Operations Research Analyst

Responsibilities

Sabre Systems is seeking an experienced Operations Research Analyst to support the NAVAIR Sustainment Group (NSG) at Patuxent River, MD. The selected candidate will be dual‑hatted, 50/50, as the Reliability Control Board (RCB) Tech Lead and the Sustainment Analytics Tech Lead
. The candidate will provide analytical and decision‑support capabilities to the Analytics Division Director and senior Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) leadership. This role focuses on developing and applying data‑driven tools, metrics, and analysis to improve naval aviation readiness, optimize sustainment investments, and reduce lifecycle costs for aircraft and weapons systems supporting Sailors and Marines. This position requires the ability to manage complex analytical projects and apply advanced readiness and cost analysis techniques to provide Navy leadership with “best value” alternatives that optimize resources while meeting current and future readiness requirements.

This position is required to be in‑person, on‑site at NAVAIR Headquarters building # 2272. This is a temporary duty position with the expectations of 8–12 months duration and will be replaced by a government civilian. The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI eligible security clearance.

• Support development and alignment of data, metrics, and analytical tools for NAE Flag Officer/SES forums and NAE North Star performance metrics, ensuring readiness and sustainment alignment across NAVAIR, Business Units, and PEOs.
• Provide subject matter expertise with the NAE Center for Analytics at NAVAIR Headquarters.
• Develop and improve logistics forecasting methods, analytical tools, databases, and processes supporting sustainment decision‑making.
• Analyze logistics and maintenance data to identify opportunities to optimize readiness, logistics effectiveness, and resource utilization across naval aviation systems.
• Support development of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) strategies and conduct Logistics Support Assessments (LSAs) to translate logistics data into actionable insights for leadership.
• Develop project approaches, analytical models, and data requirements to support readiness assessments and logistics analysis efforts.
• Develop & align data, metrics, analytical tools & processes in direct support of the NAE Flag Officer/SES forums and the NAE North Stars/HUDs led by Sustainment Group.
• Align the readiness & sustainment metrics across NAVAIR, Business Units, PEOs to higher echelon requirements to achieve desired outcomes (CAA, P2P, NIF, GFM, NSB, SPB)...
• Develop and improve logistics forecasting/analysis methods, tools, databases, and processes.
• Identify the kind and degree of logistics support changes required to optimize readiness and logistics support effectiveness for in‑service support of naval aviation weapons systems.
• Provide in‑depth advice and consultation in the process of developing Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) strategies, phase‑in schedules, procedures and ILS in‑puts to optimize resources and readiness.
• Develop and present a project approach and plan for logistics analysis efforts and for estimating resource requirements to accomplish the assigned tasks. These plans will define logistics analysis models and quantitative techniques to be used, specific types of data required, and probable data sources.

• Senior analyst supporting the Reliability Control Board (RCB) Technical Operations and Data Analytics team, applying engineering principles and advanced analytics to enterprise readiness and reliability efforts.
• Provides analytical leadership in support of RCB execution, including degrader analysis, root cause assessment, corrective action evaluation, and development of decision‑quality products for RCB forums.
• Ensures alignment of analytical methods, tools, and outputs with RCB governance and enterprise sustainment objectives.
• The incumbent serves as a senior enterprise analyst with an engineering foundation, responsible for leading complex readiness, reliability, and sustainment analyses that inform senior…