GIS Technician

Kier Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a GIS Technician in Birmingham to support GIS services, ensuring high accuracy in data management and analysis. The ideal candidate has strong IT skills, experience with ESRI ArcGIS products, and knowledge of GIS applications. This full-time position offers a competitive salary between £27,000 and £29,000. Join us in driving innovative, sustainable solutions in a diverse team environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Matched pension scheme

Annual leave benefits

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Ensure high accuracy of GIS data creation and analysis.
• Advance GIS solutions for the business.
• Prepare maps and reports for stakeholders.

Skills

IT competency

Microsoft Office

SQL databases

ESRI ArcGIS products

GIS application development

Spatial analysis

Job description

We're looking for a GIS Technician to join our Design team based in Birmingham. The team offers professional support and solutions development services to a diverse range of teams and businesses within Kier. Kier Design is a top‑25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction‑focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier’s £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market‑leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy 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 – Monday to Friday, some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: £27,000 to £29,000 depending on experience.

What will you be responsible for?

As a GIS Technician, you'll be working within the Digital Delivery 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, and report generation.

Your day to day will include :

• 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.
• You 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.

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 #constructionrevolution #joinkier.

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