Operations Research Data Scientist

Your Job

We are seeking an Operations Research Scientist to join our Artificial Intelligence / Data Science capability backed by billions.

We love enthusiastic, forward-thinking individuals who are driven to innovate.

You will have the opportunity to engage with Data Scientists, Analysts, and internal customers to implement ideas, optimize existing products and processes, and create high performance products using powerful, contemporary cloud services.

This opportunity engages diverse types of business applications and data sets at a rapid pace, and our ideal candidate gets excited when they are faced with a challenge.

Our Team

We have an opportunity on the Artificial Intelligence / Data Science organization at Georgia-Pacific's Collaboration & Support Center, located in Atlanta, GA.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Operations Research Scientist to join a team of Data Scientists to focus on providing support and solutions to our manufacturing operations.

Working closely with business partners and engineers, the Lead Operations Research Scientist supports operations through development and deployment of useful and scalable optimization models that make our facilities safe, efficient, and optimal.

What You Will Do



* Work with product managers and customers to better understand business challenges.


* Think through a business challenge and produce a set of hypotheses.


* Create a list of potentially relevant supporting data elements and conduct exploratory analyses.


* Collaborate with other scientists and analytics professionals.


* Propose and implement modeling approaches.

Focus needs to be on building minimum viable products with vision to improve and mature solutions.


* Mine the data to check completeness, value distributions, etc.


* Evaluate models for quality and scalability.


* Collaborate with product managers to find the best way to present the results.


* Collaborate with developers, data scientists, and data engineers on productionizing models.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Experience developing and deploying advanced optimization models.


* Experience in optimization and decomposition of complex problems for custom solutions.


* Experience with commercial (Gurobi, Cplex, Xpress) or free/open source (GLPK, lp_solve, MIPCL) solvers.


* Experience developing in Python within a collaborative production environment.


* Experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems.


* Experience developing proof of concepts and experimentation and scaling into production within our organization.


* Experience working with stochastic processes and uncertainty modeling.


* Experience formulating and solving Mixed Integer linear, non-Linear, quadratic Programming models.

What Will Put You Ahead



* Experience leveraging cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, or Azure


* Experience with statistics and data mining techniqu...