Digital Insights Specialist

About Laing O’Rourke

Laing O’Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with over 50 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure including more than a decade under the Laing O’Rourke banner. We are currently delivering some of Australia’s most exciting projects across the transport, building construction, defence, airports, mining, civil and social infrastructure sectors. Laing O’Rourke is committed to becoming the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry. Laing O’Rourke is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation – Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

About the role

We are currently seeking a Digital Insights Specialist for a role based in Perth, WA. This role offers great career prospects with a privately-owned tier 1 constructor and international engineering enterprise.

Key responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to understand their decision insight needs and pain points leveraging techniques such as design-thinking;
• Translate these needs to data and technical requirements; and undertake relevant data analysis and low-fidelity solution prototyping (e.g., wireframing) to validate end-user needs;
• Design and develop relevant data products, such as Power BI dashboards, including defining the data models;
• Work with broader LOR technology teams (IT, Digital) to translate and inform the transition of ad-hoc data products into more scalable and industrialised solutions;
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to validate and quality assurance data accuracy; and
• Guide, coach and mentor end-users to leverage and institute relevant data products (e.g., dashboards) within their decision-making process

About you

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with a broad spectrum of business stakeholders from shop-floor to senior leaders
• A user-centric mindset to understand and define requirements and proven ability to translate user needs for insights into data and visualisation requirements
• Experience in a hands-on role interpreting and telling stories with data across a wide range of datasets and applications
• Ability to cleanse, transform and validate data
• Demonstrable experience in working with and across a wide range of data and analytics related technologies, including but not limited to SQL, Power BI, QlikSense
• Experience working with cost and schedule data (Prism and P6) is preferable.

Benefits

We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, family friendly work practices, additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. We recognise the increasing importance of flexible work arrangements and family friendly work practices to enable and maintain a diverse, adaptive and high performing workforce.

As a proud RAP organisation, Laing O’Rourke is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Download our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan at www.laingorourke.com

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.