About the Role
Drives internal data analytics projects, ranging from short explorations to long-term implementations of advanced predictive and machine learning models. Explores existing data and seeks new data sources, applying analytical and data science methods to solve business problems. Communicates technical and analytical concepts across all organizational levels, influencing roadmaps and decision-making with data-based recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Builds robust Agentic AI and RAG applications using Responsible AI practices across model development, deployment and governance.
- Performs time-series analyses, hypothesis testing, and causal analyses to statistically assess relative impact and extract trends.
- Researches and resolves data inquiries and requests.
- Provides insights and serves as a subject matter expert for department data.
- Documents requirements for data science and reporting projects.
- Supports the development of standard data analyses, reports, and dashboards.
- Collaborates with other teams to gather data and build relationships.
- Transforms data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Designs experiments and interprets the results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions.
- Builds statistical models to enhance understanding of trends and predicts future performance.
- Finds new opportunities and novel applications for core internal data.
- Translates and champions Machine Learning and advanced analytics capabilities for non-technical audiences.
- Participates in end-to-end data science project lifecycle – data mining and exploration, model development and evaluation, solution deployment in production, measurement, and tracking.
- Designs, validates, and evaluates solutions using Python, SQL and other programming tools.
- Educates and mentors team members on best practices for data analytics including data science techniques, statistical programming languages and packages, and data preparation.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.
Requirements
- Master’s degree preferred.
- 5 years of demonstrated experience working with large databases to perform complex analysis.
- 5 years of demonstrated experience with statistics and multivariate analytical techniques including multivariate regression, logistic regression, cluster analysis, design of experiments, machine learning, and decision trees.
- Demonstrated expertise building and deploying machine learning/AI models in a cloud computing environment (e.g., AWS) and/or enterprise IT environment.
- Demonstrated expertise with common commercial analytics topics (e.g., pricing optimization, customer segmentation, customer churn/lifetime value, etc.) or operational analytics topics (e.g., logistics analytics, route optimization, maintenance optimization, etc.).
- Bachelor’s Degree in an analytical field (Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics, Engineering).
- 5 years of experience with advanced programming in Python or R and SQL, conducting complex statistical analysis and building machine learning algorithms with large databases in cloud computing environments.
Skills
- Generative AI
- Agentic architectures
- RAG solutions
- Responsible AI practices
- Python
- SQL
- Excel
- PowerBI
- AWS
- Snowflake
Experience Level
- Data Scientist III
- 5 years of experience
Education Level
- Master’s degree preferred
- Bachelor's Degree in an analytical field (Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics, Engineering)
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
- Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
- Employee discount programs.
- Retirement plan with a generous company match.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Paid Time Off (PTO).
About the Company
- Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) is a leader in the environmental services industry.
- We provide customers with the most complete set of products and services, including recycling, waste, special waste, hazardous waste and field services.
- Our industry-leading commitments to advance circularity and support decarbonization are helping deliver on our vision to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world.
- In 2025, Republic’s total company revenue was $16.6 billion, and adjusted EBITDA was $5.3 billion.
- We serve 13 million customers and operate more than 1,000 locations, including collection and transfer stations, recycling and polymer centers, treatment facilities, and landfills.
- By combining local operational management with standardized business practices, we drive greater operating efficiencies across the company while maintaining day-to-day operational decisions at the local level, closest to the customer.
- Our customers, including small businesses, major corporations and municipalities, want a partner with the expertise and capabilities to effectively manage their multiple recycling and waste streams.
- They choose Republic Services because we are committed to exceeding their expectations and helping them achieve their sustainability goals.
- Our 42,000 team members understand that it's not just what we do that matters, but how we do it.
- Our company values guide our daily actions: Safe, Committed to Serve, Environmentally Responsible, Driven, Human-Centered.
- We are proud of our high employee engagement score of 86.
- We have an inclusive and diverse culture where every voice counts.
- Our team positively impacted 5.1 million people in 2024 through the Republic Services Charitable Foundation and local community grants.
- Republic Services’ strategy is designed to generate profitable growth.
- Through acquisitions and industry advancements, we safely and sustainably manage our customers’ multiple waste streams through a North American footprint of vertically integrated assets.
- We focus on three areas of growth to meet the increasing needs of our customers: recycling and waste, environmental solutions and sustainability innovation.
- We continue to expand our recycling and waste business footprint throughout North America through organic growth and targeted acquisitions.
- Our comprehensive environmental solutions capabilities help customers safely manage their most technical waste streams.
- Republic’s recent innovations to advance circularity and decarbonization demonstrate our unique ability to leverage sustainability as a platform for growth.
- The Republic Services Polymer Center is the nation’s first integrated plastics recycling facility.
- Republic is committed to harnessing landfill gas, a natural byproduct of decomposing waste, and converting it to energy.
- Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies
- CDP Discloser
- Dow Jones Best-In-Class Indices
- Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies
- Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies
- Great Place to Work
- Sustainability Yearbook S&P Global
Equal Opportunity
- Republic Services is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, relationship or association with a protected veteran (spouses or other family members), genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- For any concerns relating to Republic Services’ commitment to equal opportunity employment, you may contact the AWARE Line at 1-866-3-AWARE-4.
