
Principal Operations Research Analyst
Northrop Grumman
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Linthicum • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $98,900 - $148,300 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Engage with various proposal teams across the Mission Systems Sector as you help to build up Material and Labor cost estimates.
- Develop in-house tools/solutions to drive efficiency and maintain compliance with FAR/DFAR requirements.
- Analyze data and develop sector wide cost factors and cost estimating relationships, while assisting in bringing estimating into the S4 environment.
- Primary responsibility to develop and maintain material and factory labor cost factors and cost estimating relationships (such as SARM, material quantity adjustment curve, and escalation).
- Secondarily, coordinate the preparation and documentation of priced Bill of Material (BOM) and Factory Labor cost estimate developments as required.
- Validate estimating approach and participate in customer negotiations.
- Analyze historical data and perform ad hoc data mining and analytics.
- Support Estimating System and Proposal Audits as well as Customer Fact Finding ensuring TINA compliance during all aspects of the proposal process.
- Support Estimating transition of Tools and Methods from ERP2 to S4 Hana environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree plus 5 years of experience in pricing, operations, business management, or a related field (i.e. supply chain, etc.)
- OR a Master of Science degree plus 3 years of experience as described above.
- Experience w/VBA & SQL in Access and Excel
- US Citizenship is required
- The ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.
Benefits
- Health Plan
- Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Education Assistance
- Training and Development
- 9/80 Work Schedule (where available)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
cost estimatingdata analysisad hoc data miningcost factorscost estimating relationshipsVBASQLExcelS4 HanaBill of Material
Soft Skills
communicationnegotiationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detail
Certifications
DoD Secret security clearance