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 Birmingham 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