Data Scientist
Join the diverse and dynamic team that powers Michigan's largest energy provider and one of the nation's largest gas and electric combination utilities. Consumers Energy services 6.7 million of Michigan's 10 million residents - caring for our friends and neighbors in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. We embrace a cleaner and leaner utility vision focused on eliminating energy waste and adding renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar.
At Consumers Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose:
world class performance delivering hometown service.
Summary
The Data Scientist will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of operations data, and help us make smarter decisions to increase efficiency in our Operations organization. The primary focus of the role will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems. This role will lead data discovery and data innovation and help build industry leading advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to drive business value at scale.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Create sophisticated mathematical models to help predict outcomes
- Identify new data sources and evaluate emerging technologies and analytic trends for data discovery and visualization
- Drive Consumers Energy s overall advanced analytics and AI vision and operational excellence roadmap
- Clearly communicate analytics solutions and insights to stakeholders and translators to ensure they can create value from those insights
Requirements/ Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in field of Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Operations Research OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5
years of practical business experience will help ensure the candidate has the proper foundation for success. - Must be willing to serve in a storm role. This includes an on-call schedule, the ability to work up to 16 hour shifts including nights, weekends and holidays sometimes with limited notice.
Hours and Travel
- This position requires the individual work 40 hours per week with 90% of time spent in the office/remote and up to 10% travel within our service territory (e.g., service centers, specific field locations) for outdoor field observation. Work locations may vary based on storm impact (Home, Jackson, Grand Rapids, Saginaw).
- Working outside of normal work hours during storm or emergency restoration during anytime of the day, including evenings, weekends, holidays and overtime is required.
- Able to work up to 16 hours in a 24-hour period.
Must possess a valid driver s license. Maintain regular, predictable and punctual attendance during regularly scheduled work hours at assigned worksite. Meet travel requirements of the position. Work a flexible schedule, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays and overtime.
This position will be remote/virtual until it s deemed safe to return to the office. At that time, the selected candidate may choose to remain virtual or sit in an office/service center across the state of Michigan.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
- The employee must frequently lift and move up to ten pounds and occasionally lift and move up to fifty pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- The noise level in the field is often loud.
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