[Job-offers-cs] Data Scientist (Operational Research) positions in Nottingham, UK

[Pekka Orponen]

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Subject: [DMANET] Data Scientist (Operational Research) positions in 
Nottingham, UK
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:25:33 +0100
From: M Mesgarpour <m.mesgarpour at gmail.com>
To: dmanet at zpr.uni-koeln.de

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Data Scientist (Operational Research) position in Nottingham, UK
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Microlise is one of Europe's largest telematics and transport management 
solutions providers with the HQ in Nottingham, Our mission is to empower 
our customers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, DHL, ASDA, Waitrose, Co-op, 
Eddie Stobart, Royal mail, MAN, DAF, TATA to reduce their costs and 
environmental impact by maximising the efficiency of their 
transportation operations. We achieve this with our great employees who 
continue to develop and deploy innovative, industry-leading technology 
solutions and services that enable our customers to optimise fleet 
utilisation and driver performance, to reduce costs and to improve 
service delivery.

The Data Science and Research team which consists of four PhD-level Data 
Scientists, a Junior Data Scientist and a senior Research Programmer 
collaborate with a number of universities on various R&D projects and 
MSc/PhD research studies as well as work on a great variety of 
collaborative R&D projects with partners and customers globally in the 
area of Operational Research, Predictive modelling, Analytics, and 
Artificial Intelligence.

As part of the on-going expansion of our Data Science and Research team, 
Microlise, a leading Transport Management Solutions Provider, are 
looking to appoint a Data Scientist - Operational Research.  (Permanent, 
Nottingham, £30,000 - £50,000).

You can find more details and apply online at:
https://www.microlise.com/careers/job/84656/

The successful applicant will be responsible for:

- Applying operational research, combinatorial optimisation, 
computational/artificial intelligence and big data analytics techniques
- Designing and implementing Local Search, Heuristics and 
Meta-Heuristics algorithms
- Performing exploratory, experimental, analytical and visualisation works
- Complete the analysis, design and build of data models, propensity 
models, analytical models and business and personal insights
- Preparing technical and scientific reports, presentations and patent 
applications
- Framing business problems into questions that can be answered through 
data analysis, and translating business needs into requirements that can 
  be understood by technical teams.

Essential
- PhD degree (or close to completion) in Operational Research, Computer 
Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related discipline.
- 1+ year of experience in operational research, combinatorial 
optimisation or computational intelligence
- Good knowledge of operational research, combinational optimisation, 
heuristics/meta-heuristics and mathematical modelling
- Experience of designing and developing optimisation, local search 
heuristics and meta-heuristics algorithms
- Proven knowledge of at least one object-oriented programming language
- Strong reporting and communication skills whilst working on a number 
of tasks on a variety of different projects at the same time.
- Demonstrates good knowledge of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Ability to change direction quickly based on data analysis
- Enjoying discovering and solving problems
- Build collaborative partnerships with data scientists, data 
architects, technical leads, product managers and key individuals within 
other functional organizations.
- Being able to work independently
- Be adaptable and flexible to respond to the changing needs of a 
dynamic business
- Embrace challenge and be passionate about solving hard problems
- Collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary teams

Desirable:
- 2+ years of experience in operational research, combinatorial 
optimisation, computational intelligence, research computing or data science
- Experience in working on vehicle routing and scheduling algorithms 
Proven knowledge in C#
- knowledge of analytical tools such as R
- knowledge of data visualisation tools such as Tableau and Power BI
- Knowledge of vehicle telematics systems and transport logistics

The application deadline is September 15th, 2019.

This role is eligible for a Certificate of Sponsorship for a UK Visa and 
meets the resident labour market test.

Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to
mohammad.mesgarpour at microlise.com

Dr Mohammad Mesgarpour
Head of Data Science and Research, Microlise
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