You will be involved in and take responsibility for digital engineering projects, building data analysis, data models, ‘Extract, Transform, and Load’ (ETL) processes and machine learning models, based on best practices developed by the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and using a variety of tools.

You will participate in sharing projects globally across the Knauf Insulation organization, with the occasional opportunity to work on projects across the Knauf group.

For this role, domestic and international travel to support and implement projects (around 30% of the working time) is required.

Responsibilities

• Plans Digital and Data Engineering, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science projects. Coordinates project cooperation with internal partners and the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
• Run trials, demos, training and implementation tasks of Data Engineering, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science projects on plant systems.
• Develop algorithms, predictive models, and dashboards that leverage data from data systems, in order to solve complex manufacturing and business problems to operationalize outcomes of analytics.
• Collaborate with the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and develops proof-of-concept for proposed solutions.
• Collaborates with other Digital Engineers in rolling-out successful solutions to plants.
• Constantly improves their knowledge of the business and advanced analytics field in general.
• Communicate with all stakeholders of the projects (including clients) and provide relevant training.
• Create detailed documentation of the programming effort and participate in project reviews with various management teams.
• While performing their duties, they adhere to all performance policies relating to the requirements concerning occupational health and safety, fire safety and environment protection, quality, energy management and consistent use of personal protection equipment.
• Provision of training on PI System to users in the plants.
• Creating analysis and reports from the plant information system (OSI PI and SQL DB).
• Supporting the plants in case of operational problems with the PI system.
• Support Plant OSI PI champions with dynamic interactive reporting.
• Coordinate activities with the IT department, and the interaction with the SAP/MES systems.
• Can think out of the box with regard to new solutions and new technologies that can potentially benefit the business (savings, efficiencies, waste reduction, energy consumption reduction, etc.)

Requirements

• Experience in computer programming and in Data analytics/Data science (any environment)
• Open to junior profiles.
• Ideally, the right candidate will have AI, ML experience (any environment)
• Fluent in Python (complete with various libraries, such as Pandas, Numpy, Keras and TensorFlow).
• Intermediate experience of statistics, knowledge of SQL, Conda package manager and Conda environments, basic bash scripting capabilities.
• Understanding of Computer Vision systems.
• Understanding basic concepts of source control (Git) and software development.
• Understand the process of realizing a problem, designing hypothetical solutions, developing proof of concepts, and launching project initiatives.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills (any other European language is an asset).

• Analytical person: you draw relevant conclusions based on the data you have.
• Willing to learn
  
• Team player: you are keen to collaborate and establish strong relationships with your various contacts.

What we're offering

• Full-time, permanent position with 6-month probation period, and possibility of employment in Slovenia, UK, or Belgium.

• International environment, full of global learning opportunities and challenges.

• Pension scheme, Holliday allowance, Annual performance related bonus and other country specific benefits.

• Opportunity to make a difference in our sustainability and environment focused projects, with your set of skills.

• Collaboration and cooperation with the highly qualified and knowledgeable experts in the field.

About Knauf Insulation 

 Knauf Insulation products save energy, cut emissions and make sure buildings are good for the environment and keep people healthy, safe and well.

With over 40 years of experience in the insulation industry, we now employ nearly 6,000 people across more than 40 countries. We have with 21 manufacturing sites in 15 countries.

Knauf Insulation (KI) is part of the Knauf Group, which employs about 40,000 people worldwide, operating more than 300 factories, generating sales in excess of 12.5 billion Euros.

The Knauf Group was founded in 1932 and is a family-owned company driven by the values of Menschlichkeit (Humanity), Partnership, Commitment, and Entrepreneurship.

These values and the fast-moving environment in which we evolve allows us to take initiative and implement new processes or structures, working together and taking care of the others. We have lots of opportunities inside the company who allows you to consider to make your career with us.