Staff Logistics Planner - Provisioning

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available. CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes. CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret. TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the time. Staff Logistics Planner – Provisioning The Aeronautics Engineering organization is seeking a Staff Logistics Planner – Provisioning to serve as the Provisioning Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Support Hardware technical discipline within the newly established Product Support CoTE. This key leadership role reports to the Product Support (PS) Logistics Support Manager S02 and is responsible for defining strategy to elevate technical excellence across the Product Support Hardware discipline. Responsibilities Support staff development, including skill training and career support; contributing to performance evaluations, overseeing salary review processes, and supervising employee development and mentoring efforts. Provide leadership and define a strategic vision for technical priorities within the Support Hardware (Provisioning focus) discipline in the Product Support CoTE, aligned to long‑term sector strategy. Partner with program discipline leads to understand program critical skill needs and gaps in engineering tools, processes, digital solutions, and technical training. Own all technical processes and manuals aligned to the discipline area, ensuring technical excellence and compliance. Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of new or modified discipline processes to strengthen technical excellence and workforce capabilities, improving business results. Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of discipline tools, ensuring tools are integrated into the discipline processes, support overall digital solutions, and are relevant, scalable, and interoperable across programs with associated training material. Develop discipline training framework and technical content to enable a prepared and high‑performing workforce. Develop metrics and monitor training effectiveness in collaboration with program execution teams. Collaborate with Sector Integration and Operations organizations to translate tool, process, and training needs into funded initiatives and frameworks, and to monitor and measure effectiveness. Partner with programs for adoption of tools, processes, digital solutions, and training. Oversee and allocate the Support Hardware discipline’s NCTA and indirect budgets to strengthen technical excellence; advance tools, processes, and workforce capabilities; generating measurable impact on program performance and future competitiveness. Represent the Support Hardware discipline in sector‑wide and enterprise‑wide technical development efforts related to technical development, career pathing, training, and critical skills investment. Participate in sector‑level talent reviews and succession planning to maintain discipline‑wide visibility into talent strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities. Partner with leads to understand program critical skill needs and collaborate with SI&O to translate skill needs into funded technical training programs and onboarding frameworks. Build and sustain a strong discipline Community of Practice (CoP), ensuring alignment of sub‑CoPs, strategies, and priorities while fostering collaboration across programs and sub‑disciplines. Contribute technical expertise and process leadership in major proposal reviews, program reviews, independent technical reviews, program stand‑up reviews, NCTA and indirect activities, and other sector‑wide improvement efforts. Act as a trusted advisor to help resolve technical performance shortfalls through root‑cause analysis, corrective action planning, and long‑term verification of improvement. Capture, share, and embed lessons learned and best practices across programs to continuously raise the bar for technical performance. Promote Knowledge Management and Transfer. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of military and/or professional experience, or Master’s degree with 10 years of experience, or PhD with 8 years of experience. Active DoD Secret clearance that is in‑scope (granted or renewed in the last 6 years) and eligibility for Top Secret/SCI. Ability to attain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR). Excellent leadership and written communication skills. Expertise in establishing engineering standards, tools, and processes at scale. Working knowledge of all twelve Product Support technical disciplines. Work knowledge of DoD Logistics, Sustainment, MRO customers, Northrop Grumman military aircraft types, missions, and execution. Experience as a key team member in major technical milestone reviews (Independent Review Teams, Non‑Advocate Reviews, or color team reviews). Approximately 25% travel as required. Preferred Qualifications Current Special Program Access (PAR). MS or MBA degree. Program management experience. Experience working across the total program lifecycle with emphasis on influencing design to optimize fielded support solutions. Experience with or exposure to digital design initiatives and solutions, including Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Based Sustainment (MBS). Continuous improvement mindset with experience leading process optimization. Strategic, systems‑level thinker who can build alignment across functional and program boundaries. Experience providing International Product Support solutions. Experience engaging with the DoD Logistics, Sustainment, MRO customer community, and/or supporting military aircraft missions. Location: This position supports all Aeronautics Systems business divisions at primary geographic sites, including Melbourne, FL; Palmdale, CA; Rancho Bernardo, CA; El Segundo, CA; and Oklahoma City, OK. The position is geographically flexible and can be based out of any of these five locations. Primary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 – $199,400.00. Base pay may be determined by scope, responsibilities, and candidate experience, education, skills, and market conditions. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonuses, long‑term incentives, and may receive health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions. #J-18808-Ljbffr Northrop Grumman