Data Science Phd Jobs in Rhode Island (NOW HIRING)

Gilbane is looking to add a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to our Information Technology Team.

Who are we?  

As a Top-10 ENR Contractor, Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more! 

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Who are you? 

You are a coach/leader who leads with an inclusive and empathetic mindset. You provide feedback and guidance to help others excel in their current or future roles. You determine priorities, delegate work, and effectively communicate progress. You establish measures to assess the impact, quality, and timeliness of results while praising successes and sharing lessons learned. You build high performing teams by attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining talented individuals through motivation and discipline to maximize impact on the organization and the individual.  

You leverage business insights by understanding industry trends, local market/economic conditions, and Gilbane's business model to make critical decisions and create competitive advantage. You deploy a strategic mindset when considering solutions to long-term opportunities and risks that may develop in the future.  

Your core values match Gilbane's: Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Toughmindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship. 

What's in it for you?  

Gilbane offers employees multi-dimensional training opportunities through a number of resources. While managing your responsibilities to the project, you will be able to enroll in trainings through our award-winning Gilbane University to build leadership and technical skills. In addition, you will with experienced Sr. Project Managers and Project Executives on each job site which provides you with opportunity to learn new industry skills every day. You will protect and promote the interests of both Gilbane and the client in all matters as well as demonstrating the personal characteristic of a developing leader.

• Use your deep scientific research methods, statistics, machine learning, causal inference, and AI skills to study our business and deploy analytical solutions that optimize business outcomes.
• You are a scientist that is a master at working with data. You'll develop close stakeholder relationships, solve business problems, and educate stakeholders on analytics, AI / ML processes and capabilities.
• Leverage the model development process to identify critical drivers of predicted outcomes (variable importance) and guide business to take action on these insights. Partnering with business SMEs in the process to enrich model insights, improve model performance, and ensure user adoption.
• Mine various data systems, clean and structure data, develop data pipelines, and identify areas for data quality improvements in the enterprise data environment.
• Partner with Data Engineering and BI teams to put models and insights into production.
• Develop causal inference / explanatory path models to help business understand drivers of key outcomes.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure understanding of models and implement business process changes to improve outcomes based on model output.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• PhD desired
• Master's at least required in statistics, data science, economics, psychology (research / experimental) or other heavy quant focused social or other science (biometrics).
• Need deep knowledge of statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, data mining, feature engineering, causal inference, scientific research methods.
• Requires strong skills in SQL and Python or R.
• Excellent communicator / consultative approach, PowerPoint and presentation skills required.

This position can be performed remotely or from any U.S. location where Gilbane has an office. Salary to be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience of the applicant, as well as the internal equity and alignment with the team.

This position can be performed remotely or from any U.S. location where Gilbane has an office. Salary to be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience of the applicant, as well as the internal equity and alignment with the team.

The pay ranges from $141,000 - 220,000 plus benefits and retirement program.

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees' education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Click here to view the physical demands and working conditions required to perform this role. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Note to Recruiters, Placement Agencies, and Similar Organizations: Gilbane does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our jobs alias, website, or to any Gilbane employee. Gilbane will not pay fees to any third party agency or firm and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Gilbane and will be processed accordingly.