Senior Cost Engineer/Estimator (TS/SCI Clearance w/CI Poly Required)

Senior Cost Engineer/Estimator (TS/SCI Clearance w/CI Poly Required)

Location

Chantilly, VA

Job Description

Leffler Consulting is seeking a seasoned Cost Engineer/Estimator to join our team in Chantilly providing technical support to national security satellite ground systems. This position is an immediate fill and will reside on-site with the government customer. SIGINT or GEOINT experience is a plus! An active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly is required.

Duties

• Apply the technical principles, theories, and methods of cost estimation and analysis
• Develop cost estimates, collect data, and develop models/methods for space systems and their associated ground and launch systems across multiple space related product lines
• Perform cost estimating using parametric approaches, with preference for space system experience (including software estimating)
• Conduct tool development using COTS (i.e., Microsoft Excel), custom code, or FOSS (i.e., R, Python)
• Utilize product-oriented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to evaluate technical baseline, assumptions, and risks
• Evaluate contractor engineering change proposals
• Perform forward pricing rate and corporate indirect rate analysis
• Develop government independent cost estimates
• Conduct assessments on program cost, technical, and schedule baselines, identify key cost and technical risk areas, and translate the risk areas into program cost impacts
• Support development of program office estimates to support the annual budget build
• Affordability assessments
• Analysis of Alternatives
• Data collection and normalization
• Perform cost improvement curve analysis, uncertainty analysis, and inflation analysis
• Apply advanced statistical techniques and interact with customers and colleagues expertly and effectively to resolve problems
• Apply leadership skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, multiple tasks, and work environments
• Perform other duties as assigned to support corporate and customer initiatives

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Required Experience

• A minimum of 11 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: ground system cost estimating, software cost estimating, parametric and analogy estimating, data collection and normalization, and cost method and model development.
• GEOINT and SIGINT experience preferred.

Desired Education

• Refer to “Required Experience”

Founded in 2001, Leffler Consulting is a women-owned small business (WOSB) headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We provide financial management and life-cycle budget and cost support to our nation’s most critical programs in the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). Leffler Consulting specializes in all areas of financial management, audit readiness, and process improvement and controls while also providing a broad array of support functions critical to supporting the mission requirements of our customers. We offer competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage, paid leave, paid holidays, an employee assistance program, and an employee referral program.