GIS Project Manager

GoGeomatics; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 107,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

A major energy provider based in Burnaby is seeking a GIS Project Manager to oversee GIS projects, ensuring effective planning, execution, and stakeholder management. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in geomatics or a related field with at least 8 years of relevant experience, particularly with ESRI products. The position offers a hybrid work environment, supporting the organization’s goals in sustainable energy management and innovative solutions.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Training opportunities

Career progression

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in geomatics, resource management, geography, or equivalent.
• Minimum of eight (8) years experience in GIS analysis and project support.
• Demonstrated leadership ability and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead GIS projects, including planning, budgeting, and execution.
• Oversee complex spatial analyses to support decision-making.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients and team members.

Skills

GIS project management

Spatial analysis

Leadership

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in geomatics or related field

Tools

ESRI GIS products

Job description

Source: BC Hydro

Job Title: GIS Project Manager

Job Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Annual Salary: $107,000.00 – 135,300.00

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We’re proud to be ranked as one of B.C.’s Top Employers and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we build an even cleaner B.C.

Job Description

Duties

• Lead GIS projects, including planning, budgeting, scheduling, risk assessment, and execution.
• Provide expert advice on GIS methods, data management, and analysis, ensuring work is carried out in a cost-effective manner using project management principles.
• Oversee and conduct complex spatial analyses to support decision-making.
• Develop and support the development of innovative systems and tools that facilitate collection, management, analysis, presenting and reporting of spatial and attribute data to meet project requirements.
• Manage resources (financial, technical, people) and adapt existing schedules, project timelines and budgets.
• Assigns work and provides instructions, advice and technical leadership and guidance to project staff; reviews work in progress and assesses completed work for accuracy, required results and quality assurance.
• Work with data custodians, managers, and users to ensure the security, integrity, currency, compatibility, and availability of data.
• Develop and maintain strong influential relationships with clients and project team members to champion teamwork and ensure project success.
• Manage expectations, handle sensitive issues, and balance conflicting priorities among clients; works to achieve consensus and agreement among stakeholders.
• Develops and/or accepts a wide variety of technical documents and maintains technical standards for GIS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in geomatics, resource management, geography, environmental science, or computer science or related area, AND/OR, a diploma in geographic information systems, OR, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Minimum of eight (8) years relevant experience supporting clients and/or project teams designing and developing spatial analysis solutions.
• Minimum of eight (8) years experience performing GIS analysis and mapping using ESRI GIS products.
• Project management knowledge and skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preference

• Managing and developing spatial and attribute data sets.
• Effective presentation skills, including the ability to to diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with a variety of natural resource, economic, and/or social data sets for the Province of BC.

Additional Information

• This position will be focused on supporting North Coast Transmission Projects.
• The location of this position is at our Burnaby office, and it is a hybrid role.

Before you apply, please confirm you meet BC Hydro’s time in role requirement. M&P employees must meet the time in role requirement specified in their most recent offer letter. For MoveUP and IBEW employees, the current time in role as outlined in the Collective Agreements will apply.

Don’t forget to update your Candidate Profile with your current resume and copies of your certifications. If applicable, include your Trades Qualification. This will ensure we have all the necessary information to assess your application without any delays.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their applications online at https://app.bchydro.com/careers/current_opp.html by 2026-02-17.

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On the BC Hydro Careers site, click on the Apply button in order to complete the steps to apply for this job. Please be sure to update your Candidate Profile with your current resume and include copies of your certifications, if applicable.

We’re always looking for exceptional people to bring new ideas, fresh thinking and the motivation to help shape the electricity system in B.C. It’s an exciting time to be a part of our team as we invest in our system and prepare to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

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We include everyone. We welcome applications from anyone, including members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.

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Flexible work model role definitions

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Our four role types identify the degree of flexibility an employee could have to work from home based on the type of work they do. The flexibility for an individual job is up to the manager for each position and the operational requirements. Employees also have the right to work full-time from the office if they prefer. All of our roles require at least some in-person time.

• IBEW/Field – No option to work from home
• Resident – Works primarily (4+ days per week) in the office.
• Hybrid – May be able to work from home up to 3 days per week.
• Remote – Works from home 4+ days per week