Sr. Principal Project Management - Clearfield, United States - Northrop Grumman

Description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal Project Management position to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Clearfield, UT.

The Project Manager/Principal Project Manager will be a member for the Affordability team ensuring the programs is successful in achieving our manufacturing cost and schedule targets through a variety of technical and administrative process improvements.
This position is responsible for decomposing top-level program cost targets, assigning targets to the appropriate IPT, working with the IPTs to identify and implement cost reduction opportunities to meet the cost targets, and tracking progress to the targets. Strong leadership, communication, and analytic skills are essential for success in this position. The successful candidate will c oordinate with Manufacturing Personnel and Multiple Engineering Functions to identify, characterize, estimate, and propose efforts that will reduce cost and increase efficiency.

The position requires an understanding of life-cycle cost, schedule, risk, and affordability implications of alternatives under consideration. The position requires ability to develop and oversee tradeoffs of requirements, design, performance, cost, and schedule to address affordability constraints. The position is responsible for encouraging and facilitating active participation of the broader stakeholder community and decision makers in exploring alternatives to achieve program affordability.

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Project Management:

• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years of business experience or master's degree with 8 years of related experience.
• Must be able to attain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access (PAR/SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aerospace background
• CAM Certified
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Active Program Access
• Have experience developing cost research models and cost risks analysis for complex systems aerospace systems
• Have experience in performing cost estimating activities such as cost analysis, statistical analysis, WBS development, and risk analysis
• Experience working with data visualization software (e.g., MS Excel including macros, Tableau Desktop, QlikView, MS Power BI, etc.) or any other data analysis software applications
• Experience with data mining/analytics programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, or BA
• Experience using Microsoft Office suite of tools
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills across multiple levels