GIS Technician

Overview:

The Position:

We are looking to appoint a GIS Technician to assist in the delivery of GIS services to our Utilities and Infrastructure Team based out of our Gloucester office with a hybrid / remote working environment.

Main Responsibilities, Tasks and Key Duties:

• Data capture, management, analysis and validation
• Data conversion and integration
• Map production for Land Referencing products
• Development and implementation of methodologies for creation and use of spatial data
• Digitising, editing, coding, and annotating line, point and polygon data
• Creation of Land Registry compliant Easement, Consent and Wayleave drawings
• Creation of landowner plans for attachment to referencing forms
• Meeting with internal clients to determine GIS requirements

The Candidate:

• A degree qualification in GIS or a related field. MSc would be desirable but not essential.
• The ideal candidate will have two or more years commercial experience in a similar role and be able to provide demonstratable experience of GIS, technical consultancy and the delivery of tasks to time, accuracy, quality whilst meeting cost objectives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A high level of competence using ESRI, ArcGIS product suit, including its extensions
• A sound understanding of spatial data structures and fundamental concepts of GIS
• Spatial database design and management, preferably with ESRI geodatabases
• Ability to liaise with internal and external clients to deliver high quality GIS output for projects
• Able to work on their own and with a wider project team based in multiple locations
• Experience of using Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and other data products
• Proficient in the delivery of allocated project tasks, to quality, time and budget requirements;
• Have good problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
• Attention to detail
• Be adaptable and flexible
• A desire to innovate, looking for new ways of doing things effectively
• Excellent time management
• Ability to deal with pressure
• Ability to work independently as well as in an interdisciplinary team;
• Clean and full driving licence

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with environment, planning and engineering related datasets
• Experience with working and controlling a large number of evolving datasets
• Experience in SQL server
• Experience of Web GIS applications using ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS online
• Experience of ESRI Model Builder, Python and FME