SME B-2 Cost Estimator

Job Description:

This position will support the B-2 Program as part of the Fighters & Bombers Directorate. Duties include:

• Assist in planning, organizing, completing, and presenting cost estimates for all phases of division acquisition programs/projects from inception through disposal.

• Assist in performing materiel solution analyses leading up to design reviews; and support development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule, and performance.

• Provide cost estimate expertise (technical advice and guidance) while performing cost estimate planning and analysis for complex programs having extensive program and financial relationships with other programs and complex funding requirements. Program cost estimates may be in support of annual or biennial estimates, MPLCC estimates for source selection evaluation, quick-turnaround "what-if “ estimates, CAIV, should/will cost reviews, RTOC, or other EA.

• Support process phases including: task definition and planning; data research, collection, and analysis; formalizing an estimate; and reviewing, presenting and documenting. Estimates shall be done using the most appropriate technique available for each cost element of the estimate. The general estimating methodologies are: parametric, analogy, expert opinion, and grassroots.

• Work with the Government to maintain the integrity of listed financial databases (such as REMIS) by assisting with reconciliation and basis of estimate information within the database

• Assist cost estimating team members in developing program definitions needed for cost estimates, including program acquisition strategies, WBS, Cost WBS, ground rules, assumptions, and constraints.

• Support the development of Cist Estimating Relationships (CER) and factors using historical B-2 data and maintain/update the existing B-2 cost estimating database and CERs.

• Support the program office in accomplishing production and modification cost estimates for funded annual POM/Future Year Defense Program/Plan inputs, PB, and BES input.

• Support the program office in formulating "should cost" /"will cost" analyses on programs and determining the potential should cost initiatives effect on the cost estimate.

Required Skills/Education:

• Fifteen (15) years' experience in functional area and possess a Bachelor's degree in a field relevant to functional area; or a relevant Master's degree and twelve (12) years' experience in functional area; or twenty (20) years in functional area without a degree. At least five (5) years of that experience must have been performed on DoD programs/projects.

• Ten (10) years of experience with ACAT 1 financial management and cost estimation, including working with Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA) and OSD Cost Analysis and Program Execution (CAPE) estimation methodologies and processes.

• Understand appropriations, PPBE, and EVM

- Experience with estimating tools including but not limited to: ACEIT, PRICE " TruePlanning" parametric modeling, Constructive Cost Model, and Oracle Crystal Ball, and AF- maintained databases such as AFTOC and REMIS.

Education: Bachelors Degree

Years’ Experience: 15 Years

Travel: Yes

Security Clearance Required: Must have Active Secret clearance to apply.

Position Type: Full Time

Work Location: WPAFB

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