Project Manager

4 days ago


Goleta, California, United States Northrop Grumman Full time
Job Title: Project Manager 2

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Project Manager 2 to support our Program Management group in our Goleta, CA, facility. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing key programs within the Goleta business portfolio, including antennas for aircraft, naval, and space applications.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Serves as liaison between program management and cross-functional engineering teams during proposal, design, procurement, manufacturing, test, and delivery phases of products
  • Works with the Program Management team to establish milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules
  • Foresees and identifies potential problems and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives
  • Reviews and manages budgets and schedules, including Earned Value Management System (EVMS), critical path management, Estimates-at-Completion (EACs), and workload forecasts
  • Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives
  • Participates in failure root cause analysis and corrective actions as needed
  • Transitions designs to manufacturing, working with the technical team to identify ways to streamline manufacturing and assembly processes
  • Supports proposal development for change orders and new business and capture and strategic planning
  • Develops customer and supplier relationships to facilitate open communications about project requirements and supplier capabilities

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical discipline with 2 years of Project Management experience or experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule and as either project lead, integrated program team lead; OR one year of experience with a master's degree
  • Experience supporting customers in a project/technical lead role
  • Ability to communicate with multiple levels of the organization having excellent presentation skills
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
  • Proven analytical, technical, strategic and problem-solving skills
  • Highly proficient in MS Office Suite and MS Project
  • U.S. Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of Program or Project Management experience or similar (e.g. Lead IPT (Integrated Product Team), or Lead NPT (New Product Team) or Systems Engineering lead)
  • Experience with earned value management
  • Aerospace or defense industry experience
  • Familiarity with Antennas and RF Engineering
  • Program execution experience
  • Gated design development experience (PDR, CDR)
  • US Government security clearance or ability to get a security clearance

Working Environment & Physical Demands:

  • Travel to customer site up to 5-10% of the time both domestic and international as required

Salary Range: $72,100 - $108,100

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.

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.


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