The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking an Operations Research Analyst to provide technical and operations research advisory services to management officials and Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) teams. This role will involve identifying and investigating complex problems, developing study plans, and performing quantitative and statistical analysis to support decision-making in areas such as procurement, finance, and distribution.
Requirements
- Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must been in calculus.
- Applying analytical techniques to solve a variety of projects.
- Applying operations research techniques such as mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, linear and nonlinear programming, simulation, decision support methodologies, and probability theory.
- Applying advanced mathematical and other scientific management analysis techniques to solve portions of difficult and complex projects.
- Developing recommendations based on study results and provides management with new decision support systems and/or strategic business information and predictive advice concerning alternative courses of action for resolving moderately complex operational system problems.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a technical and operations research advisor to management officials and DLA's Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) teams, branch chiefs and other analysts.
- Serves as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on quantitative, machine learning and operations research contract study efforts administered by ACE, as required.
- Identifies specific concepts and develop procedures for investigating problems of a significant nature, which may be broadly stated or ill-defined.
- Prepares study plans which define study efforts by providing the background, description, approach, project milestones, resource requirements and costs for each study.
- Performs quantitative, statistical analysis and operations research studies requiring the application of such techniques as mathematical modeling, linear and nonlinear programming, simulation, decision theory and machine learning theory.
- Conducts, organizes, directs and coordinates analytical studies in a primary business (e.g., procurement, finance, distribution, et al) area that often incorporate factors from other functional areas.
Other
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
- Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
- Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
