Project Management / Principal Project Management

Project Management / Principal Project Management

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's 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 nation's 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, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems in Huntsville / Madison, Alabama has an opening for a Project Management / Principal Project Management. Selected candidate oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.

Roles and responsibilities :

• Acting as the primary liaison between Huntsville Operations and the Program Manager (PM) with regards to assigned project or project area.
• Working with the PM and Engineering, Manufacturing & Logistics leads to ensure products can be efficiently manufactured by the manufacturing team, and that the production is consistent with existing tools and techniques.
• CAM (Control Account Manager) managing Earned Value, including planning and monitoring assigned projects using standard project monitoring techniques and keeping EM&L management updated on issues impacting the manufacturing quality, cost and schedule performance.
• Maintaining an accurate Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) ensuring alignment with project master schedule.
• Providing roll-up status of manufacturing activities to the PM / DPM as input to the for the overall program.
• Achieving targeted cost and schedule requirements.
• Resolving scheduling conflicts with PM / DPM and helping determine best way forward when issues or delays cause for re-planning of activities.
• Leading change control for the products to resolve issues / defects in production quickly and effectively including working with Process Team Leaders to resolve out-of-cycle scenarios in a timely manner.
• Working with the PM / DPM to ensure on time delivery of engineering and design information to manufacturing to meet production quality, cost, and schedule.
• Working with Global Supply Chain (GSC) and Supplier Quality to ensure technical information is accurate and timely to and from vendors, and expediting material issues and receipts.
• Supporting required activities to ensure compliance with provided requirements and delivery dates for production to meet customer delivery of final product.

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