Senior Principal Project Manager – Staffing Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

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 Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Project Manager – Staffing Lead to support the RQ-4 organization in Rancho Bernardo, California. This position will serve as a central point of coordination for workforce planning, staffing integration, reporting, and resource-management activities.

The successful candidate will be a proactive, organized self-starter with experience in workforce planning, project management, staffing operations, resource management, or data analysis. The role requires strong cross-functional coordination, analytical, communication, and executive-presentation skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning and staffing integration across program, functional, finance, human resources, and talent acquisition organizations.
• Maintain an integrated staffing plan and coordinate mitigation strategies for staffing gaps, surpluses, critical-skill shortages, single points of failure, and aging vacancies.
• Coordinate position and requisition activities, including creation, activation, candidate tracking, status reconciliation, and closure.
• Consolidate workforce forecasts, requisition status, staffing demand, and resource data into a consistent staffing picture for program leadership.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, reports, and executive-level presentations that connect staffing status to cost, schedule, technical performance, and program priorities.
• Lead recurring staffing and resource reviews, including preparing review packages, presenting workforce risks and opportunities, documenting decisions, and tracking actions through closure.
• Evaluate workforce skill mix and labor-category alignment against contractual requirements, staffing plans, and program baselines.
• Partner with functional leadership, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, and program teams to address staffing misalignments and balance cost, capability, and schedule needs.
• Work with integrated teams to identify, assess, and mitigate staffing-related risks and opportunities, including skill gaps, coverage risks, hiring delays, and resource constraints.
• Maintain accurate near-term and long-range staffing forecasts aligned with program priorities and changing business needs.
• Improve staffing processes, reporting methods, data quality, and cycle times through standardization, automation, and effective use of workforce-management tools.
• Advise senior management on workforce strategy, staffing trade-offs, resource scenarios, and mitigation options.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience in areas such as workforce planning, staffing, resource management, project management, business operations, program operations, or data analytics; OR
• Master’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant military or professional experience in these or related areas; Experience supporting workforce planning, staffing coordination, resource management, requisition management, project management, operations, or data analytics; OR
• Doctoral degree and at least 4 years of relevant military or professional experience in these or related areas; Experience supporting workforce planning, staffing coordination, resource management, requisition management, project management, operations, or data analytics.
• Experience collecting, reconciling, analyzing, and presenting workforce or resource data from multiple sources.
• Ability to develop clear reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations for leadership audiences.
• Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California.
• Must have the ability to obtain a US Government Secret or higher clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using workforce-planning, applicant-tracking, resource-management, business-intelligence, reporting, or data-visualization tools.
• Experience supporting staffing or resource planning in aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, technology, government contracting, or another complex or regulated environment.
• Experience coordinating staffing across multiple functions, teams, projects, or geographic locations.
• Demonstrated success improving staffing processes, reporting accuracy, hiring cycle times, resource utilization, or workforce metrics.
• Experience evaluating staffing impacts to cost, schedule, technical performance, and operational objectives.
• Experience developing and presenting recommendations to senior leaders or executive-level audiences.
• Experience with scenario planning, workforce forecasting, risk management, or resource optimization.

Primary Level Salary Range: $117,500.00 - $176,300.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.