GIS Technician

Kier Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services provider based in Birmingham is seeking a GIS Technician to join their Design team. The ideal candidate will have strong IT skills, particularly with GIS applications and ArcGIS products. Responsibilities include supporting data analysis, preparing visual reports, and providing GIS services to the Civil and Structural Engineering team. This role offers competitive benefits including a matched pension scheme and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Life Assurance

Free health and wellbeing services

Training and development schemes

Electric Vehicle Leasing

Qualifications

• High level of IT competency and experience with Microsoft Office.
• Experience using ESRI ArcGIS products across various platforms.
• Knowledge of GIS trends and developments.

Responsibilities

• Provide GIS services such as data analysis and processing.
• Ensure high accuracy of GIS data management and analysis.
• Prepare maps, reports, and relevant information for stakeholders.

Skills

IT competency

Experience with Microsoft Office

SQL databases

ESRI ArcGIS products

GIS application development

Tools

ArcGIS

GPS tools

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a GIS Technician to join our Design team based in Birmingham. The team offer professional support and solutions development services to a diverse range of teams and businesses within Kier. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location

Birmingham

Hours

37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As a GIS Technician, you\'ll be working within the Civil and Structural Engineering team, supporting them in providing GIS services such as data analysis and processing from all areas of business and displaying outcomes in meaningful and understandable ways, such as on maps, graphs, charts and spreadsheets.

• Ensuring high accuracy of all GIS data creation, management and analysis, providing a dedicated GIS resource to a nominated area of the business
• Assisting in the advancement of GIS and supported solutions that are delivering to the wider Kier business
• Giving training on the use of GIS related software, applications and documents as required
• Preparing maps, reports, and other relevant information to stakeholders
• Capturing location assets using various technologies and GPS tools

What are we looking for?

This role of GIS Technician is great for you if:

• You have a high level of IT competency, experience with all Microsoft Office package and the use of complex SQL databases, facilitating and overseeing data automation and data analytics
• Are using a range of the ESRI ArcGIS products across desktop, server / web and mobile devices, knowledge of asset management principles, an understanding of GIS and mobile applications, GIS application development, spatial analysis and report generation
• Relevant knowledge in trends and developments in the geographic information systems field for application to responsibilities under charge

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Health and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.