Program Planning Manager - Space Sector

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today. 

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Program Planning Manager to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals. This position will be located in Linthicum, MD, and an onsite presence will be required due to the nature and scope of the role. This position will support our Payload and Ground Systems team. 

As a manager of a professional program planning team, the selected candidate must have experience with the scheduling discipline, as well as the leadership qualities necessary to foster collaboration among team members and the programs they support.  

Job duties & responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Be the organizational lead to initiate a collaborative campaign across the equivalent levels of management  
• Advocate for team and products, ensuring business rhythms support skills and time to generate metrics and forecast abilities 
• Ensure major projects, program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups  
• Track plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts 
• Utilize Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project management techniques to assess progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas 
• Prepare, develop and coordinate the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to meet all program objectives 
• Ensure schedule products are compliant with latest Government, Corporate and Sector requirements and cover gaps in process/knowledge within the team organizational structure 
• Implement scheduling best practices as prescribed by industry to include, but not limited to: IPMR DI-MGMT-81861, Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Critical Path Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), Schedule Performance Analytics and Schedule Health Analysis (DCMA 14-Point, DECM metrics) 
• Drive change management and ensure adoption and acceptance of change (i.e. analytics, process, innovative efficiencies). 
• Manage and develop a team of program schedule analysts and reporting managers 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years related experience – OR – a Master’s degree and 4+ years related experience   
• Will consider 4+ years of work experience in lieu of a degree 
• Experience with MS Project and MS Office Suite 
• Experience with Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) 
• Understanding of Earned Value Management System tools  
• Experience with Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) 
• Current, active Top Secret Security Clearance, with ability to obtain SCI upon hire

Preferred Qualifications   

• Current, active TS/SCI Security Clearance 
• Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense programs and familiarity with Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) 
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics Discipline 
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-RMP, PMI, SP, PSP certifications 
• Leadership experience 

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.