About This Role
This role involves supporting the Ground Segment program within the Space sector, focusing on the development, integration, testing, and deployment of ground segments for National Space Assets. The Deputy Program Manager will assist with all aspects of programmatics across multiple initiatives to expand existing capabilities and provide insights into the broader Space Awareness community. The primary objective is to deliver contractual requirements on cost and schedule while meeting technical requirements and fostering customer relationships.
Responsibilities
- 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 finalize 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 and 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 manage change through control board activities
- Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules
- Conduct thorough risk and opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation and realization
- Apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools and processes to the benefit of program decisions, actions, and performance
- Identify and address program impacts through a systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program
- Manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs
- Initiate, develop, integrate, execute, direct and control program plans and cost and schedule baselines that meet both program contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations
- Identify, orchestrate, coordinate and control the management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their life cycle to achieve successful program completion
- Plan and execute a project quality management system to satisfy quality requirements and create a project value system which emphasizes prevention over inspection and continuous process improvement
- Address program uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling plans, and manages, controls, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the program
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years, or Master’s and 3 years’ experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in other industries
- 3 years of experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements as either project lead, integrated program team or cost account manager
- 3 years of demonstrated success leading teams and/or organizations to achieve a common goal
- Current Active TS/SCI required at time of application
- Earned Value Management Training
- Ability to work full time in SCIF environment in Dulles, VA
- Experience packaging and presenting Estimate At Complete reviews
- Extensive experience with managing software development activities including executing software development plans, ensuring team adheres to industry standard software development processes, experience leading an agile development life cycle
- Ability to establish and apply a technical performance baseline to monitor and compare key program technical performance measures, assess program and product status, and take appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline
Nice to have:
- Existing program access
- Insight into customer technical and business (financial, political, cultural) requirements and the ability to shape customer expectations with a solution that satisfies their needs and is advantageous to the company
- Ability to manage the maintenance and support of delivered products including spares availability; product reliability, maintainability, and testability; support equipment; modeling and simulation; training systems; prognostics and health management; field and fleet support; and program support management
- Ability to recognize and respond to customer needs in order to develop additional sales that support organizational objectives
- Ability to define proposal strategy, lead proposal teams, analyze and shape RFPs, produce and deliver winning proposals, effectively track and incorporate Review Team comments and findings, and manage post-proposal submittals (orals, finding responses)
- Ability to define, document, analyze, trace, prioritize, and confirm requirements throughout the entire program life cycle
- Ability to plan for, identify, estimate, cost, acquire, schedule, and retire resources needed to satisfy program requirements within organizational constraints
- Ability to effectively plan, define, establish, communicate, monitor, and control scope to ensure that all of the work required and only the work required is performed
- Ability to identify, select, direct and manage subcontract and supply chain elements of the program in a manner that supports program goals and company strategy
- Consistently makes time to seek and incorporate input from customers and understand their expectations. Demonstrates commitment and energy to meet customer needs. Builds strong relationships with strategic partners and key suppliers. Guides program team and support functions on how to take action to satisfy customer expectations
- Relevant contract type experience (FFP, CPFF)
Benefits
- Overtime eligibility (depending on position)
- Shift differential eligibility (depending on position)
- Discretionary bonus (annual bonuses reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results)
- Long Term Incentives (for Vice President or Director positions)
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Important Details
- Relocation assistance: No
- Clearance required for start: Yes
- Clearance type: SCI
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Application deadline: Estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date (may be shortened or extended)
About the Company
Northrop Grumman is a company that provides employees with opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact lives globally. The company's pioneering and inventive spirit has contributed to many technological advancements in national history. They seek individuals with bold new ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to invent the future.
