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Operations Research Analyst (Direct Hire)
John F. Kennedy Space Center · Posted today
HybridKennedy Space Center, FL$90K – $139KApply by May 26, 2026Operations ResearchINFJINTJINTPEngineeringOperations
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Serves as an Operations Research Analyst in the Master Planning and Integration Branch, within the Spaceport Development Division. Provide support development of a centralized spaceport model, integrate technical requirements into planning, modeling, and analysis, while tracking impacts to spaceport common use infrastructure. Evaluate operations impacts from increased launch activity and help identify operational risks associated with future missions and help inform future spaceport investments.
What You'll Do
- →Duties described below are at the highest grade advertised.
- →Duties assigned at lower grade levels will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee.
- →Identifies assumptions, capabilities, and limitations of planning and analysis tools and methodologies such as 3-D modeling, discrete event simulation, Monte Carlo simulations, ArcGIS, and technical analysis of spaceport operations.
- →Participates in the development of products ranging from those that detail strategic risk considerations to those that detail planning support for government and commercial partner development and operations.
- →Applies a variety of computational methodologies to address operations research problems and development of resource allocation models, data profiling, trend analysis, simulation, capacity projections, and classification models.
- →Assists development of products ranging from those that detail strategic risk considerations to those that detail planning support for government and commercial partner development and operations.
- →Utilizes competencies with intelligent / adaptive systems, simulation systems, software engineering, aerospace engineering, mathematical reasoning, modeling and simulation, research, planning, and evaluating.
- →Supports the SME for integration and incorporation of data from evolving requirements, interfacing with existing KSC engineering/operations models, identifying resources required and associated limitations.
- →Assists with the development and maintenance of an overall interactive, centralized, dynamic, and comprehensive spaceport model.
- →Participates in system modeling of current and projected impacts on Center common use infrastructure capacity for areas such as power, wastewater, and propellants, as well as monitoring land use, transportation routes and natural resources.
Requirements
- ✓At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.Courses acceptable for qualifying for operations research positions may have been taken in departments other than Operations Research, e.g., Engineering (usually Industrial Engineering), Science, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or Management Science.
- ✓U.S. degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.
Personality Fit
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