Information Systems Cost Estimator (Principal)

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation's top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom". And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Cost Estimator (Principal) located in Kettering, OH (Dayton, WPAFB) to support our EPASS GB contract. As part of the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate, the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Initiative (MRO) is a DOTMLPF-P transformation and standardization of both the business processes and enabling materiel solution which provides Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) with an integrated capability for planning, scheduling and executing organic depot maintenance to support agile planning, optimized workload assignment, resource allocation and integrated quality. The MRO materiel solution is a web-enabled system operating wholly within the .mil network. It implements a configured Oracle enterprise Business Suite (eBS) Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software product with 'complex MRO' being the core module for user interaction. This is supplemented with the integration of other necessary eBS suite modules plus Reports, Interfaces, Conversions and Extensions (RICE) objects which are deemed necessary to provide the required functionality. MRO implementation is divided into four software releases with capabilities to plan, schedule and execute organic depot maintenance processes within the commodities, electronics, missile and propulsion maintenance groups. MRO replaces dissimilar legacy systems and processes used across numerous geographic locations with a common enterprise business system that optimizes resource and workload assignments, facilitates what- if planning and frees-up logistics capacities aimed at improving capabilities availability to the warfighter. MRO operates within a Defense Information System Agency (DISA) hosted environment and interfaces with various legacy systems to support continuous operations within the depot maintenance environment.

As a Cost Estimator (Principal), your duties include, but are not limited to:

The contractor shall have the ability to manage, oversee/lead, or perform scientific work that involves designing, developing, and adapting mathematical, statistical, econometric, and other scientific methods and techniques. The work also involves analyzing management problems and providing advice and insight about the probable effects of alternative solutions to these problems. The primary requirement of the work is competence in the rigorous methods of scientific inquiry and analysis. The contractor shall have professional knowledge of, and skill in, applying a wide range of theories, concepts, and methods of analytical, mathematical, or statistical principles and practices to IT MIS programs, specifically, including knowledge of:

• Use of routine cost estimating methods such as analogy, engineering or scientific methodology, and extrapolation.

• Use of cost estimating outputs to assess the impact various factors have on the costs to design, research, develop, operate, maintain, and dispose of a particular weapon system;

• Most appropriate phase of the budgetary cycle (planning, programming, justification, or execution) for initiating new programs;

• Analyzing all elements affecting costs for a project of limited scope;

• Analyzing contractor financial data using EVM measures of merit to determine program viability with respect cost and schedule performance;

• Use of the ACEIT Tool Suite to perform all program office estimates which is mandatory use for working in the BES Directorate (AFLCMC/GB) for all information systems cost estimator positions (Junior, Journeyman, Senior, Principal, Hybrid); and, Analytical processes, such as:

  • Setting up the problem,

  • Conducting background research,

  • Collecting and reducing data,

  • Displaying data for analysis,

  • Formulating mathematical expressions, and,

  • Drawing conclusions.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship

• BS/BA/Masters with 24 semester hours in quantitative analysis courses which must include at least three semester hours of Calculus and three semester hours in Statistics.

• Masters Degree in a related field with at least three years of IT management information systems acquisition cost analysis experience and two years of team management experience, OR

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field with at least ten years of IT management information systems acquisition cost analysis experience and two years of team management experience.

• Possess the necessary expert experience to provide support in planning, organizing advising, and conducting IT management information systems cost estimating/training tasks in problem areas of moderate scope and complexity. The problems are difficult to define and may require novel approaches and the use of sophisticated techniques. Contractor shall:

• Have moderately extensive technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments;
• Keep abreast of new IT management information systems cost estimating methodologies, databases, and tools;
• Make technical cost estimating decisions which are considered authoritative and demonstrate mature cost estimating judgment in anticipating and solving complex cost analysis problems;
• Have the technical capability to assess the cost and schedule implications of existing and projected technological advances;

• Be able to evaluate the impact of new and innovative acquisition strategies.

• Must have experience using the Automated Cost Estimating and Integrated Tool (ACEIT) Suite - Required

• Must have experience building and communicating Program Office Estimates (POEs) - Required

• Must have experience using the Automated Cost Estimating and Integrated Tool (ACEIT) Suite - Required

• Use of the Automated Cost Estimating and Integrated Tool (ACEIT) Suite is a must capability and skill set for the cost analysts working this task order for the BES Directorate programs. All labor categories except for the entry-level position shall have experienced, knowledge, capability of the ACEIT Tool Suite in building program office estimates (POE).

• Must have experience building and communicating Program Office Estimates (POEs) - Required

• Must possess and maintain a T1/NACI security clearance.

Schedule:(M-F; 8-5)

Work Location: Onsite at Kettering, OH (Dayton/WPAFB)

Travel:0-10%

Relocation Assistance Available: No

Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No

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Benefits:

Torch Technologies is proud to offer a stable and professional work environment, a competitive salary, and an excellent, comprehensive benefit package including: ESOP participation, 401(k) match and safe-harbor contribution, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, Health Saving Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts, EAP, education assistance, paid time off, and holidays.

Applying to Torch Technologies:

Only those candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check.

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