Principal / Sr Principal Project Manager

United States-California-Sunnyvalesenior

OperationsProject Manager

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Key Responsibilities

Serves as liaison between client Program management and planning, technical leads, and functional management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.

Requirements Summary

Serves as liaison between client Program management and planning, technical leads, and fun

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OperationsProject Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Responsibilities

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Serves as liaison between client Program management and planning, technical leads, and functional management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and stakeholder-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving. Potential job duties may also include, but are not limited to:

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Working side by side with the Program Manager and Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads on all program reporting and executive level presentations.
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Ensuring that IPT processes and products result in quality, compliant, affordable, and on-time deliverables that achieve customer satisfaction.
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Supports Risk and Opportunity management of the IPT and program.
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Ensures implementation of new processes and implements process improvement changes.
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Creating, maintaining, and updating meeting attendance lists, minutes and rhythm.
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Capturing, tracking and managing meeting action items to closure.
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Managing Government/Customer supplied property or information (GFE/CFE, etc).
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Adherence to all internal processes, policies and applicable industry standards.
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Ensuring IPT understands and adheres to contract scope and manages change through control board activities.
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Development and adherence to plans and schedules.

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Project Manager level or a Sr. Principal Project Manager level.

Requirements

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Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ or a master's degree with at least 1 year of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities. Additional 4 years of directly related professional work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Experience in Material Procurement or Supply Chain management
Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documentation, PowerPoint for executive and customer/stakeholder briefings, and MS project for schedule development and tracking.
Demonstrated experience applying business and financial management principles supporting program or project execution, including cost account management, financial tracking, forecasting or performance reporting.
Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-functional teams supporting project and program deliverables.
Experience supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities, including risk identification, tracking, mitigation planning, or reporting.
Experience supporting monitoring and control of program plans, cost and schedule baselines to support contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations/deliverable.
Superior attention to detail with focus on customer satisfaction.
US Citizenship required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Bachelor’s degree with 8 years’ or a master’s degree with 6 years of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities. Additional 6 years of directly related professional work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documentation, PowerPoint for executive and customer/stakeholder briefings, and MS project for schedule development and tracking.
Demonstrated experience applying business and financial management principles supporting program or project execution, including cost account management, financial tracking, forecasting or performance reporting.
Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-functional teams supporting project and program deliverables.
Experience supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities, including risk identification, tracking, mitigation planning, or reporting.
Experience supporting monitoring and control of program plans, cost and schedule baselines to support contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations/deliverable.
US Citizenship required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Experience using SAP, ERP1/ERP2
Experience developing proposals
Experience supporting DoD / Government contracts
Advanced to Expert level MS Office Software Suite skills with emphasis on MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project

Primary Level Salary Range: $94,200.00 - $141,200.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $117,500.00 - $176,300.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

United States-California-Sunnyvale

On-site at the office

Who can apply

Same as job location

About this job

Pay per year: $94,200–$141,200 a year; 13% below the $135,000 median for Project Manager jobs on Jobera (3,416 salaries).
Posted: 5 days ago
Employer: has 6,275 open jobs on Jobera.