Sr. Data Scientist

Sr. Data Scientist

Founded in 1886, Buckeye Partners, L.P. has a proven track record of stability and success. We pride ourselves on the laser focus we apply to safely providing service and value to our customers, operating under a strong set of values, and empowering our employees to make decisions. We have a tenacious commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance in all that we do.

It is our internal culture that sets us apart from other companies. Our goal is to provide our employees with a greater span of responsibility, the ability to make decisions, and access to experts to help you build your skills and experiences. Each of our career tracks provides employees with the ability to innovate, and be a significant contributor from their first day on the job.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Sr. Data Scientist with of quantitative and data analytics experience in the Oil & Gas Industry to join our team!

Role Summary:

This role will support and drive growth within the Decision Intelligence team, which is focused on using quantitative models to support business decisions. This is an exciting role to participate in a newly developed department and to shape how advanced analytics is used to support operational excellence.

Responsibilities & Essential Functions include:

• Build, test, and deploy ML (machine learning), DP (deep learning), AI (artificial intelligence), and NLP (natural language processing) applications to produce value from data assets
• Use foundational data science methodologies to identify relationships/drivers of key metrics to improve asset performance, financial predictions, asset clustering, and failure analysis
• Develop statistical models, machine-learning based tools or processes to measure and manage business performance, validate that the models are working effectively and create/maintain proper model documentation
• Predict future trends from the current platforms, as well as assist with strategy recommendations for future environments
• Partner with various lines of business to identify opportunities to apply quantitative methods, automation solutions and analytical frameworks to improve business performance and process efficiencies
• Monitor and assess the post-implementation impact of risk management strategies
• Articulate and provide advanced of quantitative model and predictive behavior to non-analytical team members
• Utilize various data sources to explore, analyze, and cleanse data prior to modeling

Position Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, financial modeling, statistical modeling or econometric modeling is required.
• 5+ years' experience in oil & gas industry, specifically in midstream is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with various databases, data historians, and data query tools, such as OSISoft, ESRI, MSSQL, Oracle, MYSQL, etc. is required
• Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, , Engineering, Finance, Physics, or related discipline is preferred
• Experience with Python, R or other machine learning and/or statistical software is preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills with ability to clearly convey modeling results to a wide range of audiences
• Excellent analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and manage multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment

* Travel Requirements: 25%

Certificates & Licenses:

* None required

Essential Functions:

* This position requires the ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or/quantitative productivity standards.

* This role requires the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

* This position requires compliance with all personnel policies.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You must be able to work independently. You must also be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal clients and external counterparties (customers, vendors, etc.), as well as when handling sensitive and confidential information.

Buckeye Partners wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of our employees and results in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

About Us:

Buckeye Partners, L.P. is the logistical solutions partner of choice for the global energy business and one of the nation's largest independent petroleum products pipeline transportation and terminalling service provider; our strength is to create centers of expertise around our products, technologies and client needs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. We are also an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP on the following website: