Description

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. 

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Project Manager to join our team of qualified individuals driving high quality program execution through their direct support and performance as a member of the Program Operations & Integration team. This role is located in Melbourne, FL.

Due to the nature of the role, an on-site presence is required and cannot be performed remotely.

The position will follow our 9/80 schedule and allow employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. 

This is an individual contributor, non-manager role with no direct reports, and will functionally report to the Program Operations team.

The successful candidate is expected to be a highly motivated, resourceful, self-starter able to work collaboratively with internal teams and external customers in high-tempo environments. This role will actively work the Program Management Office to integrate, control, and manage program requirements to ensure success of a restricted program. You will integrate the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serve as liaison between program management, program integration and project teams. This position will be expected to assist the program with reviewing status of projects and budgets, resource planning, preparing for and facilitating meetings, and supporting various administrative functions tied to the PMO business rhythm. They should be comfortable with applying analytical reasoning skills, identifying continuous improvement opportunities in PMO operations, dealing effectively with change and being a flexible team member, and possess solid organizational abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• • • Support the Program Management Office and Leadership to accomplish a variety of precise, time-sensitive monthly deliverables, metrics, and presentations
    • Collaborate across Functions to ensure all objectives are met
    • Assist with monitoring progress, assessing project issues and driving actions to closure to meet program goals and objectives
    • Perform program resource management, including coordination of project staffing baselines and forecasts
    • Facilitate Risk, Issue and Opportunity management
    • Data synthesis, aggregation, analysis, and communication
    • Organize knowledge sharing, assist with improvements to team SharePoint site
    • Promote team engagement activities including lunch and learns, team recognition and organizational highlights
    • Support new business proposals and facilitation
    • Proactively manage strategic rhythm of the organization to ensure preparedness for program and customer deadlines
    • Drive a sense of urgency and act with speed to meet all needs of the business and stakeholders
    • Project and control account management
    • Coordination across multiple disciplines and product teams
    • Preparing status reports and maintaining detailed project logs
    • Assessing project issues and developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives
    • Establish and maintain the program strategic rhythm
    • Review change board packages and assess for potential impacts
    • Continuous process improvement focus
    • Assist in development of program metrics and coordinate with Tableau administrators to build products for the program
    • Administration of Jira and Confluence sites; adhering to and creating new process documentation and controls to ensure configuration control of data
    • Coordinate and manage program meetings

Basic Qualifications

• • • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years’ experience in project management, OR Master’s degree, OR 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree
    • Experience with Microsoft Office Products (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
    • Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
    • Experience working with and manipulating detail-oriented data
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company

Preferred Qualifications:

• • • Ability to influence and drive results without direct authority of personnel
    • Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and accuracy
    • At least 2 years of experience leading a project and/or driving performance against schedule

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