Operations Research Analyst- (OD-2)

About the role

Legato, LLC recruiters (Staffing@legatocorp.com) would love to speak with you regarding the following position: Operations Research Analyst in Fort Meade, MD. Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Passionate about exploring the root cause of an issue and analyzing, reporting, and developing recommendations for creative solutions.
• Help solve complex analytical problems, assist with developing process improvement solutions, and create applications and tools to enhance productivity.
• Guide a team to develop study plans, conduct research, create models and tools, brief decision makers, and write reports.
• Use your passion for analytics and statistics to devise modeling and measuring techniques utilizing mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, operational mathematics techniques such as linear programming, simulation, task automation, and other principles and laws of scientific and economic disciplines.
• Develop technologies and concepts that advance efficiencies for customers.

Requirements

• At least ten (10) years of experience with conducting analysis of management and operational problems using operations research techniques.
• Four (4) years of experience with the application of modeling and simulation to address decision analysis problems.
• Four (4) years of experience conducting multiple objective decision analysis or cost benefit analysis in support of research objectives.
• Four (4) years of experience with PANDAS, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, OCTAVE, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, EXTENDSIM, SAS, NETICA, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSS.
• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field.
• Desired Experience:
  • Experience with developing and performing verification and validation of models to ensure adequacy.
  • Experience developing and delivering training materials for operations research techniques.
  • Experience conducting problem definition and gathering data requirements from stakeholders.
  • Experience briefing results and preparing written reports on analytic approaches and methodologies.
  • Experience with the use of machine learning and large language models to solve complex problems.
• Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field.

Qualifications

Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph.

Skills

• Operations Research Techniques
• Modeling and Simulation
• Multiple Objective Decision Analysis
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• PANDAS, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, OCTAVE, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, EXTENDSIM, SAS, NETICA, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSS
• Machine Learning and Large Language Models

Benefits

Legato, LLC offers a generous benefits package including individual and family health, vision and dental benefits. A minimum of four (4) weeks of paid time off including a week of sick leave. Legato gives our employees 11 federal holidays off and a 401(k) employer match with no vesting schedule. There is an opportunity to earn referral benefits or bank hours if the contract allows.

Pay

The salary range provided is an estimate based on current market conditions and may be adjusted based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. The final salary offer will be determined after a thorough review of the candidate's background and alignment with the role.

Schedule

Not specified.