Senior Cost Engineer and Data Analyst

About the role

At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds’ hardest engineering problems. Our culture encourages employees to dream big, perform with excellence and create incredible products.

The Predictive Analytics and Cost Engineering (PACE) team is a data science and analytics team that combines technical engineering attributes and financial information to create data-driven cost estimates for program capture and support. The PACE team collects, normalizes and maps data to a standard work breakdown structure (WBS) to perform data analytics for internal and external customer support and deliverables.

Responsibilities

This role will include technical data collection, executing cost models, dashboard building/automation, and communicating results to stakeholders. This role will primarily support captures and programs in the Strategic Missile and Defense (SMD) Line of Business (LOB) and may include opportunities to support other LOBs across Space.

• Understand and implement proven cost models on relevant captures
• Perform cross-checks for program estimates
• Develop and deploy dashboards leveraged by the team
• Develop and present results to colleagues and senior staff
• Coordinate with Engineering, Business Development, Program Finance, Estimating, Proposal Management, and ICE around model results
• Become knowledgeable and available to answer questions around cost estimates and cost drivers
• Work shoulder to shoulder with data science analysts building and enhancing tools/capabilities for efficiency and effectiveness

Requirements

• Ability to obtain Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Finance, Math, Operations Research, or any other field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly detail-oriented with ability to balance multiple tasks at once
• High degree of accountability and responsibility with the ability to be a self-starter
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office Excel & PowerPoint
• Experience with and understanding of one or more of the following: cost models, data collection, data analytics, systems engineering and/or finance

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance desired
• Experience with Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, or Alteryx
• Experience with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
• Technical degree with business acumen – able to interpret cost and technical data, recognize their interdependencies, and apply them in forecasting models
• Knowledge of financial systems, analysis, statistics, etc.
• Experience working within the space systems industry
• Ability to communicate technically oriented material to broader team
• Familiarity with proposal development and/or the government acquisition process
• Strong team collaboration and leadership skills

Benefits

Ability to work remotely, with the option to work onsite full-time at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.