Operations Research Analyst, 12619323

This job will close when we have received 100 applications which may be sooner than the closing date.

Duties

• 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.