Operations Research Analyst with Security Clearance

Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

The AUKUS, Submarines, and Industrial Base Group (ASIG), within the Sea, Land, Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to Director Submarine Program directorates and key stakeholders surrounding submarine platform construction.

Director Submarine Program unifies submarine platform procurement activities, which includes the Columbia-class SSBN program (a Major Defense Acquisition Program and the Navy's top acquisition priority), the Virginia-class SSN program, the new SSN-X program (developing the next generation attack submarine), and the AUKUS Integration and Acquisition Office, to bring improved capabilities to our undersea forces.

Analysts and Engineers supporting Director Submarine Program will continue SPA's decades of support to the SSBN force, as well as supporting oversight of cutting-edge attack submarine construction, assisting in developing the design requirements for the SSN platform of the future, and helping plan and execute new and innovative strategies to strengthen the critical submarine shipbuilding industrial base. These are high-profile, major acquisition and manufacturing programs of significant importance to the future capabilities of the US Navy in an era of renewed strategic competition.

SPA has an immediate need for a Navy Recruiting Command Operations Research Analyst in Millington, TN. #MC Responsibilities The successful candidate will support Navy Recruiting Command's N3 in applying operations research, numerical, and statistical analysis techniques (including coding) to support recruiting programs and initiatives; Analyze recruiting data and report mission performance trends to command leadership; Perform mathematical modeling, specifically with regression and classification methods, to include CART, in order to build predictive models; Understand, create and execute critical path analysis, plans of action and milestones (POAMs), deliverable time-lines, user reports, dashboards, and communications plans from applicable Navy Recruiting Command tools and data.

Qualifications Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, business, law, engineering, social sciences, physical/applied science, or management discipline such as business administration, accounting, finance, economics or management information technology
• 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience in data or statistical analysis, or business process improvement
• Extensive experience with coding languages (SQL, Python, R, Excel) to create models and data analytic tools
• Secret clearance
• Ability to work independently on projects Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with product development for executive level leadership
• Knowledge of the Navy Recruiting process
• Cost estimation experience