GIS Technician

Kier Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in transportation is seeking a GIS Technician in Birmingham. The role involves managing highway asset information and utilizing GIS tools like ArcGIS Pro. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Join us to make a difference in transportation.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

24/7 virtual GP service

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Experience with ArcGIS Pro, data capture, and data manipulation.
• Good reporting and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage highway asset information using GIS.
• Capture and analyze asset maintenance data.
• Provide GIS expertise and support to workstreams.

Skills

Analytical

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

ArcGIS Pro

MS Excel

MS Access

Job description

We're looking for a GIS Technician to join our Transportation team based in Birmingham. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Birmingham

Hours: 40 hours per week

What will you be responsible for?

As GIS Technician, you'll be working within the Asset Management team, managing all highway asset information, using an asset management system and geographical information systems, as part of the Birmingham highways interim services contract being delivered by Kier.

Your day to day will include:

• Capturing, managing and analysing highways asset maintenance data in GIS (ArcGIS and Confirm) from multiple sources and in a variety of formats both desktop and mobile orientated, georeferencing and digitising map data, preparing and maintaining data in ArcGIS Online Environments
• Semi-automation of cartographic workflow (Model builder/ Python), producing reports utilising data visualisation, presenting and explaining your findings helping support decision making
• Providing GIS expertise and support to other workstreams as needed, training and mentoring company personnel on the ArcGIS systems when required
• Being creative, introducing new ideas, knowledge sharing and suggestions improving what we do
• Undertaking and managing condition surveys of highway pavement assets using DVI, Grip Tester, SCANNER and Deflectograph

What are we looking for?

This role of GIS Technician is great for you if:

• You can demonstrate sound experience with ArcGIS Pro, digitisation, data capture, translation, data editing, manipulation, data querying, filtering and summarising (ArcGIS, MS Excel, MS Access etc.)
• Bring good reporting and presentation skills, must have excellent analytical, mapping, and problem-solving attributes
• Can work with a range of stakeholders with the ability to communicate in a technical and non-technical manner

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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