Thesis work: Estimating Installed Engine Population

Volvo Group; Göteborgs kommun; In loco; SEK 201.000 - 268.000; Part-time

Descrizione del lavoro

Volvo Group is seeking a master's student for a thesis project on estimating installed engine populations for Volvo Penta. You will map external data sources, design a triangulation method with explicit uncertainty, and validate outcomes with internal data, collaborating with global data science and market-analysis teams.

This role offers hands-on experience with real, global industrial data and direct contribution to a leading transport technology group.

Competenze

• Master's student should have strong statistical estimation and data handling skills.
• Experience with incomplete or conflicting data and uncertainty.
• Familiarity with Python or R for analysis.

Mansioni

• Identify and map external data sources relevant to engine populations.
• Assess sources on coverage, granularity, update frequency, cost and reliability.
• Design and implement triangulation method with explicit uncertainty.
• Validate method against internal Volvo Penta data and analyze discrepancies.
• Collaborate with data scientists, market analysts and stakeholders globally.

Conoscenze

Python

R

Data wrangling

Formazione

Masters student in Data Science or related field

Descrizione del lavoro

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Thesis work: Estimating Installed Engine Population

Location:

Göteborg, SE, 417 15

Position Type: Student

Permanent/Temporary: Temporary

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Volvo Pentais a world-leading supplier of engines and complete power systems for marine and industrial applications. Volvo Penta has developed a global leadership and one of the industry’s strongest brands.

Background:

Volvo Penta sells engines through OEMs, importers and dealers across more than 200 countries. Once an engine leaves the factory we often lose sight of it: it may be built into a machine, exported, resold and operated for two decades without us ever seeing it again. Only a minority of the fleet is connected, and connectivity is unevenly distributed across markets.

Expected Outcomes:

• Source inventory: a documented, maintainable catalogue of external sources, with coverage, granularity, cost and reliability assessed for each.
• Triangulation method: a transparent, reproducible method for combining sources into a market-level estimate with stated uncertainty.
• Validation study: an applied comparison against internal estimates for selected markets, with analysis of discrepancies and their causes.
• Recommendation: a prioritised proposal for which sources to invest in, and how to integrate them into ongoing analytics.

Qualifications and Personal Profile

We are looking for master's students in Data Science, Industrial Engineering and Management, Statistics or other relevant fields. We value:

• Comfort working with incomplete, inconsistent and contradictory data, and the judgement to reason about what a number actually represents.
• Working knowledge of Python or R, and of statistical estimation and uncertainty.
• Curiosity and persistence in tracking down information

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and map the external data sources relevant to off-highway and industrial engine populations, spanning public, regulatory, commercial and industry-analyst sources.
• Assess each source on coverage, granularity, update frequency, cost and reliability.
• Design and implement a method for triangulating multiple sources into a population estimate per market, with explicit uncertainty.
• Validate the method against internal Volvo Penta data and analyse where and why sources disagree.
• Investigate what external data can contribute to estimating engine survival and service life.
• Recommend which sources Volvo Penta should acquire, subscribe to or monitor.
• Hands-on experience with real, messy, global industrial data in a leading global company.
• Collaborate with data scientists, market analysts and business stakeholders worldwide.
• Contribute to an underexplored methodological area, with academic as well as practical value.

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