Data Scientist

About the Position:

Do you have a passion for turning data into valuable insights? If so, consider joining General Dynamics as a Data Scientist. We are looking for an analytics practitioner with strong critical thinking skills who embraces data wrangling.

As a Data Scientist on the Engineering Operations & Continuous Improvement team, you will be engaged in the data supporting our business intelligence system. This means you will be asked to:

• Investigate the context and business practices behind data
• Manipulate the raw data into a usable form
• Analyze and interpret the data using statistical tools and methodologies
• Develop data models for new and existing dashboards
• Design new visualizations and dashboards to support organizational decision making
• Extract meaningful insights from multiple data sources
• Utilize data analysis to support continuous improvements and identify processing efficiencies
• Guide organization in future-focused data process and tool goals and decisions

Company Information

General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees worldwide. General Dynamics Land Systems has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles.

What We Offer

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending
• Competitive base pay and incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance
• 401k Match (6%)
• Educational Assistance
• 9-80 Work Schedule
• On-going learning opportunities within a diverse and inclusive work environment
• Onsite cafeteria, fitness center, and outdoor fitness track

Responsibilities to Anticipate/Expect:

• Understand the engineering development processes and associated data to enable smarter business processes through analytics
• Collaborate with project teams, process owners & stakeholders to identify business intelligence requirements
• Propose and deploy analytic strategies
• Communicate data driven findings to stakeholders
• Develop business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytic solutions
• Analyze and identify patterns leading to valuable insights
• Develop data structures for efficient data retrieval and analysis
• Model front-end and back-end data sources
• Utilize structured thinking in ambiguous problem spaces
• Develop models to support forecasting and predictive analysis
• Conduct root cause analysis utilizing supporting data

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• 5 - 7 years of experience in large scale engineering and manufacturing industry
• Background in data structure, manipulation and reporting
• Must be able to obtain/maintain DOD Secret security clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Build data pipelines from disparate sources
• Statistical analysis tools and programming languages such as Python, R, SQL
• Data visualization software (preferably Power BI)
• Understanding of process improvement methods, tools and techniques
• Familiarity with Teamcenter and/or TCRA a plus

Additional Information:

• Able to work overtime when required
• Limited travel may be required
• Ability to report on-site as the primary work location