Senior Principal Project Manager – Staffing Lead

Description

The company's aeronautics systems unit is hiring a Senior Principal Project Manager, Staffing Lead for its program organization in Rancho Bernardo, California.

You would be the central coordinator for workforce planning, staffing integration, reporting, and resource management.

The role calls for a self-directed, organized person with experience in workforce planning, project management, staffing operations, resource management, or data analysis, who can coordinate across functions, analyze data, communicate clearly, and present to executives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate staffing and workforce planning with program, functional, finance, HR, and talent acquisition groups.
• Keep a current staffing plan and set out responses to gaps, surpluses, scarce skills, single points of failure, and long-open vacancies.
• Handle requisitions from creation and activation through candidate tracking, status reconciliation, and closure.
• Merge forecasts, requisition status, staffing demand, and resource figures into one accurate staffing view for program leaders.
• Build and maintain dashboards, metrics, reports, and executive presentations that link staffing to cost, schedule, technical performance, and priorities.
• Run recurring staffing and resource reviews: prepare materials, present workforce risks and opportunities, record decisions, and follow actions to closure.
• Check workforce skill mix and labor categories against contract terms, staffing plans, and program baselines.
• Work with functional leaders, finance, HR, talent acquisition, and program teams to fix staffing mismatches while balancing cost, capability, and timing.
• Lead integrated teams in finding and managing staffing risks and opportunities, such as skill gaps, coverage problems, hiring delays, and resource limits.
• Maintain near-term and long-range staffing forecasts that match program priorities and changing business needs.
• Improve staffing processes, reporting, data quality, and cycle times through standardization, automation, and workforce-management tools.
• Advise senior management on workforce strategy, staffing trade-offs, resource scenarios, and mitigation options.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus at least 8 years of relevant military or professional experience in workforce planning, staffing, resource management, project management, business or program operations, or data analytics.
• Or a master's degree plus at least 6 years of relevant military or professional experience in those or related areas, including workforce planning, staffing coordination, resource management, requisition management, project management, operations, or data analytics.
• Or a doctoral degree plus at least 4 years of relevant military or professional experience in those or related areas, including the support work listed above.
• Experience gathering, reconciling, analyzing, and presenting workforce or resource data from several sources.
• Ability to build clear reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations for leadership audiences.
• Strong organization, communication, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California.
• Must be able to obtain a US Government Secret or higher clearance, with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or current enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
• Preferred: experience with workforce-planning, applicant-tracking, resource-management, business-intelligence, reporting, or data-visualization tools.
• Preferred: staffing or resource planning in aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, technology, government contracting, or another complex or regulated setting.
• Preferred: coordinating staffing across several functions, teams, projects, or locations.
• Preferred: a record of improving staffing processes, reporting accuracy, hiring cycle times, resource use, or workforce metrics.
• Preferred: assessing staffing effects on cost, schedule, technical performance, and operational objectives.
• Preferred: presenting recommendations to senior leaders or executive audiences.
• Preferred: scenario planning, workforce forecasting, risk management, or resource optimization experience.

Conditions

Full-time, onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

No relocation assistance is offered.

No clearance is required to start, and the clearance type is none.

Base salary range is $117,500.00 to $176,300.00 as a general guideline. The actual offer depends on scope and responsibilities, experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, possible eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses that reward individual contributions and let employees share in company results.
• Possible Long Term Incentives for Vice President or Director positions.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, and a savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and personal business.