Recommended transition steps from General Engineering / Operations to Data Science?

Hey all,

I'm a recent grad (10 months) from a top-30 school with an engineering degree. I took a job immediately in Operations (think supply chain, quality, manufacturing engineering), but feel underutilized given some of my mathematical and technical background. It's a lot of emailing people, teeth pulling and document updating. OK leadership opportunities but the work environment and pay are underwhelming.

Just for some context, in college I took engineering, computer science, math and stats courses for my major... …

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