Program Manager 1 – Precisions Products

Northrop Grumman • San Diego, CA

11d • $133,000 - $199,600 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector is hiring a Program Manager 1 to support the Precision Structures team in the Mission Enabling Products Operational Unit. The selected candidate will join the leadership team onsite in San Diego, California. The role manages the cost, schedule, and technical performance of contracts and helps shape requirements for follow-on efforts. It serves as the primary customer interface for program activities, including leading customer reviews of cost, schedule, and technical performance. The manager establishes milestones, monitors plans and schedules, identifies program risks and opportunities, and pursues solutions such as resource allocation or changes to contractual specifications. The role also directs employees assigned to the program across technical, operations, and administrative functions.

The successful candidate leads diverse technical teams, navigates internal processes, communicates with customers, supports a positive and engaging work environment, manages suppliers, provides clear direction, and applies program-management fundamentals and predictive metrics to solve problems. The role also involves developing customer relationships and business opportunities, managing program baselines, budgets, resources, requirements, suppliers, and risks, and ensuring that program execution adheres to contract scope and applicable processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related experience.
• Related experience in project management, program management, IPT leadership, capture efforts, and/or business management functions in an aerospace production environment.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with internal and external customers.
• Experience supporting proposal efforts, business plans, operating budgets, or program budgets.
• Demonstrated financial management skills, including developing and controlling program budgets and schedules, Estimate at Complete (EAC), and recognizing and capturing program changes.
• Demonstrated program execution and performance.
• Gated design development experience, such as PDR and CDR.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering.
• Experience with composite structures.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community.
• Develop new business opportunities through long-term strategic planning, capture planning, proposals, and business plans.
• Establish a program organization that addresses customer requirements and incorporates necessary internal and external sub-organizations.
• Lead cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPTs) to meet cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives.
• Measure and report program performance.
• Deliver presentations to customers, executive management, and other program stakeholders.
• Participate in negotiations involving 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 program and subordinate baselines.
• Develop and adhere to budget baselines using 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, including GFE and CFE.
• Manage suppliers to meet program objectives.
• Adhere to internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards.
• Ensure the program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manage change through control board activities.
• Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules.
• Conduct risk and opportunity management, including identification, mitigation, and realization.
• Direct and manage employees assigned to the program in technical, operations, and administrative roles.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level