Data Scientist

Summit School Services companies share a strong commitment to provide the highest level of transportation safety, quality transportation, outstanding customer service and positive employee relations. Our corporate headquarters, located in Warrenville, Illinois, houses the administrative and corporate support functions for the organization. Our 250+ local customer service centers (CSCs) are supported by regional operations teams located throughout North America.

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Data Scientist to join our analytics team. The ideal candidate will leverage advanced data analysis, business knowledge and machine learning / AI techniques to extract actionable insights from complex datasets. This role offers an opportunity to work with a variety of applications, data sources, and cloud-based vendor solutions. The Data Scientist collaborates with operations and business teams to create predictive models, dashboards, and reports for staffing, KPIs, and contract renewals.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Design and optimize ETL processes for data ingestion, transformation, and storage
• Conduct data mining and exploratory data analysis to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies within large datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into analytical solutions.
• Architect, build and maintain databases with effective design principles to ensure data integrity and accessibility.
• Deploy machine learning models into production environments using model deployment best practices on cloud platforms.
• Analyze operational and performance data from school bus fleets and contracts
• Build predictive and statistical models to improve various points of the business such as contract renewal, staffing needs, operational KPIs.
• Stay current with emerging trends in AI and analytics to continuously improve modeling approaches.

$125,000 - $165,000

Qualifications

Requirements

Summit School Services has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with its policies and values, including sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. Summit School Services is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children and passengers.

We offer medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance coverage, holiday pay, and PTO accrual. Additionally, employees are able to enroll in a retirement savings plan.

At Summit School Services our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Summit School Services LLC's independent subsidiaries and affiliates are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer .

The pay rate range, along with most all of the other terms and conditions of employment, vary between different sites, geographical markets, customer / contractual terms and positions.