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Program Manager 1 - Thermal Systems
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Maryland-Hanover
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None TRAVEL: No 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. Program Manager 1 – ITS Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems is looking for a Program Manager 1 to support the Integrated Thermal Systems business unit in Hanover, MD Integrated Thermal Systems is the world leader in two phase thermal control for Space applications. We have designed, manufactured, and tested thermal control components / systems for nearly every US based satellite launched in the last 30 years and many international programs. The ITS team also designs, fabricates, and tests honeycomb composite spacecraft structural panels (many with integrated thermal and electrical components). Our systems are currently supporting some of the nation’s most important national security missions along with more public missions such as Cygnus Space Station Cargo Re-Supply, Boeing Starliner, Artemis HALO, Direct TV, XM Radio, Broadband Internet, NASA Weather & Telescope Missions, Mars Rovers, Robotic On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, and many more! There are very few places in the Space Industry that offer direct exposure to the breath of programs our business supports. This position is 100% on-site. Overview The primary objective 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. Role and Responsibilities: Program Managers are responsible for leading all phases of the program life cycle from inception (proposal development) through startup, execution, and completion (contract closeout). Primary responsibilities are the management of cost, schedule, and technical performance of company programs or subsystems and include, but are not limited to: • Cultivating customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community • Developing new business opportunities through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans • Establishing a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub-organizations • Leading and directing cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule and technical performance objectives • Measuring and reporting program performance • Delivering presentations to customers, executive management and other program stakeholders • Participating in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions. • Establishing design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test. • Creation, review and finalization of the program Statement of W