HPC Construction Data Analyst: Data Center Insights

Iris Energy; Childress (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IREN is seeking a Construction Data Analyst to establish trusted reporting and actionable insights across an air-cooled HPC data center program, integrating schedule, cost, procurement, workforce, and quality data. This role requires collaboration with construction leadership and multi-discipline teams to identify risk and improve forecast accuracy.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree and 3+ years in data analytics or project controls, advanced Excel, Power BI/Tableau, SQL, and knowledge of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Data Science, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data analytics, project controls, or construction reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and a business-intelligence platform such as Power BI or Tableau, including data modeling, dashboard development, and tools such as Power Query, DAX, or comparable functionality.
• Working proficiency in SQL and experience extracting, cleaning, transforming, joining, and reconciling data from multiple systems; familiarity with APIs or workflow-automation tools is beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of construction controls, including CPM schedules, work breakdown structures, cost codes, budgets, commitments, change management, earned value, productivity, procurement, and forecasting.
• Ability to interpret project data across electrical, air-cooled mechanical, and civil/structural scopes from design and procurement through installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Demonstrated ability to establish data definitions, perform quality checks, document calculation logic, maintain traceability, and produce accurate, audit-ready reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into concise findings, clear visualizations, and practical actions for field teams and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the project reporting framework, including data definitions, KPI calculations, reporting calendars, responsibility assignments, and a consistent source of truth for construction performance.
• Integrate data from schedules, cost systems, procurement logs, Procore or comparable platforms, contractor reports, daily field records, QA/QC systems, safety records, commissioning platforms, and turnover trackers.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and scorecards for project leadership and discipline teams covering milestones, cost, installed quantities, productivity, workforce, procurement, changes, constraints, risks, quality, commissioning, and turnover readiness.
• Validate and reconcile owner, contractor, and vendor data; investigate exceptions, correct inconsistencies, document source and calculation logic, and preserve an audit trail for reported results.
• Analyze schedule health, including critical and near-critical paths, float erosion, milestone variance, look-ahead constraints, progress trends, and recovery-plan performance; provide early warning of emerging delivery risks.
• Analyze budget, commitments, actual costs, estimate to complete, estimate at completion, cash flow, change exposure, and forecast variance in coordination with project controls, commercial, finance, and construction teams.
• Track electrical readiness from design release and long-lead procurement through installation, testing, and energization for major systems such as medium- and low-voltage distribution, generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS equipment, and busway.
• Track air-cooled mechanical readiness, including equipment release, delivery, installation, startup, controls integration, functional testing, and commissioning of ventilation, air-handling, cooling, and related heat-rejection systems.
• Track civil and structural progress across earthwork, grading, foundations, structural steel or precast erection, slabs, roads, underground utilities, building enclosure, and dry-in milestones.
• Measure field progress and productivity using installed quantities, planned-versus-earned hours, manpower, daily reports, photographs, inspections, and payment applications; reconcile reported progress with observable field conditions.
• Automate repeatable data preparation and reporting workflows, maintain clear documentation and access controls, train report users, and continuously improve data quality, timeliness, and usability.
• Prepare concise weekly and monthly performance reports, explain drivers behind trends and variances, elevate risks and data gaps, and support decisions that protect phased building delivery, capacity milestones, commissioning, and final turnover.

Skills

Data analytics

Project controls

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Data modeling

Communication

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in data analytics or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Primavera P6

Procore

Autodesk Construction Cloud

ERP systems

Job description

IREN is seeking a Construction Data Analyst to establish trusted reporting and actionable insights across an air-cooled HPC data center program, integrating schedule, cost, procurement, workforce, and quality data. This role requires collaboration with construction leadership and multi-discipline teams to identify risk and improve forecast accuracy.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree and 3+ years in data analytics or project controls, advanced Excel, Power BI/Tableau, SQL, and knowledge of