
Northrop Grumman
Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America
10K+ Employees
Principal Project Mgmt
United States-California-Sunnyvale, United States of America
Posted on Sep 16, 2026
Job Description
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 within the Launcher Operating Unit. This position will be onsite at the Sunnyvale facility.
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.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
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.
Demonstrated use of MS Office Suite applications, including Excel for data analysis, tracking and reporting; Word for formal documentation, PowerPoint for executive and customer/stakeholder briefings, and MS project for schedule development and tracking.
Demonstrated experience applying business and financial management principles supporting program or project execution, including cost account management, financial tracking, forecasting or performance reporting.
Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including cross-functional teams supporting project and program deliverables.
Experience supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities, including risk identification, tracking, mitigation planning, or reporting.
Experience supporting monitoring and control of program plans, cost and schedule baselines to support contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations/deliverable.
Superior attention to detail with focus on customer satisfaction.
US Citizenship required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using SAP, ERP1/ERP2
Cyber Security knowledge and experience
Experience developing proposals
Experience supporting DoD / Government contracts
Advanced to Expert level MS Office Software Suite skills with emphasis on MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. The company's Aeronautics Systems segment designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, and sustains aircraft systems. This segment also offers unmanned autonomous aircraft systems, including high-altitude long-endurance strategic ISR systems and vertical take-off and landing tactical ISR systems; and strategic long-range strike aircraft, tactical fighter and air dominance aircraft, and airborne battle...
Job overview
Employment type
Full Time
Experience level
Senior
Posted
on Sep 16, 2026
Financials
Type
public
Annual Revenue
$10B+
Market Cap
$84B+
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