Scrum Master R&D

September 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Scrum Master R&D

Scrum Master

UK-based with visits to our Dartford Head Office as required as well as occasional visits to our offsite manufacturing facility at the Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction, Nottinghamshire.

Do you have the passion and drive to challenge and transform sustainability approaches in the construction industry?

  • Our Research & Development team supports the global Laing O'Rourke business through improving delivery, certainty and productivity, and advancing our reputation as leaders for innovation and engineering excellence.

What will the role look like?

  • Scrum Master for the Transformation & Innovation team which supports the global Laing O'Rourke business through improving our ability to win work, improving delivery certainty and productivity, and advancing our reputation as a leader for innovation and engineering excellence.
  • A key member of the Technical Function, supporting the management, assurance and performance of projects, and lead support of opportunities from their transition to Agile ways of working.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in playing Scrum Master role across a diverse portfolio of Products that comprised of minimum 2 Scrum teams.
  • Hands-on experience in managing projects and documentation within Atlassian toolset (Jira and Confluence) and detailed understanding of the PowerApps suite of tools.
  • Accreditation on Agile Scrum Master.
  • Experience of working with Scrum in an Agile or Scaled Agile (e.g. SAFe), DevOps environment.
  • Knowledge of Agile approaches XP, Kanban, Crystal etc is desirable.
  • Experience working in a Research & Development environment is desirable

About us:

We 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.

Diversity & Sustainability:

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

Additional: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, then please get in touch.