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 Space Systems is seeking an Industrial Security Manager 2/Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO) for our Colorado Springs, CO location.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Develops and administers security programs and procedures for classified or proprietary materials, documents, and equipment.

• Studies and implements federal security regulations that apply to company operations.

• Obtains rulings, interpretations, and acceptable deviations for compliance with regulations from government agencies.

• Prepares manuals outlining regulations, and establishes procedures for handling, storing, and keeping records, and for granting personnel and visitors access to restricted records and materials.

• Develops and implements security education program.

• Oversees internal security audits.

• Investigates security violations and prepares reports specifying preventive action to be taken.

• Provides direction to security team members to assist with the execution of their statement of work.

• Assist with team members' professional development and growth.

• Leading a team of security professionals to ensure consistent application of the leadership characteristics that are expected of all employees within the organization.

• Ensuring employee engagement across the team, Collaboration across teams within the Security organization.

• Providing leadership, guidance, and professional development/mentoring to professionals at all levels.

• Developing and implementing security policy and standards across the program enterprise.

• Ensuring all program performance objectives as well as key milestones and deliverables are met.

• Supporting security leaderships budget within an established target.

• Manage program security compliance and operations across multiple functions, Physical Security, COMSEC, Investigations and Document Control Management.

Basic Qualifications:

• Eight years of relevant security experience with Bachelor's degree or six years of relevant security experience with Master's degree. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience may be considered.

• Candidate must be a US citizen, have and be able to maintain an active U.S. Government security clearance at the Top Secret level with a background investigation date within 5 years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior compartmentalized security (SAP or SCI) experience.

• CDSE Industrial Security Training - FSO for Possessing Facilities, Intro to SAP, SAP Compliance, SAP Mid-Level, etc.

• Excellent customer service and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently and follow projects through to completion.

• Ability to maintain flexibility to deal with changing priorities and deadlines.

• Experience leading or mentoring other personnel in a team environment.

• Strong working knowledge of basic office automation tool suites such as MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• OPSEC program experience.

• Self-starter with minimal supervision.

• Excellent communication skills speaking, writing skills and organized skills enabling effective communications.

• Computer and desktop office software products experience.

• Classification review experience.

Salary Range: $114,100 - $171,100

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.