Hourly Wage: $30.00
PURPOSE: The Energy Data Science Intern will support strategic decision making by increasing data accessibility, performing statistical analysis, building predictive models, and providing actionable insights. This position advances all DPC’s strategic priorities, but most notably our commitment to financial strength, growth & innovation, and our safety culture.
Build, test and document data pipelines that ingest, transform and deliver data for analysis and reporting. Assist with integrating APIs, databases, enterprise applications and external data sources into Dairyland Power Cooperative’s cloud-based Lakehouse environment. Clean, validate and organize energy and business data to improve reliability and accessibility. Perform statistical analysis to identify trends, quantify uncertainty and support business decisions. Develop and evaluate machine learning models for defined business applications. Support model deployment, validation, performance monitoring and ongoing improvement. Translate business questions into quantitative analyses. Present findings, assumptions and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences. Create technical documentation for data sources, pipelines, models and analytical methods. Perform other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience: Currently pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, artificial intelligence, computer science, or another related field.
Licenses and Certifications: Valid Driver's License
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Environmental Demands: Normal work schedule is indoors.
Other Job Characteristics: Travel required, occasionally overnight. Works with limited supervision in a variably paced, variable pressure setting. Handles multiple priorities.
Providing safe, reliable, sustainable and affordable electricity for its cooperative members is the goal of Dairyland Power Cooperative.
Headquartered in La Crosse, Wis., Dairyland employs about 550 people in the region. As a Touchstone Energy Cooperative, Dairyland operates its business under the guidance of the cooperative principles and holds true to four core values: innovation, accountability, integrity and commitment to community.
Dairyland is a generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) which provides the wholesale electrical requirements and other services for 24 electric distribution cooperatives and 17 municipal utilities in the Upper Midwest. In turn, these cooperatives and municipals deliver the electricity to consumers--meeting the energy needs of more than half a million people.
Dairyland’s generating resources include coal, solar, wind, natural gas, hydro and biogas. Dairyland delivers electricity via nearly 3,200 miles of transmission lines and 300 substations located throughout the system’s 44,500 square mile service area that encompasses 62 counties in four states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois).
Please visit www.dairylandpower.com for more information on Dairyland Power Cooperative and its facilities.
