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Brunel has partnered with an Resources industry leader to offer an exciting contract opportunity for an AI & Data Science Specialist.
Opportunity to join a data and AI team delivering machine learning and advanced analytics solutions across a large mining environment. This role focuses on building production-ready AI solutions and translating complex data into practical business insights.
Focus:
- Develop, deploy and support AI, machine learning and advanced analytics solutions
- Ensure solutions are sustainable, supportable and well documented
- Use best-practice source control, modelling and MLOps approaches (e.g. Git, MLflow)
- Monitor and improve Azure-based analytics platforms
- Work iteratively with business stakeholders to validate and communicate insights
- Present complex analytical outcomes in clear, business-friendly language
- Contribute to growing AI adoption across the business
- Stay current with emerging analytics and AI technologies and recommend improvements
- Extensive experience in a data science-related role
- Experience in the mining industry working with mining datasets (fleet management, historians, SAP, delay accounting)
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics
- Strong experience with Python (or similar), statistical modelling and modern machine learning techniques
- Proven experience with Azure-based data and analytics platforms
- Experience with data lakes, SQL, Spark, ML frameworks, and data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI)
- Experience with enterprise-scale AI and large language models
Desirable but not essential:
- Postgraduate qualification in a quantitative or mining-related field
- Experience with Databricks, MLOps/DevOps pipelines and deep learning frameworks
- Experience with NLP and advanced AI use cases
- Participation in data science competitions or hackathons (e.g. Unearthed, Kaggle)
- Strong stakeholder engagement and storytelling capability
About Brunel:
Brunel is a recruitment and flexible workforce solution provider which connects talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled roles across a variety of technical, professional, trades and craft disciplines, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.
Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases of operation in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Port Moresby, which are further backed by the strength and reach of a truly global network spanning over 45 countries, 120 offices and 45 years of successful operation.
Brunel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.
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