Associate Project Management (Ability to Obtain a Clearance)
Posted on: 6 Feb 2021
Lanham, MD
Job Description
Description
Embark on a career putting innovative amp; reliable products into space. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the company.
We have a dynamic and diverse team that provides design to launch engineering and manufacturing capabilities. We design, build and test space avionic hardware and develop ground support equipment (GSE) that supports our environmental testing and integrations services. As an Associate Project Manager, you will be involved from conceptual design through final drawings, working with various engineering disciplines and customers to track the fabrication process through delivery.
This position requires directly interfacing with the Customer, Program Management, Business Management, Engineering, Manufacturing Support teams including Production, Production Control, and Quality to develop, support, and manage detailed schedules and overall production objectives and execution. This position will also represent NG at all program and customer reviews; developing and presenting status, data, metrics and charts. You will be responsible for developing mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with other project managers, line managers, and clients. This position will be located in Lanham, MD.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will have strong teambuilding skills, exhibit strong leadership potential, and possess comprehensive verbal and written communication/presentation skills.
Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
bull; Initiating sales orders for purchase requisitions for sub-assemblies based on bill-of-material or drawings or configuration
bull; Track material shortages for sub-assemblies based on bill-of-material or drawings or configuration.
bull; Highlight to management critical part shortages that will jeopardize delivery schedule
bull; Have an understanding of manufacturing capacity to meet build plan commitments
bull; Effectively communicate and report status, issues, and highlights
Qualification
Basic Qualifications:
- A Bachelor 39;s degree (prefer 1 year of experience in engineering or manufacturing)
- Proficient in MS Office applications, including Excel, Word, Project amp; Power Point
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance per business requirements (US citizenship required)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cost, schedule, project leadership, and/or process improvement.
- Active Secret clearance TS/SCI or able to obtain one.
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, VA
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a security company, provides products in the areas of autonomous systems, cyber, space, strikes, and logistics and modernizations in the United States, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Innovation Systems, Mission Systems, and Technology Services. The Aerospace Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces manned aircrafts, autonomous systems, spacecraft systems, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics, and other systems and sub-systems for use in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, strike operations, communications, earth observations, and space science.
The Innovation Systems segment designs, develops, integrates, and produces flights, armaments, and space systems. It offers launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile products and defense electronics; precision weapons, armament systems, and ammunitions; satellites and associated space components and services; and advanced aerospace structures. The Mission Systems segment offers products and services that include C4ISR systems; radar, electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), and acoustic sensors; electronic warfare systems; cyber solutions; space systems; intelligence processing systems; air and missile defense integration systems; navigation systems; and shipboard missiles and encapsulated payload launch systems.
The Technology Services segment provides logistic solutions that supports the full life cycle of platforms and systems. Its products and services include software and system sustainment; modernization of platform and associated subsystems; advanced training solutions; and integrated logistics support. Northrop Grumman Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.
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IndustryAerospace and Defense
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No. of Employees85,000
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Jobs Posted6018
