Can you translate quantitative data into insight? If so, we want you to join our growing Business Analytics team at Quantech Services, Inc. Quantech has an immediate opening for a Cost Estimator Associate supporting AF Nuclear Weapons Center operations at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE.
Specific duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Collaborate with a team of Quantech cost analysts & subject matter experts on a variety of projects.
- Develop life cycle cost estimates for DoD weapon system programs.
- Analyze historical data and develop analogies and cost estimating relationships using regression analysis.
- Understand technology trends and analyze impact on cost.
- Analyze software program progress tracking tools (JIRA, Microsoft TFS, etc.) and develop metrics and insights for program managers.
- Interview functional specialists in support of estimating methodology development.
- Develop risk distributions for cost driver variables & cost estimating relationship equations.
- Analyze program schedules and quantify schedule uncertainty.
- Study, analyze, and develop metrics for complex modern software development programs.
- Build complex spreadsheet-based program cost models used as decision analysis tools.
- Apply statistics concepts to quantify the probability of success for program budget and schedule plans.
- Conduct business case analyses, trade studies and economic analyses.
- Assist program managers in development and execution of contract strategies and program plans.
Candidate Strengths:
- Proficient in analyzing datasets and developing statistical models, but also able to tackle problems by thinking outside of the box.
- Technical fast learner with the ability to communicate with multiple functional teams to gather (programmatic/technical) data and translate it into cost impacts for the government.
- Experienced problem solver, comfortable working in ambiguous environments with the ability to lead financial focused conversations with cross functional teams.
- Approachable team player with the skillset to successfully work a variety of projects and take direction from multiple sources at once.