About This Role
This project management role involves overseeing and managing the operational aspects of ongoing projects, acting as a liaison between various teams. The selected candidate will review project status and budgets, manage schedules, and prepare reports. The position focuses on assessing project issues to develop resolutions that meet productivity, quality, and client satisfaction goals.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the manufacturing project team liaison to program management, engineering, supply chain, quality assurance, and other functional groups
- Receive manufacturing requirements from the program and coordinate planning with the manufacturing team
- Oversee and facilitate the overall production flow from material receipt to delivery for the program’s schedule and cost requirements, including incoming inspection, material receipt into stock, kitting, integration, in-process inspections, verification test, acceptance test, final inspection, and joint inventory
- Be responsible for successful execution of the manufacturing scope of the program’s Statement of Work (SOW)
- Be responsible for cost, schedule, and technical performance of products manufactured
- Collaborate with all manufacturing, program, and other functional organizations to resolve operations conflicts in real-time
- Be responsible for the manufacturing operations content of proposals, including coordinating inputs with the program office and manufacturing functional organizations
- Be the focal point in driving Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs)
- Provide inputs to the Risk & Opportunity management plan
- Be the Cost Account Manager (CAM) for manufacturing, including Earned Value Management reporting and variance reporting
- Provide manufacturing status to Project Management (PM)
- Work with Global Supply Chain (GSC) to ensure on-time delivery of conforming material to support the manufacturing schedule
- Be the manufacturing representative at the Configuration Control Board (CCB), ensuring proper implementation of design changes
- Coordinate program review meetings with manufacturing functional management and program management
- Develop contract closeout plan and drive execution
Requirements
- For a level 2: Bachelor's degree plus 2 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, engineering, and/or program management, or 0 years with a master's degree
- For a level 3: Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of progressive experience in manufacturing, engineering, and/or program management, or 2 years with a master's degree, or 1 year with a PhD
- Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities, as evidenced by prior experience leading a team or project in a production environment
- Ability to develop solutions to complex problems requiring ingenuity, creativity, and participation of internal and/or external personnel and teams
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, interpersonal skills, and a good problem-solving mindset
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Ability to collaborate in a team environment
- Ability to compose materials such as detailed reports, work-related manuals, and publications
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance
- Must be a US Citizen
Nice to have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Management, Business Administration, Communications, or other related field
- Demonstrated experience as an OPM, project manager, program manager, or engineering program manager in leading a team of engineering and/or manufacturing personnel in military-grade product development or repair
- Proficiency in Risk and Opportunity management
- Experience with basis of estimates, proposal generation, and EAC development
- PMP Certification
- Proficiency in Earned Value Management System (EVMS) techniques, which includes program cost and schedule management
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Important Details
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
- Application deadline: Estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date, subject to business needs
About the Company
Northrop Grumman employees have opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives globally. The company has been at the forefront of technological advancements in the nation's history, from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean to stealth bombers and landing on the moon. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
