Data Science Specialist

Location Warwickshire
Job type: Contract
Salary: £29.86p/h Inside IR35 Via UMBRELLA
Contact name: Vicki Martinson

Contact email: vmartinson@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 36855325
Published: 26 days ago
Duration: 12 months (rolling)
Expiry date: 01 Jun 2026 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

​POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

  • Engage with stakeholders and management to identify opportunities, improvements and gaps in current reporting.

  • Identify, clean and transform operational data to create actionable insights and dashboards.

  • Automate data extraction and transformation processes.

  • Identify, develop and maintain Power App solutions for gaps in current data capture.

  • Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time.

Key Interactions

  • Manufacturing Engineering Platform Teams

  • Manufacturing Engineering Management

  • Company Digital / data teams

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

Hard Skills

  • Proven experience of developing dashboards and reporting capabilities with Tableau.

  • Ability to visually display data in a meaningful way that helps the end user understand business performance and take appropriate actions.

  • Understanding of data modelling and relational database structures.

  • Experience using SQL to extract and transform data.

  • Experience automating data extraction and transformation processes.

  • Experience developing and maintaining Power Apps and Power Automate solutions.

  • Possess a valid driving licence, required to travel to different UK sites when required.

Soft Skills:

  • Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work; fully invested in achieving a successful result.

  • You view things as a team rather than individual project level, considering the wider team needs.

  • Strong interpersonal/communication skills, including ability to manage relationships and communicate effectively at all levels.

  • Good influencing skills.

  • Good problem solving skills.

Desirable

Hard Skills:

  • Experience using the Enterprise Data Warehouse to extract, transform and load data.

  • Experience with Python

Soft Skills:

  • Relevant Data apprenticeship / Degree or equivalent experience preferred.