Manager, Production Operations

Northrop Grumman

Manager Operations Program Management at Northrop Grumman, leading manufacturing execution across Utah sites. Ensuring operational efficiency and compliance within the Central Region Manufacturing and Operations organization.

Posted 6/28/2026full-timeMagna • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $126,000 - $189,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support and facilitate the stand-up of the OPM functional organization in the Propulsion Systems Business Unit and be responsible for leading a team of OPM’s for a subset of the Utah portfolio.
Support regional OPM organizational alignment to ensure operations execution within Central region sites meets Space Sector M&O guidelines and expectations.
Lead our manufacturing teams to improve operational efficiency, implement optimal solutions and define end-to-end manufacturing, integration & test strategies and facilities.
Manage risk assessments and mitigation with a strong focus on compliance and ensuring that performance standards are met across all supported businesses.
Drive execution of improvement/streamlining, development, and operational initiatives, monitoring of operational goals and leadership objectives, and elimination of non-value-added activities in the organization.
Ensure all projects are delivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard. This includes detailed project planning and control, managing project scope and change control, and escalating issues where necessary.
Collaborate across sites, business units and the regions either leveraging lessons learned or enabling enterprise initiatives and thrusts through best practices, products, technologies, or strategies
Develop and maintain a strong leadership team across Utah sites to facilitate execution for all supported business areas and to drive consistency in operations methods and practices. The individual must be knowledgeable of the program life cycle, manufacturing capabilities, scheduling techniques, continuous improvement strategies, manufacturing readiness assessments, compliance requirements and financial practices to execute cost and schedule objectives and implement strategic initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant professional experience in a manufacturing, engineering, operations or program environment – OR – Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant professional experience in a manufacturing, engineering, operations or program environment.
2+ years’ experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements as either a Program/Project Manager, Integrated Program Lead (IPT) or Cost Account Manager (CAM)
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.
Working knowledge with manufacturing execution systems (ESI, Solumina etc.)
Working knowledge Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems.
Experience developing proposals and managing program execution with a demonstrated ability to create, track and meet schedules.
Working knowledge of financial management including projects, process control and budgets.
Experience with managing teams with various focus areas.
Must be a self-starter, have excellent written and oral communication skills, be highly collaborative, team oriented, have strong people leadership skills, and be able to effectively multi-task competing priorities and schedules across supported business areas.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to function independently, meet deadlines and achieve commitments. The ability to quickly respond to a variety of demands is essential.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

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Hard Skills & Tools

Manufacturing Execution SystemsMaterial Requirements PlanningProject PlanningRisk AssessmentOperational EfficiencyProgram Life CycleScheduling TechniquesCompliance RequirementsCost ManagementProposal Development

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsCollaborativeTeam OrientedStrong Leadership SkillsAttention to Detail

Certifications

U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance