IBM Hiring for Meteorological Operations Specialist at Andover, MA

Introduction
The world’s largest brands in transportation, insurance, aviation, and media depend on The Weather Company, an IBM Business for the most accurate and precise weather updates. Our organization delivers forecasts around the world via seamless cross-platform technology. We connect clients and consumers to the weather intel they need. This is done by aggregating rich datasets — both business and consumer — to create analytics and insight which are delivered as personal, reliable, and actionable weather information. At The Weather Company, we deliver solutions that allow businesses to achieve the positive outcomes in the face of severe or unexpected weather.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The Weather Company, an IBM Business is hiring a Meteorological Operations Specialist. This is a great opportunity to become an important member of the TWC Meteorological Services Team. The team is responsible for providing quality control and meteorological support for premiere data products and services worldwide. Your meteorological and technical expertise, along with knowledge of weather-sensitive operations will help maintain high standards for product timeliness, accuracy and quality our customers expect.

• Provide meteorological quality control for The Weather Company’s global products and services including Mosaic Radar, satellite imagery, lightning data and market-specific custom graphics
• Monitor The Weather Company’s central facility system involving processes that ingest, generate and broadcast unaltered and value added data products and services
• Collaborate with technical staff to fault isolate and resolve issues impacting data services
• Collaborate closely with the forecast teams regarding synoptic, regional and mesoscale weather events expected to impact customer assets
• Generate storm following short fused forecasts depicting information for significant weather events including severe weather and tropical systems
• Provide resources for special projects involving all aspects of Meteorological Services as needed

This position is a hybrid work arrangement with the ability to work in IBM’s Andover, MA office location.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences or a related area
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office-1 year
• Proven understanding of theoretical and practical meteorology-1 year
• Ability to deliver operational content consistently and accurately within rigid time constraints
• Demonstrable organizational, data analysis, data collation and process management skills
• Effectively summarize large quantities of data into clear, concise information under rigid time constraints
• Demonstrable proficiency in utilizing advanced workstation technology and scientific methods to derive forecast products in an operational environment
• Ability to effectively multitask and adjust priorities based on changing weather conditions in a fast-paced operational environment is essential-1 year
• Required to work rotating shifts on a 24×7/365 basis, including overnights, weekends, and holidays

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with Windows/Linux operating systems-1 year
• Familiarity with C++/PERL/FORTRAN/Python programming languages-6 months

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

– Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.