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Salary– DOE
Things you’ll get to do:
- Use your GIS technical skills
- Assist with gathering, compiling, mapping, and analyzing planning and infrastructure data
- Enter data and populate database tables and attributes
- Review and interpret data sources
- Enter, edit and update GIS spatial data, (including points, lines and polygons, and attribute data) into databases or layers
- Perform data extractions, transformation and loading processes
- Enter parameters and produce a variety of maps, shapefiles, feature classes, graphics, tables, reports, and other information products
- Create and manage data, information, and documentation
- Create, edit, and maintain GIS data, reports, processes, procedures, workflows, and other technical documentation
- Record and document details related to map updates, additions, and deletions
- Ensure data integrity
- Perform field work to collect or verify data
- Help the team continuously improve
- Identify inefficiencies in processes and methods
- Formulate recommendations for improvements
- Research best practices and trends to ensure compliance with regulations and operational plans
- Assist in system testing and debugging
- Assist with cross-departmental GIS projects
- Assist in facilitating small group project meetings and client work sessions
- Support other team members in client meetings
- Research and respond to mapping, analysis, report, and information requests.
Abilities we’re looking for:
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers and collaborate across diverse departments, stakeholders, and within the GIS Team
- Understand concepts, customer needs, and direction of system development
- Perform highly detailed work
- A natural curiosity and ability to independently research answers/solve problems
- Provide and accept assistance and feedback
- Work quickly and accurately with minimal supervision
- Adapt to change and reallocate task priorities
- Handle multiple, concurrent tasks
Qualifications
The minimum qualifications for the GIS Technician position are:
- An Associate’s degree in geography, environmental studies, computer science, engineering, GIS, or related field; AND
- One year of professional experience (outside of academia) regularly operating GIS using Esri’s software suite
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- Three to six years professional experience in the GIS field using Esri’s software suite, AND a certificate in GIS
The minimum qualifications for the GIS Technician Senior position are:
- An Associate’s degree in geography, environmental studies, computer science, engineering, GIS, or related field; AND
- Three years of professional experience (outside of academia) regularly operating GIS using Esri’s software suite
-OR-
- Five to eight years professional experience in the GIS field using Esri’s software suite, AND a certificate in GIS
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience editing within a versioned enterprise geodatabase
- Experience working with Autodesk products including AutoCAD
- Experience with managing utility, planning, and public safety GIS data
- Experience working in local, regional, state or federal government