Geographic Information Systems Manager

Linde; The Woodlands (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde is seeking an experienced GIS professional to maintain comprehensive GIS databases for pipeline assets and perform regulatory-compliant spatial analyses. You will support risk assessments, routing, and visualization for pipeline projects, with regular data audits and alignment to field verifications.

Your work will also involve developing regulatory reports and dashboards for internal and external stakeholders, while seeking improvements to GIS workflows to boost safety and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Petroleum, or related), Geography, Geospatial Sciences, or closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update GIS databases for pipeline assets to meet regulatory requirements.
• Perform spatial analysis for risk assessments, threat identification, and integrity management.
• Provide GIS-based mapping, routing analysis, and data visualization for pipeline projects.
• Conduct regular audits and updates of geospatial data, aligning with as-built drawings and field verifications.
• Develop and generate regulatory reports, dashboards, maps, and visualizations for stakeholders and regulators.
• Identify opportunities to enhance GIS workflows for regulatory efficiency and pipeline safety.

Skills

GIS platforms

Spatial analysis

Data visualization

Regulatory compliance

Project management

Communication

Data integration tools

Python for ArcGIS

SQL

Education

Bachelors degree in Engineering or Geospatial sciences

Tools

Esri ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro

Pipeline GIS extensions

Python for ArcGIS

SQL databases

Job description

• You will maintain and update comprehensive GIS databases for pipeline assets to meet federal and state regulatory requirements
• Utilize GIS tools to perform spatial analysis for risk assessments, threat identification, and integrity management programs
• Further, provide GIS-based mapping, routing analysis, and data visualization for pipeline replacement projects, new construction notifications, pressure testing, and facility modifications
• Conduct regular audits, validations, and updates of geospatial pipeline data, including alignment with as-built drawings, surveys, and field verifications
• Develop and generate regulatory reports, dashboards, maps, and visualizations for internal stakeholders, auditors, and regulatory agencies
• Also, identify opportunities to enhance GIS workflows for regulatory efficiency and pipeline safety

What makes you great:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Petroleum, or related), Geography, Geospatial Sciences, or a closely related technical field. Professional Engineer (PE) license or GIS Professional (GISP) certification is a plus
• You have five to ten years of progressive experience in pipeline operations, integrity management, or regulatory compliance, with significant hands‑on use of GIS platforms (e.g., Esri ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Pipeline GIS extensions) Experience in midstream or transmission pipeline environments strongly preferred. Advanced proficiency in GIS software for pipeline‑specific applications, including spatial analysis, data modeling, geoprocessing, and cartography
• Strong pipeline engineering and regulatory knowledge, with the ability to apply geospatial data to real‑world compliance and maintenance challenges
• Moreover, have excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and project management skills
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, survey data, and pipeline records
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to present complex geospatial information to technical and non‑technical audiences
• You are experienced with data integration tools, scripting (e.g., Python for ArcGIS), and database management (SQL) is highly desirable

Why you will love working with us:

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high‑quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra‑high‑purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life‑saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state‑of‑the‑art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

Whatever you seek to accomplish, and wherever you want those accomplishments to take you, a career at Linde provides limitless ways to achieve your potential, while making a positive impact in the world. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

At Linde, every day is an opportunity: an opportunity to learn, to grow, to share success, and to contribute to one of the world’s leading industrial gas and engineering companies. Seize the opportunity: take your next step with us and join our team.

In addition to competitive compensation we offer a wide range of medical options to suit everyone’s needs. Other benefits include; educational and professional development, employee discount program, 401K, pension plan, and life insurance, just to name a few.

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