Program Manager 1

Northrop Grumman • Dulles, VA

2d • $133,000 - $199,600

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking an entry-level Program Manager 1 for the Space Superiority Rapid Innovation Office. The position leads a team of mixed specialties through shaping, capture, architecting, design, integration, test, and fielding of counterspace mission capabilities. It is intended for candidates interested in Profit & Loss leadership and involves managing a smaller program or serving as a deputy on a larger program.

The Program Manager guides work across the program life cycle, from customer shaping and proposal development through startup, execution, and contract closeout. The role is accountable for delivering contractual requirements on cost and schedule, meeting technical requirements, and building customer relationships that support value creation. Responsibilities include managing program resources, cost, schedule, technical performance, requirements, baselines, risks, suppliers, and customer- or government-provided property and information.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years of experience, supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or managing subprojects in other industries.
• Currently hold and be able to maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance at application, and be able to gain additional Special Accesses.
• Three years of experience accomplishing relevant tasks on schedule, at cost, and while achieving formal requirements. Examples include designing, manufacturing, testing, or operating a component, subsystem, or system.
• Three years of demonstrated success leading high-performance teams and/or organizations toward a common goal.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the month.
• Business acumen: ability to apply business and financial knowledge, insights, tools, and processes to program decisions and performance.
• Communications: ability to manage communications with staff and stakeholders through organized processes so program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved effectively.
• Issue and problem resolution: ability to proactively identify program impacts and systematically communicate, monitor, and resolve conflicts across program levels.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading teams of at least four people and managing scope or activities exceeding $5 million, potentially as part of a larger team.
• Undergraduate and/or graduate technical degree in science, mathematics, or engineering from a nationally accredited institution.
• Experience working on space system programs, such as satellites, space-to-ground communications, command and control, or space vehicle operations.
• Experience with offensive and/or defensive counterspace architectures, missions, technologies, or customers.
• Capture management insight into customer technical, financial, political, and cultural considerations, and ability to shape customer expectations with advantageous solutions.
• Technical performance experience establishing a technical performance baseline and monitoring key program technical performance measures and status.
• Requirements experience defining, documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and confirming requirements throughout the program life cycle.
• Program integration ability to coordinate and control management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies across their life cycle.
• Risk and opportunity experience using an organized, analytical, forward-looking approach to identify uncertainty and determine handling plans.
• Planning, scheduling, and Earned Value experience initiating, developing, integrating, executing, directing, and controlling program plans and cost and schedule baselines.
• Customer intimacy: seeks and incorporates customer input, understands expectations, demonstrates commitment to customer needs, and builds strong relationships with strategic partners and key suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Work with SSD leadership and assigned staff to develop and communicate an organizational vision and roadmap.
• 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 an efficient program organizational structure and processes.
• Identify, allocate, and manage program resources, including workforce planning.
• Lead and direct cross-functional Integrated Program Teams to achieve program cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives.
• Measure and report program performance to customers and Northrop Grumman leadership.
• Deliver presentations to customers, executive management, and other program stakeholders.
• Participate in negotiating 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.
• Identify, distribute, track, and complete program requirements.
• Establish and manage program and subordinate baselines.
• Develop and adhere to budget baselines using Earned Value Management or similar cost and schedule control methods and tools.
• Manage government- or 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 changes through control board activities.
• Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules.
• Conduct risk and opportunity management, including identification, mitigation, and realization.
• Guide the team through program life-cycle phases, including inception, startup, execution, and completion.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
• Potential eligibility for overtime
• Potential eligibility for shift differential
• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus
• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives for Vice President or Director positions
• Relocation assistance may be available

What This Job Offers

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