Technical Operations Manager Jobs in California
Technical Operations Manager jobs in California are among the most active in the country, with strong demand concentrated in technology, aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, and logistics across experience levels from associate manager through senior director. The largest hiring metros are the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, where established employers like Northrop Grumman, Salesforce, and Kaiser Permanente consistently maintain technical operations teams. The most sought-after specializations in California include cloud and infrastructure operations, supply chain systems management, and regulated manufacturing environments. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
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.The Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization within the Intelligence & Services (I&S) Business Unit delivers mission-critical engineering, integration, and operations solutions for our national security and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable capabilities that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the team and help shape how we engineer, integrate, and operate the systems of tomorrow.
SE&I has an opening for a Senior Principal Technical Operations Project Manager in Redondo Beach, CA. The selected candidate will serve as an operational focal point for SE&I leadership and project teams, driving staffing and onboarding activities, team engagement, collaboration tooling, and AI-enabled workflow integration across the organization.
This position is 100% on-site.
Role and Responsibilities:
The selected candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Operational Project Support
- Support the operational aspects of ongoing SE&I projects and initiatives, acting as a liaison between project management, engineering teams, and functional/line management.
- Track and report project and organizational status (technical, schedule, and cost, as appropriate) and support preparation of regular status reports, dashboards, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain mechanisms (e.g., trackers, metrics, dashboards) for monitoring project and organizational health, and drive issue identification, escalation, and resolution with project leads and functional managers.
Staffing & Onboarding
- Coordinate staffing actions for the SE&I organization, including tracking open positions, candidate pipelines, and estimated start dates.
- Plan and execute new-hire onboarding activities, including orientation schedules, training checklists, workspace/tool access, and introductions to key stakeholders and teams.
- Coordinate with security, HR, and program teams to support clearance initiation, processing, and site access for new hires and transfers.
- Own and continuously improve standard onboarding materials, templates, and checklists to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across SE&I.
Team Engagement & Communications
- Plan, coordinate, and execute team engagement activities and events (e.g., all-hands meetings, brown bags, recognition events, offsites, and virtual engagement sessions).
- Support internal communications, including newsletters, announcements, and leadership messages, to foster connection, clarity, and transparency across SE&I.
- Partner with leadership to implement recognition and appreciation activities (awards, shout-outs, spot recognitions) that reinforce desired culture and behaviors.
SharePoint and Confluence Development
- Lead the day-to-day management, structure, and content organization of SE&I collaboration sites (SharePoint, Confluence, and related tools).
- Design and maintain intuitive, user-friendly site architectures, including document libraries, dashboards, and self-service resource areas.
- Work with technical and functional stakeholders to ensure content is accurate, current, and aligned to organizational needs (e.g., processes, templates, FAQs, reference materials).
- Define and implement standards for naming, archiving, and content lifecycle to improve findability, configuration control, and reduction of obsolete content.
AI Tool Integration & Workflow Support
- Coordinate the deployment and integration of AI tools and automation capabilities to support SE&I workflows (e.g., knowledge management, reporting, document generation, meeting support, metrics automation).
- Work with IT, security, and program stakeholders to ensure AI tools are appropriately configured, compliant, and aligned with customer and enterprise requirements.
- Support user onboarding to AI tools, including basic training, use-case documentation, and collection of feedback for continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline SE&I processes through automation and AI-enabled workflows and help define and track associated adoption and performance metrics.
Additional Responsibilities
- Support design review action tracking, follow-through, and closure, ensuring actions are clearly owned, visible, and completed on time.
- Assist with customer and stakeholder visits, including agenda development, logistics coordination, briefing material preparation, and follow-up action tracking.
- Provide coordination and tracking support for proposals and internal investments (e.g., NCTA/IRAD) aligned to SE&I initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM, business, or related discipline (e.g., Engineering, Project Management, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or similar) with 8 years of related experience in project management, program operations, technical operations, or engineering support; or a Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating complex activities across multiple stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience using collaboration and productivity tools (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) for reporting, content management, and data tracking.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing concise status reports, presentations, and communications for leadership.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions and levels.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access at the time of application
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active SCI access
- Experience supporting project or program management activities in an engineering, systems integration, or software development environment.
- Hands-on experience administering or building SharePoint and/or Confluence sites, including site structure, permissions, and content lifecycle management.
- Exposure to AI tools or automation platforms (e.g., productivity copilots, knowledge search, workflow automation) in a business or technical setting.
- Familiarity with program management frameworks (e.g., gated reviews, design reviews, PMRs, IPRs) and associated action tracking and documentation.
- Experience designing and executing onboarding and engagement strategies for distributed or matrixed technical teams.
- Basic understanding of systems engineering or engineering development lifecycles and technical review processes.
Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00 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. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.
Description
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.The Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) organization within the Intelligence & Services (I&S) Business Unit delivers mission-critical engineering, integration, and operations solutions for our national security and civil customers. We are built on a heritage of providing innovative, affordable, and reliable capabilities that our customers rely on to achieve mission success. Join the team and help shape how we engineer, integrate, and operate the systems of tomorrow.
SE&I has an opening for a Senior Principal Technical Operations Project Manager in Redondo Beach, CA. The selected candidate will serve as an operational focal point for SE&I leadership and project teams, driving staffing and onboarding activities, team engagement, collaboration tooling, and AI-enabled workflow integration across the organization.
This position is 100% on-site.
Role and Responsibilities:
The selected candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Operational Project Support
- Support the operational aspects of ongoing SE&I projects and initiatives, acting as a liaison between project management, engineering teams, and functional/line management.
- Track and report project and organizational status (technical, schedule, and cost, as appropriate) and support preparation of regular status reports, dashboards, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain mechanisms (e.g., trackers, metrics, dashboards) for monitoring project and organizational health, and drive issue identification, escalation, and resolution with project leads and functional managers.
Staffing & Onboarding
- Coordinate staffing actions for the SE&I organization, including tracking open positions, candidate pipelines, and estimated start dates.
- Plan and execute new-hire onboarding activities, including orientation schedules, training checklists, workspace/tool access, and introductions to key stakeholders and teams.
- Coordinate with security, HR, and program teams to support clearance initiation, processing, and site access for new hires and transfers.
- Own and continuously improve standard onboarding materials, templates, and checklists to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across SE&I.
Team Engagement & Communications
- Plan, coordinate, and execute team engagement activities and events (e.g., all-hands meetings, brown bags, recognition events, offsites, and virtual engagement sessions).
- Support internal communications, including newsletters, announcements, and leadership messages, to foster connection, clarity, and transparency across SE&I.
- Partner with leadership to implement recognition and appreciation activities (awards, shout-outs, spot recognitions) that reinforce desired culture and behaviors.
SharePoint and Confluence Development
- Lead the day-to-day management, structure, and content organization of SE&I collaboration sites (SharePoint, Confluence, and related tools).
- Design and maintain intuitive, user-friendly site architectures, including document libraries, dashboards, and self-service resource areas.
- Work with technical and functional stakeholders to ensure content is accurate, current, and aligned to organizational needs (e.g., processes, templates, FAQs, reference materials).
- Define and implement standards for naming, archiving, and content lifecycle to improve findability, configuration control, and reduction of obsolete content.
AI Tool Integration & Workflow Support
- Coordinate the deployment and integration of AI tools and automation capabilities to support SE&I workflows (e.g., knowledge management, reporting, document generation, meeting support, metrics automation).
- Work with IT, security, and program stakeholders to ensure AI tools are appropriately configured, compliant, and aligned with customer and enterprise requirements.
- Support user onboarding to AI tools, including basic training, use-case documentation, and collection of feedback for continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to streamline SE&I processes through automation and AI-enabled workflows and help define and track associated adoption and performance metrics.
Additional Responsibilities
- Support design review action tracking, follow-through, and closure, ensuring actions are clearly owned, visible, and completed on time.
- Assist with customer and stakeholder visits, including agenda development, logistics coordination, briefing material preparation, and follow-up action tracking.
- Provide coordination and tracking support for proposals and internal investments (e.g., NCTA/IRAD) aligned to SE&I initiatives.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM, business, or related discipline (e.g., Engineering, Project Management, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or similar) with 8 years of related experience in project management, program operations, technical operations, or engineering support; or a Master’s degree with 6 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating complex activities across multiple stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience using collaboration and productivity tools (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) for reporting, content management, and data tracking.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing concise status reports, presentations, and communications for leadership.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions and levels.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain SCI access at the time of application
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active SCI access
- Experience supporting project or program management activities in an engineering, systems integration, or software development environment.
- Hands-on experience administering or building SharePoint and/or Confluence sites, including site structure, permissions, and content lifecycle management.
- Exposure to AI tools or automation platforms (e.g., productivity copilots, knowledge search, workflow automation) in a business or technical setting.
- Familiarity with program management frameworks (e.g., gated reviews, design reviews, PMRs, IPRs) and associated action tracking and documentation.
- Experience designing and executing onboarding and engagement strategies for distributed or matrixed technical teams.
- Basic understanding of systems engineering or engineering development lifecycles and technical review processes.
Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00 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. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 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.
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The qualifications that appear most often in technical operations manager jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, or a related technical field
- Five or more years of experience in technical operations or engineering management roles
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams in a California technology or manufacturing environment
- Proficiency with ITIL frameworks, ERP systems, or lean manufacturing methodologies
- Familiarity with California environmental health and safety regulations affecting operations sites
- Strong analytical and project management skills, often evidenced by PMP or Six Sigma certification
Technical Operations Manager Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a technical operations manager in California?
Most technical operations managers in California follow a path that begins with a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or operations management, then builds several years of hands-on technical or engineering experience before moving into a management role. California employers in regulated sectors such as aerospace, medical devices, and utilities often expect familiarity with California-specific compliance standards. Advancing from a senior engineer or operations analyst role into a team lead position is the most common stepping stone.
How much do technical operations managers make in California?
Technical operations managers in California earn a median of about $218,290 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $129,970 for the lowest 10% to over $325,970 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire technical operations managers in California?
Employers hiring technical operations managers in California right now include Tesla, Google, and Anduril, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. California's concentration of technology headquarters, defense contractors, and large health systems means demand for this role is spread across multiple industries rather than a single sector.
Which California cities have the most technical operations manager jobs?
San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles account for the most technical operations manager openings in California. The Bay Area's density of technology and semiconductor companies drives the largest share of postings, while Los Angeles draws demand from aerospace, entertainment technology, and logistics firms, and San Diego's biotech and defense clusters consistently add to the count.
Are there remote technical operations manager jobs in California?
Yes, but they're less common than in purely desk-based roles because technical operations management often requires on-site oversight of infrastructure, facilities, or production environments. About 67% of technical operations manager openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of November 2026. The portions of the role most frequently offered remotely involve vendor coordination, metrics reporting, and strategic planning responsibilities.
How can I get hired as a technical operations manager in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into the role from an adjacent position such as operations analyst, IT systems administrator, or production supervisor, where you already oversee processes or small teams. Large California employers in tech and healthcare, including major Bay Area companies and health systems like Kaiser Permanente, run associate manager and rotational operations programs that accept candidates with limited direct management experience. Earning a PMP certification or completing a Six Sigma Green Belt course strengthens an application considerably in California's competitive market.
Where can I find and apply to technical operations manager jobs in California?
You can find and apply to technical operations manager jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings updated regularly. Search the listings by city or specialty to narrow results to roles that match your background, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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