Operations Research Analyst/Cost Tech Expert

About the role

The Air Force Civilian Service (AFCS) seeks a Full-Time OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST/COST TECH EXPERT to join the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) within the F-35 Joint Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an Operations Research Analyst/Cost Tech Expert estimator within an ACAT I Joint Program overseeing US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps requirements.
• Performs a broad range of operations research analyses assignments entailing unique problems, creativity, innovative use of techniques, advanced approaches, and/or new technologies.
• Establishes assumptions, measures of effectiveness of approaches, and evaluates available alternatives.
• Analyzes the feasibility of advanced analytical approaches or radically different proposed policies.
• Defines problems and develops and coordinates study plans.
• Determines source data and sample sizes.
• Plans, designs, and conducts tests to obtain data.
• Compiles, organizes, and analyzes large amounts of complex data.
• Utilizes scientific inquiry in the independent development of mathematical models and computer programs to evaluate and predict the ability to support assigned projects, studies, or problems.
• Serves as an expert on modeling and simulation techniques.
• Provides technical guidance, advisory support, and assistance on an entire project and/or major phases for broad and varied operations.
• Performs very complex, difficult studies/evaluations on an individual basis or as a team member/leader responsible for completing phases of an overall work effort.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Obtain & maintain SECRET Security clearance
• DoDFM certification Level III
• IDAWIA Certification FM Level II

Qualifications

• Positive education requirement: Degree in operation research or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operation research, Mathematics, Probability, Statistics, Mathematical Logic, Science, or subject-matter course requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics.
• At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in Calculus.