Cost Analyst/Estimator – TS/SCI Clearance w/CI Poly Required

About the role

Leffler Consulting is seeking a Cost Analyst/Estimator to join our team in Chantilly providing support to national security satellite ground systems. This position is an immediate opening and will reside full-time on-site with the government customer. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a CI polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

• Apply the principles, theories, and methods of cost estimation and analysis
• Develop cost estimates, collect data, and develop models/methods for space systems and their associated ground and launch systems across multiple space related product lines
• Perform cost estimating using parametric approaches, with preference for space system experience (including software estimating)
• Conduct tool development using COTS (i.e., Microsoft Excel), custom code, or FOSS (i.e., R, Python)
• Utilize product-oriented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to evaluate technical baseline, assumptions, and risks
• Evaluate contractor engineering change proposals
• Perform forward pricing rate and corporate indirect rate analysis
• Develop government independent cost estimates
• Conduct assessments on program cost, technical, and schedule baselines, identify key cost and technical risk areas, and translate the risk areas into program cost impacts
• Support development of program office estimates to support the annual budget build
• Affordability assessments
• Analysis of Alternatives
• Data collection and normalization
• Perform cost improvement curve analysis, uncertainty analysis, and inflation analysis
• Apply advanced statistical techniques and interact with customers and colleagues expertly and effectively to resolve problems
• Apply leadership skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, multiple tasks, and work environments
• Perform other duties as assigned to support corporate and customer initiatives

Skills

• Strong analytical background and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, operations research, cost analysis, mathematics, finance, economics, business administration, or similar quantitative field.
• Years of required cost estimating experience vary according to position level