Operations Research Scientist

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Date: Sep 10, 2024

Location: Atlanta, GA, US, 30308

Company: Norfolk Southern Corp.

Norfolk Southern offers a unique opportunity to be part of our proud legacy that spans nearly 200 years. We are a customer-centric, operations-driven team dedicated to advancing safety, serving communities, and driving innovation for tomorrow's rail. As part of Norfolk Southern, you’ll join a collaborative team where there are opportunities for growth across the organization. We are building a culture where everyone can thrive by owning and driving exceptional results, being humble and leading with trust, serving our customers with excellence, and collaborating and coaching to win.

Job Description

The Operations Research Scientist will be responsible for providing management with recommendations for the use of analytical models and decision support systems. In this position you will drive productivity, efficiency, achieve operational excellence, increase revenues, and reduce costs.

Responsibilities

• Provide production support and enhancements for existing operations research applications.

• Design new mathematical or machine learning models and implement them in programming language such as C/C++, Java or Python.

• Evaluate the accuracy and quality of data sources and develop appropriate remedies for data gaps.

• Collaborate with business partners in various departments to identify opportunities for process improvement.

• Work with application development teams to integrate developed models into a production environment.

• Perform a leadership role and supervise a group of people to achieve goals by creating an environment that promotes positive communication, encourages bonding of team members, and demonstrates flexibility.

• Ensures work efforts are compliant with approved corporate policies, departmental standards, and procedures.

• Applies understanding of industry best practices, optimization, methodologies, and emerging technologies in operations research.

Education:

Advanced degree, e.g., Ph.D. or M.S. in industrial engineering, operations research, information systems, mathematics, statistics, or other science and engineering fields.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or management information system.

Skills Required:

• 1-3 years of experience in developing decision support systems using operations research models.

• Experience with CPLEX, Gurobi or other optimization solvers.

• Proficiency with programming languages for software development such in Python, Java, C/C++ Proficiency with database programming languages such as SQL.

• 1-3 years of experience in software development methodology.

Skills Preferred:

• Railroad business knowledge for general service design principles, including railroad blocking, train scheduling and routing algorithms.

• Railroad business knowledge for how to measure and analyze train performance.

• Proficiency with LINUX or UNIX platforms

• Machine learning, neural network, and deep learning

• Simulation with Anylogic or ARENA

• Experience with operations research modeling, simulation, and advanced analytics in the B2B transportation or railroad industries.

Work Conditions

Environment: Office remote, ideal candidate must be based or relocated within 60 miles Atlanta.

Shift Work: No

On-Call: Yes

Weekend Work: No

Company Overview

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com .

At Norfolk Southern, we believe in celebrating our individuality. By leveraging the unique backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, we can create a culture of innovation, respect, and inclusion. We know that employees thrive in a workplace where differing viewpoints, ideas, and experiences are freely shared and valued. As such, we encourage all employees to contribute their distinctive skills and capabilities to our organization.

Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Together, we power progress.