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About Veolia North America
A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water, and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website www.veolianorthamerica.com.
Job Description
BENEFITS
Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.
Position Purpose:
The Data Scientist position is a perfect introduction for an individual aspiring to get into the data science field. The Data Scientist will work with a team of analysts, engineers and other data scientists analyzing data, observing trends and solving issues related to building optimization. This position comes with a potential career growth trajectory as well as exciting challenges and opportunities.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
• Collecting, cleaning and structuring data and coordinating with the Meter Data Management and the Business Solutions teams.
• Transforming data into a new format to make it more appropriate for analysis.
• Building tools to automate data collection.
• Analyzing large data sets for usable patterns and information.
• Creating dashboards and live reports to share with internal stakeholders and customers.
• Employ data science toolkits to build utility predictive models.
• Correlating similar data to find actionable results.
• Understanding when a business problem can be completely or partially solved using data.
• Turning business problems into a data science projects that solve that problem and presenting the results in a digestible form for decision makers.
• Creatively incorporating open-source and web-based data sources into projects for improved insights.
• Assess data quality and suitability for analytics and address issues with rigorously (e.g. with appropriate missing data imputation procedures for missing data).
• Independently manage projects and work with stakeholders to lead projects to completion.
• Ability to establish priorities and proceed with objectives without supervision.
Qualifications
Education/Experience/Background:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields.
• 1-3 years of data analysis or relevant experience.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Knowledge of programming languages like SQL, Python,and R.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Sisense, Power BI).
• Advanced ability to perform exploratory data analysis.
• Experience with common data science toolkits.
• Ability to communicate complex data in a simple, actionable way.
• Ability to visualize data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with machine learning and AI.
• Familiarity with data management tools.
• Ability to work independently and with team members from different backgrounds.
Additional Information
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Location: Paramus, NJ
Posted: Aug. 12, 2024, 5:18 p.m.
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