Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM from an accredited institution is requiredMust have experience in basic SQL querying skillsDemonstrated ability to transform data with a programming languageStrong working knowledge of Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio)​Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Preferred Qualifications

2 or more years of professional data science experience is preferredPrevious manufacturing / industrial plant experience is highly desiredA strong interest in working in a manufacturing environmentAbility to work in a self-directed and cross-functional team environmentAn unquenchable desire to continuously learnExperience in applying advanced data and statistical analysis methods to industrial manufacturing dataVisualization tools: Power BI, TableauExperience with engineering data tools such as: SQL, SAS, Minitab, JMP, MS Excel, Six SigmaIn depth knowledge of advanced analytics techniques.Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work in a self-directed AND cross-functional team environment.Strong organizational and analytical skills

As an Analyst Engineer at the Howmet Research Center, you will join a team of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. This team is part of a multidisciplinary R&D group responsible for advancing the state-of-the-art in aerospace manufacturing at our casting, alloy, core and rings manufacturing facilities. You are a great fit for this team if you have the innate curiosity necessary to learn new processes, meet new people, and are persistently detail-oriented with a quality mindset. If you enjoy matching complex physical processes to corresponding data across multiple data sources, and transforming data into reliable, documented datasets for use in machine learning, reporting, and visualization tools, we would love to talk with you!

Primary Responsibilities

Initiate working with manufacturing plant personnel to understand the detailed manufacturing process and data collection user interfacesInitiate working with corporate and local IT to understand the data storage and sources that correlate to the plant process, and the most efficient way to query themQuery multiple data sources and join the data together to accurately represent the processExplore the data to identify edge cases, data cleaning requirements, and bias – using statistics as necessaryDown-select, augment, and clean the datasetIterate the above steps to generate a representative and reliable dataset, checking your own work and being able to explain it to others at multiple levels of the organizationCollaborate with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to understand model input requirementsTransform the data to meet machine learning model input requirementsProvide post-modeling functions to translate model results to process-relatable valuesActively participate in leveling up proof-of-concept code to productionized scriptsDocument projects in Power Point and reusable code, storing work in a revision-controlled system