYPE:
None 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.

An organization within Northrop Grumman’s Intelligence Systems division’s Mission Enabling Products is seeking a highly qualified, mission-oriented Program Manager 2 for their Propulsion Operations in Commerce, CA. We are the leading supplier of pressure vessels for space missions in the world. At the facility we produce a wide variety of pressure vessels supporting a wide variety of missions, both foreign and domestic, commercial, defense, and civil space.

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The primary objective 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. Responsible for leading all phases of the program life cycle from inception (proposal development) through startup, execution, and completion (contract closeout).

• Manage cost, schedule, and technical performance of company programs or subsystems
• Cultivate customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community
• Develop new business opportunities through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans
• Establish a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub-organizations
• Lead and direct cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule and technical performance objectives
• Measure and report program performance
• Deliver presentations to customers, executive management and other program stakeholders
• Participate in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions.
• Establish design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.
• Create, review and finalization of the program Statement of Work
• Identify, distribute, track, and complete program requirements
• Establish and manage the program and subordinate baselines
• Develop and adhere to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools
• Identify, allocate and manage program resources, including workforce planning
• Manage Government/customer supplied property or information (GFE, CFE, etc.)
• Manage suppliers to meet program objectives.
• Adhere to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards
• Ensure program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manages change through control board activities
• Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules
• Conduct thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation and realization

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in the Space Industry; OR 8 years experience with a Master's degree
• 2 years of experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements as either project lead,…