U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center is Hiring an Operations Research Analyst Near Redstone, AL
About the Position: Serves as a senior analyst, project leader, technical expert, and consultant responsible for providing technical, schedule, cost, budget, and interoperability advice to management in the area of technical requirements, systems integration, program cost, schedule, acquisition strategies, and budget layout.
CONTROL POINT
This position is subject to a salary control point at to the GS-14, step 10 base salary.
Qualifications:
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
- Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
- Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
- Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
- Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
- Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
- Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
- Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is
in this document.
Basic Requirement for Operations Research Analyst 1515:Bachelor's Degree (or higher 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 have been in calculus.
In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of specialized experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as performing duties that include: 1.) Performing studies of issues arising in all phases of a system life-cycle. 2.) Using operation and research methods to review/analyzes in order to propose problem-solving techniques for technology, schedule and risk. 3.) Planning, directing, and conducting cost and schedule risk analyses to ensure integration processes are identified. And 4) Review and staffing of Acquisition Milestone Documents for all programs to include multiple acquisition pathways and phases. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade level/equivalent to the NH-03 or GS-13 grade level in the Federal Service.
CONTROL POINT
This position is subject to a salary control point at the GS-14, step 10 base salary. Salary for the position will be set within a range from $127,073 to $165,197 with locality. If the incumbent's salary currently exceeds this level, the salary will be at the incumbent's existing salary.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Communications
- Cost Estimation and Analysis
- Data Analysis
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