Caterpillar Inc.

Lead Data Scientist

Caterpillar Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: PeoriaIllinoisTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $128,470 - $208,770 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Responsible for answering questions regarding the Dealer Parts Orders (DPO) product-based allocation.
  • Own the Parts LTF process: system architecture design, analytics solution development, and user training.
  • Own the design, development and maintenance of PowerBI dashboards to deliver the forecast analytics solutions.
  • Responsible for the integrity of the disaggregation of the S&OP forecast.
  • Own the foundational research in leveraging Gen AI LLM models for explainable forecast initiative.
  • Lead design and implementation of LLM-powered analytics insight generation to explain forecast miss.
  • Own the statistical modelling for calculating forecast confidence intervals for aftermarket parts.
  • Responsible for the integrity of the annual business plan disaggregation for DPO.
  • Regularly and accurately maintain and update DPO systems and answer all related queries for their assigned allocations.
  • Responsible for setting priorities and preparing work plan to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
  • Responsible for Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.
  • Responsible for Impact key quality goals including Customer Satisfaction, Continuous Improvement, Timeliness, Accuracy, Efficiency, Cost Savings, Process Quality, etc.

Requirements

  • Doctoral or Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Accounting, Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a closely related field with extensive coursework in mathematical and statistical modeling.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical models and methods to solve wide range of industry problems.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in applying statistical tools and techniques for time series analysis and modelling; demonstrating deep understanding of fundamental concepts of time series analysis: stationarity; seasonality; time series decomposition.
  • 5+ years of extensive experience in developing end-to-end analytics solutions that span from data pipeline to insights delivery.
  • Deep expertise and experience in applying classical statistical modelling methods, tools and techniques for time series forecasting included in the GLM, ARIMA and State Space family of models.
  • Deep expertise and experience in contemporary deep learning tools and techniques for time series forecasting included in Transformer family of models with self-attention mechanism.
  • Deep understanding of models and methods for Hierarchical time series and forecast reconciliation.
  • Extensive experience and proficiency in R, Python and SQL / Snowflake queries
  • Experience with AWS Cloud platform and AWS Glue
  • Experience with Alteryx and SAS
  • Extensive experience with PowerBI for development of reporting dashboards
  • Experience with Rshiny / Dash / Streamlit for development of interactive web application for forecast analytics.
  • High level of interpersonal skills and excellent communication and storytelling skills
  • Experience in Value Stream Mapping for Business Process analysis and improvement.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
  • 401(k) savings plans*
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
  • Health Lifestyle Programs*
  • Employee Assistance Program*
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
  • Career Development*
  • Incentive bonus*
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
statistical modelingtime series analysisdata pipeline developmentforecast reconciliationGLMARIMAState Space modelsTransformer modelsRPython
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsstorytelling skillsleadershiporganizational skills