Project Management 3/4

Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company whose work with cutting-edge technology is driven by something human: the lives our technology protects? If so, Northrop Grumman may be the place for you. It’s not the systems that drive us: it’s the soldier our systems bring home. It’s not just the equipment that motivates us: it’s the people our equipment protects. It’s not the innovation that gets us up in the morning: it’s whom those innovations serve. We’re united by our work to help people and protect the world. And that mission makes our team even stronger.

When you join Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with coworkers in an environment that’s uniquely caring, diverse, and respectful. Employees share experiences, insights, perspectives, and creative solutions with some of the best minds in the industry. We collaborate through integrated product teams, cross-functional teams, and employee resource groups, while thriving through the support of training and development, mentors and every day coaching, along with extensive health and work/life benefits. We’re committed to our employees’ professional and personal development and success.

Northrop Grumman recruits top talent with traditional and non-traditional backgrounds in order to ensure our team is united, connected, skilled, focused and innovative. An inclusive workplace of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives is the key to our performance. At Northrop Grumman, we want our employees to bring their whole self to work. All your different sides are welcome here, as we believe they make our team, our products and our services, that much better.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve the project management system and practice of project management within the organization including project management policies and procedures, planning templates, project management software tools, standard report formats, etc.

• Support project managers and their teams in the effective application of sound project management principles and techniques to achieve project success. Provide ongoing ownership and responsibility for the application of project management in the organization.

• Provide portfolio governance and program and project delivery oversight

• Organize and maintain an organizational repository of project information that has value in planning future projects.

• Promote concise communication regarding projects within the organization.

• Conduct portfolio-level analyses, such as workload projections across multiple projects.

• Develop and maintain best practice methodologies, tools, processes and standards to promote and measure the quality of delivery.

• Maintain clear understanding of Northrop Grumman and its client’s strategic and business drivers so that the PMO can align initiatives, programs and projects to these drivers and operate with a defined, quantitative purpose.

• Maintain a cooperative working relationship across the organizations’ lines of business.

• As needed, manage projects, including the unilateral development of project plans and the direct control of performance

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 or a level 4

Basic Qualifications for a Project Manager 3 are:


• 6 Years with Bachelors; 4 Years with Masters

• Expertise in project planning and control methodologies

• Expertise using project management software tools

• Expertise implementing and integrating software tools

• Familiarity with business, technical, and political aspects of the projects performed in the organization

• Exceptional interpersonal, group facilitation, analytical, and communication skills

• Exceptional process discipline and attention to detail

• Must be either a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit
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. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.