Senior Principal Project Manager – Staffing Lead
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Project Manager – Staffing Lead to support the RQ-4 organization in Rancho Bernardo, California. The position serves as a central point of coordination for workforce planning, staffing integration, reporting, and resource-management activities. The successful candidate will be a proactive, organized self-starter with experience in workforce planning, project management, staffing operations, resource management, or data analysis, and strong cross-functional coordination, analytical, communication, and executive-presentation skills. The role leads integrated workforce planning and staffing activities, maintains forecasts and staffing plans, coordinates requisitions and mitigation strategies, and consolidates workforce and resource information for program leadership. It develops reporting and executive presentations connecting staffing status to cost, schedule, technical performance, and program priorities; leads staffing and resource reviews; assesses workforce alignment and risks; and advises senior management on workforce strategy and staffing trade-offs. The position is full-time onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California, and requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance. Travel is 10% of the time; relocation assistance is not available.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience in workforce planning, staffing, resource management, project management, business operations, program operations, data analytics, or related areas; or a master’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience; or a doctoral degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience.
- Experience supporting workforce planning, staffing coordination, resource management, requisition management, project management, operations, or data analytics.
- Experience collecting, reconciling, analyzing, and presenting workforce or resource data from multiple sources.
- Ability to develop clear reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations for leadership audiences.
- Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to work full-time onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience using workforce-planning, applicant-tracking, resource-management, business-intelligence, reporting, or data-visualization tools.
- Experience supporting staffing or resource planning in aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, technology, government contracting, or another complex or regulated environment.
- Experience coordinating staffing across multiple functions, teams, projects, or geographic locations.
- Demonstrated success improving staffing processes, reporting accuracy, hiring cycle times, resource utilization, or workforce metrics.
- Experience evaluating staffing impacts to cost, schedule, technical performance, and operational objectives.
- Experience developing and presenting recommendations to senior leaders or executive-level audiences.
- Experience with scenario planning, workforce forecasting, risk management, or resource optimization.
Responsibilities
- Lead workforce planning and staffing integration across program, functional, finance, human resources, and talent acquisition organizations.
- Maintain an integrated staffing plan and coordinate mitigation strategies for staffing gaps, surpluses, critical-skill shortages, single points of failure, and aging vacancies.
- Coordinate position and requisition activities, including creation, activation, candidate tracking, status reconciliation, and closure.
- Consolidate workforce forecasts, requisition status, staffing demand, and resource data into a consistent staffing picture for program leadership.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, reports, and executive-level presentations that connect staffing status to cost, schedule, technical performance, and program priorities.
- Lead recurring staffing and resource reviews, including preparing review packages, presenting workforce risks and opportunities, documenting decisions, and tracking actions through closure.
- Evaluate workforce skill mix and labor-category alignment against contractual requirements, staffing plans, and program baselines.
- Partner with functional leadership, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, and program teams to address staffing misalignments and balance cost, capability, and schedule needs.
- Work with integrated teams to identify, assess, and mitigate staffing-related risks and opportunities, including skill gaps, coverage risks, hiring delays, and resource constraints.
- Maintain accurate near-term and long-range staffing forecasts aligned with program priorities and changing business needs.
- Improve staffing processes, reporting methods, data quality, and cycle times through standardization, automation, and effective use of workforce-management tools.
- Advise senior management on workforce strategy, staffing trade-offs, resource scenarios, and mitigation options.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.
- Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.
- Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
