Test Project Manager 3
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector’s Flight Test Operations team is seeking a Test Project Manager 3 in Palmdale, California. The role supports the Palmdale Test Team Directorate and its leadership by coordinating projects and organizational activities, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time, and helping meet program cost, schedule, and performance objectives. The successful candidate will lead projects within program requirements, develop practical execution plans in a dynamic environment, and use systematic, objective evaluation to resolve complex problems. The position involves communicating and collaborating with internal and external customers, suppliers, program and functional leaders, and teams across disciplines. It also supports Directorate-level reporting, Program Integration planning and execution, recurring Business Unit reporting, and EVMS activities for Program Integration. The role follows a 9/80 schedule: nine-hour days Monday through Thursday, with every other Friday off. Relocation assistance may be available. The position requires a Secret clearance to start and travel up to 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 7 years of related experience. Related experience includes professional and/or military experience in project management, program management, engineering, capture efforts, and/or business management functions.
- Experience with Microsoft Office products, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience working with and manipulating detail-oriented data.
- Experience supporting new business proposals and facilitation.
- Experience performing program resource management, including coordination of staffing baselines and forecasts.
- Experience performing project and control account management.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the Secret clearance required to start.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a Production Test or Flight Test environment.
- Experience on an Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) or Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) program.
- A Special Access Program clearance, or having held one within the last 6 months.
- Experience administering Jira and Confluence sites and creating or following process documentation and controls to ensure configuration control of data.
Responsibilities
- Support the Palmdale Test Team Directorate and leadership with precise, time-sensitive monthly deliverables, metrics, and presentations.
- Collaborate across functions to ensure objectives are met.
- Monitor progress, assess project issues, and drive actions to closure to meet program goals and objectives.
- Facilitate risk, issue, and opportunity management.
- Synthesize, aggregate, analyze, and communicate data.
- Organize knowledge sharing and help improve the team SharePoint site.
- Promote team engagement activities, including lunch-and-learns, team recognition, and organizational highlights.
- Proactively manage the organization’s strategic rhythm to ensure preparedness for program and customer deadlines.
- Coordinate across multiple disciplines and product teams.
- Prepare status reports and maintain detailed project logs.
- Assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals.
- Establish and maintain the Directorate’s strategic rhythm.
- Review change board packages and assess potential impacts.
- Focus on continuous process improvement.
- Assist in developing program metrics and coordinate with Tableau administrators and the Technical Integrator to build program products.
- Coordinate and manage program meetings.
- Report at the Director level on Program Integration planning and execution tasks, provide inputs to recurring Business Unit reporting, and support EVMS for Program Integration.
- Collaborate with program and functional leaders to develop and nurture a competent, engaged team that delivers on commitments.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
