Job Description

Advanced Analytics Office is a leading an internal factory platform development that enables real-time analytics and optimization of factory processes. The platform has been implemented at various factories globally and added significant business value. The selected candidate will be a part of a dynamic team working closely with factory operations and the analytics team to provide operations research and analytics solutions, specifically designed to address business challenges. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a team that's instrumental in Western Digital’s Industry 4.0 journey. We are changing the way how analytics is used across global operations sites. This 20 hours Technician position covers the following activities:

• Support (manufacturing) operations analytics projects at global sites.
• Collect information about the business problems, understand the related current practices and the desired solution.
• Define and implement new analytics models (e.g. operations research or machine learning), implement them in Python language and assess their performance using real data.
• Conduct numerical experiments with the model(s), and present the results to the key project stakeholders.
• Support the go-live phase of analytics applications.
• Maintain the models, participate in CI/CD activities.

Qualifications

• Ongoing MS studies in Industrial Engineering, Applied Math, Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to contribute delivering quality services and solutions, as a member of global, distributed teams focused.
• Cooperation skills, to work in a team under supervision of senior experts, while ability to work self-paced on individual assignments too.
• Familiarity with industrial engineering concepts, WIP Management, Production Control and preferred experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Good analytics skills in the context of factory optimization, leveraging OR techniques e.g. linear and integer programming, constraint programming.
• Demonstrated experience in Python programming.
• Skills in writing basic database queries for SQL platforms.
• Working knowledge of declarative modeling tools (e.g. IBM CPLEX, FICO Xpress, Gurobi etc.)
• Good abstraction skills, critical thinking and problem solving ability. 
• Strong English verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

The future. It’s on you. You & Western Digital.

We’ve been storing the world’s data for more than 50 years. Once, it was the most important thing we could do for data. Now we’re helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can.

The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and governments come to us for the technologies and solutions they need to capture, preserve, access, and transform their data.

But we can’t do it alone. Today’s exceptional data challenges require your exceptional skills. It’s You & Us. Together, we’re the next big thing in data.

Western Digital® data-centric solutions are found under the G-Technology™, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile™, Upthere™, and WD® brands.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS DETAILS

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Colorado or remote jobs that can be performed in Colorado.  This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.  You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Virgin Pulse Program; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.