Lead Digital Developer - Great Grid Partnership - Birmingham
Are you curious, driven, and passionate about using technology to solve real-world challenges? Are you an expert in project management in the digital space, with experience streamlining processes and implementing across the project?
Join our Digital Team supporting the Great Grid Partnership, a major UK infrastructure programme helping deliver the Great Grid Upgrade. In this role, you'll be the go-to digital specialist, creating data-driven solutions that improve decision-making, streamline processes, and unlock the value of project data.
The role sits within our Power Sector portfolio, supporting the Great Grid Partnership (GGP) for National Grid, a critical national infrastructure programme delivering the UK's Great Grid Upgrade. Along with our Laing O'Rourke delivery teams, you will work closely with our delivery partners and National Grid stakeholders to support
The successful delivery of complex energy projects through the intelligent use of data and digital tools. You will play a key role in advancing digital maturity across the programme,
supporting consistent data capture, developing and maintaining Power BI insights aligned to the Build Twin, automating processes, and upskilling site teams to help drive adoption.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Create and enhance Power Apps and Power Automate workflows.
- Analyse, integrate, and transform data to generate actionable insights.
- Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to identify digital improvement opportunities.
- Support and train users to increase digital adoption and data quality.
- Drive innovation through automation, analytics, and modern digital tools.
What We're Looking For
- Experience with Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Excel, and Microsoft 365.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders and translate business needs into practical solutions.
- Experience working with data, reporting, and process improvement
- Construction, engineering, GIS, SQL, Python, Fieldview, or AI tool experience.
- Comfortable working across multidisciplinary construction teams to translate operational needs into scalable digital solutions.
- Knowledge and understanding of operating requirements and procedures within corporate databases, such as SQL servers etc.
- Experience working in a data-driven or digitally enabled delivery environment.
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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