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Program Manager 2
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-California-Goleta
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None 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’s Space Systems sector is looking for a Program Manager 2 to support the Deployables Operating Unit on-site in Goleta, CA. The Deployables OU is a leading designer, producer, and supplier of spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes. Products include spacecraft solar arrays, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, and antenna reflectors. Our products are used on virtually every spacecraft and satellite, and our customers include NASA, US government, and commercial satellite suppliers. 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. The Program Manager will be responsible for leading all phases of the program life cycle from inception (proposal development) through startup, execution, and completion (contract closeout). Role and Responsibilities: • Cultivate customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community • Develop new business opportunities through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans • Establish a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub-organizations • Lead and direct cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule and technical performance objectives • Measure and report program performance • Deliver presentations to customers, executive management and other program stakeholders • Participate in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions. • Establish design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test. • Create, review and finalize the program Statement of Work • Identify, distribute, track, and complete program requirements • Establish and manage the program and subordinate baselines • Develop and adhere to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools • Identify, allocate and manage program resources, to include workforce planning • Manage Government/customer supplied property or information (GFE, CFE, etc.) • Manage suppliers to meet program objectives. • Adhere to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards • Ensure the program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manage change through control board activities • Develop and adhere to master plans and sche