Sr. Data Scientist
Career Area:
Information Analytics
Job Description:
JOB PURPOSE:
Caterpillar uses quantitative methods such as business simulations, data mining, modeling and advanced statistical techniques to solve problems. The Senior Information Scientist contributes to this mission by acting as the technical lead of analytics project teams tasked with solving problems of low to medium complexity or business impact.
JOB DUTIES:
Job Responsibilities: Provides analytics assistance to complex issues and projects in the Marketing portfolio; Demonstrate thorough statistical knowledge and comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar Inc. and
its products/services; Provide solutions to customers; Analyze supply chain; Reduce large data sets into valuable information while assisting various subject matter experts with updated supply chain analysis, recommendations and contingency plans; Monitor potential line down issues due to situational events or business decisions; Perform statistical data analysis using SAS to perform supplier metrics evaluation; Analyze various key performance indicators such as shipping and delivery performance, PPM hits and capacity capabilities.
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:
Basic Requirements;
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5 years of progressive experience with predictive analysis, data mining, and regression modeling using the statistical programming tools SAS, R, Minitab, SPSS Modeler, SAS Enterprise Miner, Matlab, and Python. and visualization using Tableau, BOBJ, and IBM Web Portal.
Alternatively will accept;
- Masters Degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or related and 2 years of progressive experience as noted above or a suitable combination of education and experience.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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