Job Description:
Location: 9045 River Road, Indianapolis, IN 46240
Company Overview
Performing over 80 million locates annually, USIC is the most trusted name in underground utility damage prevention. USIC also provides a full suite of utility services throughout North America. Our Mission: to deliver quality, efficient, safe, and innovative solutions to protect our partners’ infrastructure and critical assets. Our Culture is known as Living the SAFE-LIFE: Protecting Infrastructure, Protecting Our Communities, Protecting Ourselves.
Summary
The Data Scientist will apply statistical theory and methods to collect and analyze data, make predictions, and recommend actions.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for executing statistical methods to solve specific business needs
- Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
- Responsible for developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters to improve upon existing methodologies
- Ensure that models are well developed, tested, trained, and implemented
- Ensure that the integrity and dependability of data for analytical purposes are processed, cleansed, and verified
- Responsible for data extraction, to include the construction and optimization of classifiers utilizing machine-learning methods
- Responsible for the accurate exploration of internally and externally sourced data to search for unseen insights and correlation
- Strongly encourages the adoption of data science and analytics across the organization
Requirements
- Master’s degree in data science or a related field is required
- 3-5 years of relevant experience required
- Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms and latest statistical, visualization, and extraction methods
- Thorough understanding of quantitative modeling and statistical analyses as well as experience building complex data visualizations for business stakeholders using a variety of visualization tools
- Proven track record of successfully working with difficult statistical/predictive models, performing analysis on complex problems, translating the needs of the business, and developing or enhancing solutions
- Experience developing standards and design patterns for development including implementing cloud-based analytics platforms
- Ability to work collaboratively cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders alike
- Excellent interpersonal skills that include the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and express technical matters in cogent layman’s terms
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Experience with statistical software (Python, R, SAS)
- Expert in MS Office Suite
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans are encouraged to apply.