Data Science Intern - Environment

Organizations don't innovate, people do

Who are we looking for?

Working with the GHD Digital Team across North America, the Data Scientist Intern - Environment is responsible for providing the delivery of expert Data and Analytics solutions and credibility to our Advanced Analytics team and clients. The role can be based at one of our Southern Ontario offices: Whitby, Mississauga, Markham, Waterloo and Toronto. The duration of the internship will be throughout the Fall semester (September– December

As part of our digital transformation business, you’ll help clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good.

And we’ll help you stimulate new thinking, accelerate your career and connect you to projects that really matter.

Join our team of over 600 data scientists, design problem solvers, immersive digital consultants, project managers and innovators, all working to build positive change for generations to come.

Bring your curiosity and passion to the technical challenges we tackle at GHD. Then see how everyone gets behind you.

With commitment, there’s no idea too big, no dream too far. We strive to create opportunity for all. Giving you leading training and development programmes to accelerate your growth.

Come and see where your career can take you and the impact your commitment can make.

Let's solve the big problems together.

Responsibilities:

• Documents completed work so that anyone will be able to understand and implement it
• Assists in building libraries which are passionate about performing analysis relevant to environment
• Prepares reports and presentations that will give insights into ongoing/completed work
• Cleansing of large unstructured data and enabling analytical capability in order to query the data and address various business needs
• Build solutions through the use of advanced statistical analysis, data mining, and data visualization techniques ensuring tasks are completed on time
• Ability to mine data from EPA, state government’s environment regulation websites etc
• Comes up with superb illustrations and visualizations of data communicating results as measures of the business’s impact
• Assists in performing tasks using ESRI tools like ArcGIS Pro, WebApp Builder
• Coordinating and monitoring specific team tasks when requested
• Performs ad-hoc data mining and exploratory statistics tasks on very large data-sets related to the business’s strategies
• Seeking advice from others when learning
• Will work in environment domain with a focus on contamination, assessment and remediation
• Collaborates with senior data scientists to communicate obstacles and findings to relevant partners in an effort to improve decision-making and drive business performance
• Uses unstructured and disjointed datasets for the purpose of independently generating useful business insights as well as crafting manageable analytical processes
• Designs, implements, and evaluates sophisticated statistical models and approaches for application in the business’s most complex issues
• Teammate, collaborating with others in the data analytics team and sharing information and knowledge, in solving sophisticated business issues

Qualifications:

• Confident but friendly and approachable
• Academic/professional experience in but not limited to libraries such as Pandas, NLTK, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Numpy/Scipy, Sklearn/H2O, TensorFlow/PyTorch and/or Keras
• Able to think and function independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Must have completed either academic coursework or MOOCs related to programming
• Good understanding of Dataframe Manipulation, Web Scraping, Natural Language Processing Machine Learning, Deep Learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms with a specialization in at least one of the listed concepts
• Must be enrolled in a graduate program (preferably in Chemical/Environmental Engineering) and eligible to work full-time (40 hours/week)
• Strong programming skills and experience working with tools such as Excel, R, Python, ArcGIS, SQL Server Management Studio, Azure MLS, Azure DevOps, Git
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications
• Basic knowledge of Big Data techniques and Cloud Computing
• Strong knowledge of remediation techniques, chemical engineering calculations, PFAs compounds

Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.

We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment could take you with GHD.

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

About Us

Why GHD?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

More about Life and Work @GHD

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Our Commitment to you

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation . GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

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GHD Digital

At GHD Digital, our people-centric and innovative approach combines industry insights with digital mindsets to maximise opportunities for growth and success. Our complete offering builds business value - from location intelligence and data management, to applied innovation, advanced visualisation, and predictive and artificial intelligence.