Data Scientist Internship Newcastle 2022

Are you passionate about data science and how data is used in to design and launch products you use every day?  Are you inquisitive about the science & engineering behind these products, and how your data can help?  Do you want to work with world-class brands in the largest Consumer Goods company in the world, while still at university?  Then this opportunity is for you!

Our Newcastle Innovation Centre focuses on developing Products for Fabric Care and Home Care on brands such as Ariel, Fairy and Bold. At NIC we are offering 12 month placement opportunities for Data Scientists BSci graduating or undergraduates seeking a year placement which will start in August or September 2022.  Deadline for applications is 8th July 2022.

What you will bring

The ideal candidate will bring critical skills in capturing & structuring data including the development of data models to link and activate our data across functions (Formulation, R&D and Manufacturing data). This work will involve:

• Pushing and pulling data from databases via custom built applications
• Building queries to link and pull data from multiple sources for use in analytics and statistical modelling
• Developing custom reporting tools or dashboards for use by the organisation
• Becoming an expert in the current P&G IT / data architecture and tools available to efficiently integrate any newly developed tools

What you will learn

Working with R&D scientists and engineers you will quickly learn about the critical parameters for making high quality products, and the impact these parameters have on products attributes. You will learn the importance of R&D data to a large organisation and how critical it is to develop the right digital tools and data models to leverage data in the most effective way. As you build this knowledge, together with capturing and structuring of the data, you will learn how to build predictive models and leverage self-learning algorithms to continually improve these models

This Internship is a period of mutual trial and an ideal way for you to gain industrial experience. It is also an opportunity for you to look at P&G as a potential future employer and for P&G to see your capabilities.  Following a successful internship we hope to be able to recruit directly into a graduate Associate Researcher position

During the Internship individuals will

• Work on their own project(s), but as part of an overall project team
• Have an opportunity to put their technical skills to work on intellectually challenging problems
• Improve their team working and leadership skills through practical experience and interactive training courses
• Learn to work effectively with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds
• Experience the working environment in a leading international company and
• Gain guidance on their professional development

What we offer you

• Responsibility from Day 1 – you will feel the ownership of your project from the beginning, and you will be given specific projects and responsibilities to lead, like a true P&Ger
• Continuous coaching – you will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager
• Dynamic and respectful work environment – employees are at the core, we value every individual and encourage initiatives, promoting agility and work/life balance
• Compensation & Benefits: this is a paid opportunity you will receive a competitive intern salary whilst you are with us as well as other benefits

What we are looking for

We enroll students from North East based Colleges and Universities from scientific and engineering disciplines into the various roles in R&D.  We also look for skills such as creativity, innovation, initiative, communication, leadership and the ability to work with others.

• BSci or equivalent in Data Science / Computing Science
• Programming Skills – knowledge of database query languages (SQL is preferable) and statistical programming languages like R and Python
• Some experience in VB.Net, C+ and VBA would be a bonus
• Databases – Some experience with and understanding of different types of database (E.g. Relational Database, Historian)
• Statistics – Good applied statistical skills, knowledge of statistical tests, distributions, regression techniques
• Other – Experience with Office 365 and data analytics / reporting tools such as PowerBI and Tableau would be beneficial

Good to know

We’re consistently recognised as one of the UK’s leading graduate employers listed in Times Top 100 Graduate Employers; The Best Places to Work – Glassdoor; Guardian UK 300; Job Crowd – Best Places for Graduates to Work and Universum’s Most Attractive Employers

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Our people are all equally talented in unique ways: we come from diverse traditions, personal experiences and points of view. And we want to include yours. Are you ready to inspire us with your unrivalled ideas?

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