CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 10 of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact peoples lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nations history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, theyre making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Manufacturing Business Operations – Level 3 to join our team in Dulles, VA. This position is 100 onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

This is a critical role that provides comprehensive support for proposals, baselines, CEACs, and metrics to manage manufacturing cost performance. This role is essential for program execution, planning, and performance management, with a strong emphasis on risk identification, historical data analysis, and predictive performance to meet evolving business needs.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

In this job, you will:

• Support the OPM organization, Manufacturing, and Programs in all aspects of cost performance management

• Contribute and support proposals, baselines, CEACs, and the development and tracking of key metrics

• Provide expertise in program execution, planning, and performance management

• Identify and assess risks, leveraging historical data and predictive analytics to inform decision-making

• Maintain and improve tools and templates to ensure quality, producibility, and process compliance for program execution and monitoring

• Align with industry standards and internal guidelines, emphasizing cost management, program support, risk analysis, and data-driven decision-making

• Ability to identify and incorporate tool advancements for cost performance (ex. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools)

• Tracking plans and schedules.

• Creating, maintaining and validating Schedule data.

• Performing risk analysis and management.

• Identifying and resolving critical path and network logic conflicts.

• Utilizing Gantt, milestone charts, Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances.

• Support manufacturing’s ownership of budgets and cost accounting (CAM activities), as well as evaluate and provide critical earned value metrics for manufacturing leadership to ensure production is scaling and efficient.

• Identifying cost reduction opportunities based on current manufacturing processes.

• Work closely with the Manufacturing Engineering team as well as the Industrial Engineering teams to ensure metric accuracy and consistency across all of manufacturing in Dulles and Gilbert.

• Direct or indirect management of manufacturing CAMs who are dedicated to specific programs running through the manufacturing work centers.

The candidate must possess excellent communication skills - both verbal and written; strong interpersonal skills; a good problem-solving mindset; and the ability to present manufacturing cost metrics visibility at internal meetings to include all levels of management. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience.   

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance

• Experience leading people and/or project management

• Experience collaborating across teams and business units

• Experience with SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and MS Office applications including Excel, Word, and Power Point

• Experience and understanding of manufacturing standards and cost estimating ratios

• Experience with Cost Management and CAM

 Preferred Qualifications:  

• CAM (Control Account Management) Certification

• Experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools

• Current/Active DoD Secret clearance

Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below:

https://www.northropgrumman.com/space

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Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidates experience, education, skills and current spanet conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.