GIS Specialist – Spatial Data & Asset Mapping

Mount Isa City Council; Mount Isa City; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Isa City Council is seeking a spatial information professional to support and expand its data services. The role focuses on data maintenance, analysis, and export, with responsibilities to create site- and network-specific map products and to interpret engineering drawings for dataset updates.

The position requires experience with GIS software, data quality assurance, and the ability to understand customer needs and translate them into practical map solutions.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Spatial Science and related discipline or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of spatial information services across all Council units.
• Perform data maintenance, analysis and data export.
• Create site- and network-specific map products.

Skills

Communication skills

Data extraction from drawings

Business understanding

Problem solving (guided)

Computer literacy

Education

Spatial science / surveying / IT / civil engineering / town planning degree or equivalent

Tools

ArcGIS Suite

PowerBI

Microsoft Excel

Databases / programming languages

Job description

Mount Isa City Council is seeking a spatial information professional to support and expand its data services. The role focuses on data maintenance, analysis, and export, with responsibilities to create site- and network-specific map products and to interpret engineering drawings for dataset updates.

The position requires experience with GIS software, data quality assurance, and the ability to understand customer needs and translate them into practical map solutions.