Join us in Shaping the Future of Workforce Planning at Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is launching a brand-new Strategic Resourcing function—designed to transform how we forecast, plan, and optimise our workforce for the future. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of that change.
We are looking for a Strategic Resourcing Analyst who will play a pivotal role in building our workforce intelligence capability and unlocking the value of our new Workforce Planning & Capacity Management tool. If you're passionate about data, insights, resource optimisation, and enabling smarter business decisions, we want to hear from you.
About the Role
As a Strategic Resourcing Analyst, you will:
· Drive workforce analytics and reporting, providing high-quality insights that directly support strategic decision-making across the business.
· Leverage our new workforce planning and capacity management platform to identify trends, risks, and opportunities in resource demand and supply.
· Develop and maintain dashboards, scenario models, and forecasting tools to support project, portfolio, and organisational planning.
· Collaborate with Project Leaders, HR Business Partners, and Functional Leads to ensure accurate and timely workforce data.
· Support the evolution of our strategic workforce planning processes, standards, and governance as the team grows.
· Champion data literacy and insight-led resourcing across the organisation.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new team, influence key operational decisions, and contribute to building a future-ready workforce.
About You
You will thrive in this role if you:
· Have experience in workforce planning, resourcing, business analytics, or similar data-led roles.
· Are highly proficient with data tools (Power BI, Excel, or similar) and confident analysing complex datasets.
· Understand forecasting, capacity planning, or resource modelling principles.
· Are comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels and translating technical insights into clear business narratives.
· Are proactive, curious, and motivated to build new processes and capabilities from the ground up.
· Want to make a tangible impact on organisational performance through better workforce intelligence.
Why Laing O'Rourke?
Laing O'Rourke is committed to being a data-driven, future-focused engineering and construction enterprise. Joining our new Strategic Resourcing team means:
· Having a real voice in shaping our strategic workforce planning approach.
· Working with cutting-edge technology designed to transform how we deploy our people.
· Building a capability that directly enables business growth, performance, and productivity.
· Being part of a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where innovation is encouraged.
Ready to make a difference?
If you want to help redefine how Laing O'Rourke plans, deploys, and develops its workforce—and you thrive in a data-led, insight-driven environment—we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help build the foundations of our future workforce.
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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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