Site Manager of Operations – Level 1

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · FL · Project Management (Non-P&L)

Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a Site Manager of Operations – Level 1 to lead a team of technicians in building, testing, and delivering SLS Booster assemblies at Kennedy Space Center. The role emphasizes safe operations, quality performance, on-time delivery, and budget compliance, requiring strong leadership, communication, and experience in manufacturing operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ensure facilities, tooling, planning, materials, and personnel are available to complete assigned tasks in support of business requirements.
  2. Ensure team training is complete and effective. Develop training materials and lead technician training activities.
  3. Lead/participate in continuous improvement activities. Develop and maintain metrics to track organizational performance.
  4. Set standards, working closely with the operations team to deliver performance.
  5. Ensure roles and responsibilities of team members are well understood and executed.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
  • Supervisory experience leading multi - discipline teams.
  • Ability to read and interpret engineering (e.g., drawings, 3-D models, specifications) and operating procedures.
  • Ability to read, interpret, follow, and teach assembly operations work steps from electronic shop floor planning.
  • Demonstrated use of manufacturing performance tools/indicators.
  • Experience successfully communicating with leadership, coaching, and building effective teams.
  • Computer skills; MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Nice to have

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

What the JD emphasized

  • Critical will be effective communication with internal customers
  • Emphasis will be placed on safe operations, quality performance, on-time delivery, budget compliance and continuous improvement.