What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Specialist position at AECOM?
Company Description
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Job Description
AECOM is actively seeking a GIS Specialist for immediate full-time employment in the Denver, Austin, Chicago, or Cincinnati offices.
This position is expected to begin in August 2023.
Job Overview:
The appropriately qualified applicant will be able to demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of GIS principles with a detail-oriented approach to cartographic design and spatial analysis. The successful candidate will need to thrive in a fast-paced and challenging work environment with a chance to contribute to projects that will impact state and local projects in Texas and beyond.
Job responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:
- Ability to work independently and with other GIS staff across multiple offices to support a wide range of projects.
- Work closely with project teams and clients to understand project needs and deliver GIS solutions of moderate to significant scope and complexity
- Analyzes technical problems and devises new approaches and alternative solutions
- Processes and analyzes raster and vector geospatial data in support of clients and staff including engineers, biologists, hydrologists, and geologists
- Performs geospatial analyzes
- Reviews data for currency, accuracy, quality, or completeness of documentation and metadata
- Ensures that information management quality assurance procedures comply with AECOM standards and procedures
- Creates, collects, converts, analyses, and integrates geospatial and non-spatial datasets in accordance with industry standards
- Creates, edits, and maintains geospatial databases and metadata on multiple simultaneous projects
- Produces a variety of mapping products for presentations, reports, and other documents
- Develop web maps (AGOL, ArcGIS Portal) and Esri field solutions (ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey123) for project staff to collect and review project data
- Support field work by developing data collection solutions for projects and going into the office as needed to prepare GPS equipment.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience in a similar GIS multidisciplinary project support role
- Adaptable team member, happy to work autonomously in dynamic work environments
- Excellent understanding of the ESRI suite of products
- Technical knowledge of geographic concepts, including coordinate systems, data collection methods, spatial data management, analysis, data visualization
- Ability to provide innovative solutions to problems applying sound spatial analysis and data management practices
- Experience using ArcGIS Desktop
Additional Information
- Relocation is not available for this position.
- Sponsorship is available for this position.
- Offered rate of compensation (Colorado locations only) will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position is $39,000 - $54,000.
- Benefits Language For CO reqs only: AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D and disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of abs
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.
Join us and let's get started.
ReqID: J10081437
Business Line: Environment
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: West
Career Area: Digital & Engineering Technology
Work Location Model: Hybrid
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Job Description
AECOM is actively seeking a GIS Specialist for immediate full-time employment in the Denver, Austin, Chicago, or Cincinnati offices.
This position is expected to begin in August 2023.
Job Overview:
The appropriately qualified applicant will be able to demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of GIS principles with a detail-oriented approach to cartographic design and spatial analysis. The successful candidate will need to thrive in a fast-paced and challenging work environment with a chance to contribute to projects that will impact state and local projects in Texas and beyond.
Job responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:
- Ability to work independently and with other GIS staff across multiple offices to support a wide range of projects.
- Work closely with project teams and clients to understand project needs and deliver GIS solutions of moderate to significant scope and complexity
- Analyzes technical problems and devises new approaches and alternative solutions
- Processes and analyzes raster and vector geospatial data in support of clients and staff including engineers, biologists, hydrologists, and geologists
- Performs geospatial analyzes
- Reviews data for currency, accuracy, quality, or completeness of documentation and metadata
- Ensures that information management quality assurance procedures comply with AECOM standards and procedures
- Creates, collects, converts, analyses, and integrates geospatial and non-spatial datasets in accordance with industry standards
- Creates, edits, and maintains geospatial databases and metadata on multiple simultaneous projects
- Produces a variety of mapping products for presentations, reports, and other documents
- Develop web maps (AGOL, ArcGIS Portal) and Esri field solutions (ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey123) for project staff to collect and review project data
- Support field work by developing data collection solutions for projects and going into the office as needed to prepare GPS equipment.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience in a similar GIS multidisciplinary project support role
- Adaptable team member, happy to work autonomously in dynamic work environments
- Excellent understanding of the ESRI suite of products
- Technical knowledge of geographic concepts, including coordinate systems, data collection methods, spatial data management, analysis, data visualization
- Ability to provide innovative solutions to problems applying sound spatial analysis and data management practices
- Experience using ArcGIS Desktop
Additional Information
- Relocation is not available for this position.
- Sponsorship is available for this position.
- Offered rate of compensation (Colorado locations only) will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position is $39,000 - $54,000.
- Benefits Language For CO reqs only: AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D and disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of abs
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.
Join us and let's get started.
ReqID: J10081437
Business Line: Environment
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: West
Career Area: Digital & Engineering Technology
Work Location Model: Hybrid
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