Project Management
Posted on: 7 Mar 2021
Palmdale, CA
Job Description
Description
Climb to new heights on your journey when you start Defining Possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful career in aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today. Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Project Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Palmdale, California.
The selected candidate will oversee and manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serve as liaison between the Affordability team and other teams. Candidate must be comfortable interfacing and collaborating with all levels of employees. This individual should possess leadership and team building capabilities and have strong interpersonal skills. Must possess solid organization abilities and be a motivated, flexible team player. Some travel may be required.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
* Overseeing and managing the operational aspects of new and ongoing projects to support program affordability.
* Work side by side with the Affordability Program Manager on all program reporting and executive level presentations.
* Capturing, tracking, and managing meeting action items to closure.
* Creating, maintaining, and updating meeting attendance lists and rhythm.
* Supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of tools/templates for monitoring project progress.
* Tracking status of trade studies and cost reduction initiatives through coordination with project owners.
* Reviewing affordability initiative submittals for completeness and clarity of content.
* Interfacing with Cost Management to verify initiatives have a sound business case.
* Assessing project issues and assisting in developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
Qualification
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree and 3 years of project management/relatedindustry experience or Master's degree and 1 year of project management/relatedindustry experience.
* Proven success managing multiple projects simultaneously
* Microsoft Office skills (Power Point, Word, Excel)
* Active Secret DoD Clearance that was granted or renewedwithin the last 6 years
* The ability to obtain Special Program Access
Preferred Qualifications:
* Aerospace Manufacturing and/or Aerospace Engineeringknowledge
* Previous Project Management (or similar)knowledge/experience
* Knowledge of Project Management principles andexperience, ability to utilize them professionally
* Practice in implementing Lean/Agile principles andmethodologies
* Experience using SharePoint
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
