Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has an opening for an Administrative Assistant 4 to join our team. This position will be based in Annapolis, MD, reporting to the RSLP engineering director. The position will also support teams across 3 other sites in Floridia, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania supporting approximately 100 total employees.
Responsibilities to include, but not limited to:
- Provides direct support to multiple leaders and individual contributors.
- Performs office functions, including (but not limited to): setting up and maintaining files; arranging meetings and conferences; maintaining supplies; managing Outlook calendars; and receiving, referring or answering mail.
- Makes travel arrangements for international and domestic travel, prepares expense reports and maintains pertinent travel documentation.
- Facilitates program meetings (all hands, lunch and learns, and customer visits).
- Collaborates with administrative professionals in related organizations, as appropriate.
- Assists in maintaining organizations collaboration sites and activities.
- Assists events and activities of major organization initiatives
- Support onboarding activities for new hires including but not limited to seating arrangement, ordering of IT hardware,
- interfacing with HR and Talent Acquisition and management of pre-employment forms
Basic Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent and 6 years additional education and/or related experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills with proven success in organizing, prioritizing, and completing assigned responsibilities.
- Must be proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), with the ability to manage multiple calendars, create and edit documents.
- Proactive, highly motivated and adaptable, with excellent organizational skills including the ability to juggle multiple tasks, changing needs, and competing priorities across a geographically dispersed team.
- Ability to work on site full time in Annapolis, MD
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Associate degree.
- Experience and proficiency with Concur (or similar) travel and expense reporting system.
- Experience with Confluence.
- Experience coordinating meetings and/or events.
- Experience in supporting a large program team within an organization.
- Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish the project result
- Able to perform work in approved environment during specific work hours
Skills Required
- High School diploma or equivalent and 6 years additional education and/or related experience
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills with proven success organizing and prioritizing work
- Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Manage multiple calendars, arrange meetings and conferences, maintain files and supplies, and perform general office functions
- Make travel arrangements for international and domestic travel, prepare expense reports, and maintain travel documentation
- Support onboarding activities including seating arrangements, ordering IT hardware, interfacing with HR and Talent Acquisition, and managing pre-employment forms
- Proactive, highly motivated, adaptable, with excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle multiple tasks across dispersed teams
- Ability to work on site full time in Annapolis, MD
- Bachelor's or Associate degree
- Experience and proficiency with Concur or similar travel and expense reporting systems
- Experience with Confluence
- Experience coordinating meetings and/or events
- Experience supporting a large program team within an organization
- Able to perform work in approved environment during specific work hours
Northrop Grumman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northrop Grumman and has not been reviewed or approved by Northrop Grumman.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) matching is considered strong, with additional defined-benefit coverage for certain cohorts and options like catch-up contributions. Retirement programs are repeatedly highlighted as a core strength of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, company-paid holidays, and compressed work schedules (such as 9/80) provide meaningful time away and flexibility. These scheduling options are cited as a major quality-of-life benefit across many locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave alongside caregiver leave, adoption assistance, and back-up care supports a range of family needs. These programs have been expanded recently, signaling continued investment in family support.
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