Global Data Scientist

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Job Title: Global Data Scientist

Job Location: Wickliffe, US or Hazelwood, UK

Type of role: Hybrid

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Global Data Scientist!

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming data management and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:  

As a Global Data Scientist, you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, delivering Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence systems to enable product development, deployment, and manufacturing, along with providing data science and statistics consulting services to the Lubrizol technical community.  You'll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals globally to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Your work will directly data driven decision making across the enterprise with the use of the right data, tools, and processes. Data science support greatly benefits efficiency and decision making in prioritization and complexity reduction. 

What We're Looking For: 

• Create predictive models by mining complex data with advanced methods to dive into intricate chemical data and build operational empirical models that will be used by the business in operations and manufacturing, as well as product development and deployment efforts. 
• Support analytics systems including the development and maintenance of systems, processes, and algorithms: Integrate and enhance our analytics systems and tools which provide insightful information and enable our engineers, formulators, and program managers to make timely, data-driven decisions. 
• Collaborate and consult with data scientists and subject-area experts on statistics and data analytics problems:  As a member of the Data Science & Statistics group, participate in diverse project work in partnership with other departments throughout the company, including manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and businesses across the organization.
• Research and implement new statistical, machine learning and optimization approaches: Contribute to the enhancement of our modeling approaches and analytics systems and tools to enable timely, data-driven decisions. Research areas may include feature selection, modeling approaches, transfer learning, optimization, computer vision, and more. 

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in statistics, operations research, data analytics, data science or closely related field. For PhD candidates, research in the areas of Bayesian modeling, optimization, or computer vision would be a benefit.
• Ability to effectively use advanced algorithms to assess complex data resulting in practical insights 
• Capacity of writing complex code in Python and/or R 
• Knowledge of machine learning or AI algorithms and other deep learning methods 

• Training in Lean and 6-sigma methodologies is a plus 

• Applied experience working in the chemical manufacturing and batch/continuous processing industries is an advantage.

• Strong problem solving and deductive reasoning skills.
• Creativity and curiosity with the ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly.
• Ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of individuals at all levels of the organization.

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Develop your professional career with a highly respected, industry-leading, multinational company that is part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• Become part of a culture that is based on accountability and empowerment and which values diversity and inclusivity.
• A competitive remuneration and benefits package

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.