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As a Northrop Grumman Industrial Security Manager 3 , you will be a valuable asset to our dynamic Security team. This is an opportunity to apply your proven security leadership skills across multiple Northrop Grumman locations. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordination and collaboration across a team of security professionals that are located in Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, and Colorado supporting the Payload & Ground Systems Division within our Space Sector. This position will be located in Linthicum, MD .

The Industrial Security Manager 3 position ensures security compliance with government and company regulations and strives for excellence in executing security milestones across multiple security disciplines (DoD, SAP, & SCI). This position will require direct interface with both internal and external executive level personnel and the ability to successfully manage competing priorities. This security management role oversees all aspects of security activities within the Tactical Edge family of programs and provides guidance to briefed/non-briefed personnel across all functions of the programs. The Security Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining program security metrics, and interfacing with facilities Executive Leadership Teams as needed. Additional duties assigned as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active and current Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI and SAP access.

• A bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years of related proven personnel leadership and business management experience in the field of security; or a master's degree plus a minimum of 8 years related proven personnel leadership and business management experience. An additional four years of relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Proven history of leading diverse teams in operational environments and ability to foster a diverse, inclusive, and engaging team environment that is focused on high performance and operational excellence; ability to communicate clear expectations and enforces accountability equitably.

• Demonstrated experience in making critical management and leadership that supports high value contracts across a wide US Government customer spectrum.

• Must have an in-depth knowledge and familiarity with the CFR 32 part 117 (NISPOM); Joint Air Force, Army and Navy (JAFAN), Intelligence Community Directives (ICD); DoD Manuals, and other related security requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with planning, executing business operations and managing a staff of largely geographically dispersed personnel, supporting a BU level organization, involving classified and unclassified programs and industrial security operations for collateral, SAP and SCI programs.

• Proven ability to lead security teams across multiple disciplines (entire program security spectrum), to include Program Industrial Security, Facility Security Officer (FSO) and Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO) duties, Information or Cyber Security, COMSEC, Physical Security, Personnel Security, International Security.

• Demonstrated experience in planning, managing, and executing complex budgets across diverse and geographically dispersed locations for security operations -to include planning budgets for complex mixtures of direct, indirect, and overhead activities.

• Demonstrated experience in development of complex security plans and proposal writing.

• Proven expertise in managing and executing Special Access Program (SAP) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security programs, to include specific expertise with SAP and SCI security Policies, Directives, Executive Orders, and all other compliance requirements for entire range of SAP and SCI arenas.

• Proven experience in planning and managing staffing and hiring processes for large teams, to include partnerships with HR, Talent Acquisition, hiring managers and program management leadership.

• Current Counterintelligence or FSP Polygraph.

Salary Range: $142,600 - $213,800

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.

Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.