Manager Programs 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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) is looking a Program Manager 3 to support the Sentinel Navigation Inertial Measurement System (NIMS) Program under the Navigation and Cockpit Systems (NACS) Business Unit. This position is in Woodland Hills, CA and requires full-time on-site support. This leader will be responsible for executing the Sentinel NIMS Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract. What You’ll Get To Do: * The Program Manager will report to the Senior Director, Sentinel NIMS Program. They will and provide overall leadership for a diverse, cross-functional program team to ensure successful delivery of program requirements. * They will be accountable for cost, schedule, and technical performance across all phases of execution. * The Program Manager will support the negotiation of contracts and contract modifications, and leads the coordination and development of proposals, business plans, statements of work, specifications, operating budgets, and contract financial terms and conditions. * They will serve as the primary customer interface for program activities, leading program reviews and customer engagements to communicate and align on cost, schedule, and technical performance. * They will establish program-level design concepts and technical criteria and oversees engineering efforts spanning development, integration, and test. * They will define key milestones, maintain adherence to master plans and schedules, proactively identifies program risks and issues, and drive timely resolution through actions such as resource realignment or management of contractual and technical changes. * They will direct and integrate the work of personnel across engineering, manufacturing, and administrative functions in support of program objectives. * This role will provide program-facing leadership for system hardware configuration, release planning, and integrated deployment execution in an EMD environment. * They will be responsible for managing the hardware configuration baseline, tracking and driving design changes, and coordinating across Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure design compliance in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). * This position will include at least one direct report. * The position will lead strategic hardware product mapping and execution plans to progress hardware through the development lifecycle to release, while overseeing system-level integration activities and identifying process improvements that accelerate hardware deliveries. * This role will also support execution on large program acquisition contracts, requiring close customer coordination, effective negotiation, and clear communication to ensure commitments for hardware delivery are met. Primary responsibilities will include: * Lead and support deployment activities to drive timely execution of integration testing, validation and verification of the system requirements for sell-off. * Accountable for system hardware (HW)...