The Data Analyst Intern will help to drive informed decision-making by extracting insights from diverse data sources. The intern may assist the project team or departments by developing and maintaining reporting and analytical tools (Excel, Smartsheet, Power BI), cleaning data and ensuring data quality, ensuring data privacy and security, data visualization and reporting, and other duties as assigned. The Data Analyst Intern will also help prepare construction data for data science initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience in Windows and Microsoft Office 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point and Teams), and have a general understanding of working within a computer network.
- Knowledge of, or ability to quickly learn, project management software such as Procore[BA1] or Smartsheet.
- Experience with data analysis tools such as MS Power BI and Python.
- Experience with data reporting tools such as MS Power BI, Matplotlib, and Seaborn.
- Knowledge of, or experience with, Python programming and machine learning algorithms.
Responsibilities
- Extract, transform, and load data from diverse data sources for data analysis and reporting uses.
- Check for data quality and clean data, if necessary.
- Help to maintain reports and dashboards for Department Managers and Project Managers.
- Create reports and dashboards in Power BI.
- Help to mine historical construction data and improve data quality where needed.
- Assist in data strategy efforts, including updating data flowcharts and creating data swim lanes.
- Assist in data science efforts such as identifying current construction activities where machine learning or Python automation might be useful, sourcing data for data science activities, preparing data for data science activities, training, and testing machine learning algorithms, and building data science workflows.
Other
- Be willing to travel for up to a week to a project site that may be located outside of the Pacific Northwest.
- Demonstrate an understanding of construction and/or a willingness to learn in a fast-paced, on the job environment[BA2].
- Highly developed visual observation and interpretation skills.
- Ability to work well and maintain a cooperative attitude through high-pressure situations.
- Excellent time-management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work while frequently interrupted by phone calls and questions on work in progress.
