Data Science Intern - Environment
GHD

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Job Description

Organizations don't innovate, people do!

Who are we looking for?

Working with the GHD Digital Team across North America, the Data Scientist Intern - Environment is responsible for providing the delivery of expert Data and Analytics solutions and credibility to our Advanced Analytics team and clients.

This is a hybrid role and can be based out of any of our US locations! The duration of the internship will be throughout the Fall semester (September- December)

As part of our digital transformation business, you'll help clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good.

And we'll help you stimulate new thinking, accelerate your career and connect you to projects that really matter.

Join our team of over 600 data scientists, design problem solvers, immersive digital consultants, project managers and innovators, all working to build positive change for generations to come.

Bring your curiosity and passion to the technical challenges we take on at GHD. Then see how everyone gets behind you.

With dedication, there's no idea too big, no dream too far. We strive to build opportunity for all. Giving you leading training and development programs to accelerate your growth.

Come and see where your career can take you and the impact your dedication can make.

Let's tackle the big problems together.

Responsibilities:

• Build solutions through the use of advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and data visualization techniques ensuring tasks are completed on time
• Designs, implements, and evaluates sophisticated statistical models and approaches for application in the business's most complex issues
• Performs ad-hoc data mining and exploratory statistics tasks on very large data-sets related to the business's strategies
• Prepares reports and presentations that will give insights into ongoing/completed work
• Cleansing of large unstructured data and enabling analytical capability in order to query the data and address various business needs
• Uses unstructured and disjointed datasets for the purpose of independently generating useful business insights as well as crafting manageable analytical processes
• Collaborates with senior data scientists to communicate obstacles and findings to relevant partners in an effort to improve decision-making and drive business performance
• Comes up with superb illustrations and visualizations of data communicating results as measures of the business's impact
• Teammate, collaborating with others in the data analytics team and sharing information and knowledge, in solving sophisticated business issues
• Seeking advice from others when learning
• Coordinating and supervising specific team tasks when requested
• Documents completed work so that anyone will be able to understand and implement it
• Will work in environment domain with a focus on contamination, assessment and remediation
• Ability to mine data from EPA, state government's environment regulation websites etc
• Assists in performing tasks using ESRI tools like ArcGIS Pro, WebApp Builder
• Assists in building libraries which are passionate about performing analysis relevant to environment

Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in a graduate program (preferably in Chemical/Environmental Engineering) and eligible to work full-time (40 hours/week)
• Solid understanding of remediation techniques, chemical engineering calculations, PFAs compounds
• Able to think and function independently with minimal supervision
• Strong programming skills and experience working with tools such as Excel, R, Python, ArcGIS, SQL Server Management Studio, Azure MLS, Azure DevOps, Git
• Must have completed either academic coursework or MOOCs related to programming
• Academic/professional experience in but not limited to libraries such as Pandas, NLTK, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Numpy/Scipy, Sklearn/H2O, TensorFlow/PyTorch and/or Keras
• Good understanding of Dataframe Manipulation, Web Scraping, Natural Language Processing Machine Learning, Deep Learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms with a specialization in at least one of the listed concepts
• Basic knowledge of Big Data techniques and Cloud Computing
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and accurate usage, etc.) and experience with applications
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Confident but friendly and approachable

Tackle some of the world's toughest challenges - with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.

We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you build a lasting impact.

See where your dedication could take you with GHD.

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

About Us

Take on some of the world's toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way.
We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment could take you with GHD.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.
That's the #PowerOfCommitment

Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.

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