Data Scientist Intern: Forecasting, ML & Operational Analytics

Summit Utilities; Fort Smith (AR); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Summit Utilities invites applications for a Data Scientist Intern role based in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, AR. You will work under guidance to develop data science solutions for safe, reliable natural gas operations, exploring data, engineering features, building models, and presenting results to AI and Enterprise Data teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration, communication, and applying ML/analytics to operations, maintenance, weather normalization, and customer segmentation

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field; rising junior or senior undergraduate standing, or current graduate enrollment, preferred.
• Coursework, academic projects, or prior internship experience involving statistics, machine learning, or quantitative analytics.
• Exposure to the model development process — data preparation, feature engineering, training, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building, validating, and iterating statistical, machine learning, and optimization models supporting demand forecasting, weather normalization, asset health, maintenance, field operations optimization, and customer segmentation.
• Support exploratory data analysis, data profiling, and feature engineering across work order, weather/climate, SCADA, pipeline telemetry, billing, and gas usage data.
• Contribute to model development pipelines in Microsoft Fabric and assist with data quality checks and validation of inputs and outputs.

Skills

Python

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Data Science

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Summit Utilities invites applications for a Data Scientist Intern role based in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, or Little Rock, AR. You will work under guidance to develop data science solutions for safe, reliable natural gas operations, exploring data, engineering features, building models, and presenting results to AI and Enterprise Data teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration, communication, and applying ML/analytics to operations, maintenance, weather normalization, and customer segmentation