Manager Programs 2

Northrop Grumman•San Diego, CA

5d•$161,100 - $241,700

About The Position

The Operations Manager and Division Staffing Lead will report to the Division Strategy and Operations Manager (SOM) and be responsible for leading staffing across the Division along with supporting initiatives and day-to-day operations for the Engineering and Sciences (E&S) function in the Navigation, Intelligence, & Connectivity (NIC) Division. The role includes coordination and seamless integration of activities across the organization. The individual selected for this role will also provide support to senior and executive leadership to enable execution and engineering initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM field and a minimum of 8 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 6 years of experience or a PhD with 4 years of experience in Engineering, Operations, Program and/or Functional Management.
6 years of professional experience in the defense or aerospace industries.
US Citizenship is required in order to obtain and maintain security clearance.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Proven experience as a team player and collaborator.
Previous experience in People and Technical Leadership roles, including leadership through influence.
Strong understanding of engineering process with execution experience across the program lifecycle.
Highly organized with strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree
TS/SCI Clearance
Demonstrated success in identifying inefficiencies, gaps, and bottlenecks and leveraging automation, application development, and AI to streamline operations.
Experience with the NGMS Work Load Forecast (WLF) tool and other business systems related to forecasting program demand requirements and labor planning.
Experience working with program performance, engineering, and staffing related metrics, including driving metrics collection to be leading-focused and creating and leveraging metrics to drive outcomes and behaviors.
Experience in multiple types/phases of programs including development, production, logistics support, and systems and services.
Prior leadership experience in both functional and program roles.
Prior operations experience and support of executive leadership, including preparation of executive briefing material.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain an engineering staffing strategy as the primary area of focus.
Lead short- and long-range strategic planning related to labor resources to support the programs and diverse locations across the Division.
Understand the aggregated staffing needs of the organization to drive focus and actions in the most important areas.
Prepare executive-level summaries of the organization’s staffing snapshot on demand, including briefing content and charts to support Division outward reporting to Sector and other internal stakeholders.
Leverage all staffing-related data sources to communicate status effectively including program demand, coordination with Talent Acquisition (open requisitions and recruiting), attrition, etc.
Establish and maintain a business rhythm to align the network of managers and POCs related to staffing to the organization’s objectives.
Maintain staffing-related process documentation and resources to be used by those performing staffing, including stewardship of the staffing data aligned to the organization to ensure source data is accurate and dependable and coordination with Sector Engineering for metrics and Tableau dashboards.
Metrics coordination with Division Synergy and CoP leaders and representing the Division in Sector-level coordination on metrics.
E&S funded NCTA, ITA, and capital initiatives.
Track status of training, Independent Reviews, proposals, and CEACs across the organization.
Maintenance of data repositories and collaboration tools (e.g; SharePoint, Website content).
Plan, coordinate, and facilitate staff meetings, leadership off-sites and site visits, organizational reviews, and other leadership team activities as required.
Collect data and develop materials in support of Engineering leadership meetings and decision-making actions.
Publish meeting minutes with actions; coordinate with teams to drive actions to closure in alignment with organizational priorities.
May serve as a delegate for the leader in designated reviews.
Perform special assignments and lead special initiatives as required.
Lead the proactive implementation and integration of work products necessary to support reporting requirements.
Ensure commonality and the sharing of best practices for operations functions within each engineering organization.
Partner with engineering and division operations to support reporting and analysis of engineering goals and organizational objectives.