Data Science Intern - Waterloo, Canada - GHD

GHD

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Waterloo, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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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 - Water is responsible for providing the delivery of expert Data and Analytics solutions and credibility to our Advanced Analytics team and clients.

The role can be based at one of our
Southern Ontario offices:
Whitby
, Mississauga, Markham, Waterloo and Toronto **. 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 tackle at GHD. Then see how everyone gets behind you.
With commitment, there's no idea too big, no dream too far. We strive to create opportunity for all. Giving you leading training and development programmes to accelerate your growth.

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

**Let's solve the big problems together.

Responsibilities:

Create solutions through the use of sophisticated statistical analysis, data mining, and data visualization techniques ensuring tasks are completed on time
Researches open source data relevant to business as well as investigating data summarization and visualization techniques for conveying key applied analytics findings
Performs adhoc data mining and exploratory statistics tasks on very large datasets 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 concrete 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 decisionmaking 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 complex business issues
Seeking advice from others when learning
Coordinating and monitoring 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 water on problems like water leak detection modeling and prediction in real time, analyzing sensor data of pump stations in water plants
Assists in performing tasks using ESRI tools like ArcGIS Pro Assists in building libraries which are passionate about performing analysis relevant to water sector

Qualifications:

Must be enrolled in a graduate program (preferably in Environmental Engineering) and eligible to work fulltime (40 hours/week)
Able to think and function independently with mínimal direction
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, OpenCV, TensorFlow/PyTorch and/or Keras
Good understanding of Dataframe Manipulation, Web Scraping, Real Time Analytics, 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
Strong organizational and communication skills
Confident but friendly and approachable

Take on 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 create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment 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.

Why GHD?
Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem