Principal / Sr Principal Project Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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 Mission Systems (NGMS) , Marine Systems is seeking a Principal Project Manager or Sr. Principal Project Manager for the Marine Logistics Support (MLS) Program within the Launcher Operating Unit onsite in Sunnyvale, CA . The primary responsibility of the Principal Project Manager will be the delivery of all contractual requirements on cost and on schedule, while achieving all technical requirements and creating customer intimacy to support value creation strategies and actions. The individual will lead a cross-functional organization aligned to common program performance goals. The Project Manager is the primary customer point of contact for spares and repairs, reporting to the MLS Program Manager. What You'll Get to Do: Serves as liaison between client Program management and planning, technical leads, and functional management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and stakeholder-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving. Potential job duties may also include, but are not limited to: • Working side by side with the Program Manager and Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads on all program reporting and executive level presentations. • Ensuring that IPT processes and products result in quality, compliant, affordable, and on-time deliverables that achieve customer satisfaction. • Supports Risk and Opportunity management of the IPT and program. • Ensures implementation of new processes and implements process improvement changes. • Creating, maintaining, and updating meeting attendance lists, minutes and rhythm. • Capturing, tracking and managing meeting action items to closure. • Managing Government/Customer supplied property or information (GFE/CFE, etc). • Adherence to all internal processes, policies and applicable industry standards. • Ensuring IPT understands and adheres to contract scope and manages change through control board activities. • Development and adherence to plans and schedules. This requisition may be filled at either a Principal Project Manager level or a Sr. Principal Project Manager level. Basic Qualifications for Principal Project Manager Level 3: • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ or a master's degree with at least 1 year of relevant professional experience supporting U.S. Government contracts or project management activities.  Additional 4 years of directly related professional work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. • Experience in Material Procurement or Supply Chain management • Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documen