Data and Performance Analyst

Position Title: Data and Performance Analyst Location: Arlington, Virginia Category: Funded Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time Travel Required: Yes Shift: Day Remote Type: Hybrid Clearance required: Top Secret Salary: $135,000 - $151,392 Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us! Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Data and Performance Analyst to provide the integration of production and supplier data, and deliver traceable dashboards and exception analysis. Responsibilities: Production and Supplier Data Collection:  Work with the BOND team, assigned PAE, program offices, prime contractors, and suppliers to define data requirements for the weapon or weapon system under review.  Collect and validate production schedules, output, cycle and takt time, work in process, yield, scrap and rework, downtime, labor, tooling, material, quality, test, and supplier-delivery data.  Map data across the prime contractor and critical lower-tier suppliers; reconcile definitions, reporting periods, part identifiers, and conflicting source information.  Identify material data gaps, establish repeatable collection processes, and document source, lineage, assumptions, limitations, and confidence levels.  Maintain secure, traceable, and reproducible data sets and analytical products in accordance with Government requirements.  Production Performance and Root-Cause Analysis:  Establish current-state production, capacity, throughput, schedule, quality, and supplier-performance baselines for the assigned program or system.  Compare planned and actual performance; analyze trends, variance, queue time, flow, yield, utilization, and leading indicators of delivery risk.  Identify bottlenecks and root causes associated with material, workforce, equipment, tooling, facilities, test, quality, engineering, or lower-tier suppliers.  Assess the feasibility and likely production impact of recovery plans, capacity expansions, process changes, investments, and supplier interventions.  Develop forecasts, scenarios, and early-warning indicators that clarify risks to production rates, milestones, and weapon-system deliveries.  Improvement Recommendations and Decision Support:  Build production dashboards, scorecards, constraint views, and recurring reports tailored to the BOND team, PAE, program managers, and senior DASN DIB leaders.  Recommend prioritized actions to improve production flow, throughput, quality, schedule performance, supplier reliability, and constraint visibility.  Track approved corrective actions, owners, milestones, measures,…