What are the responsibilities and job description for the Specialist, GIS Support position at CenterPoint Energy?
Specialist, GIS Support-SIG00620
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As the GIS Suupport Specialist II, you will maintain key graphical and non-graphical data and information for the engineering, operation, and maintenance business processes. The GIS Support Specialist manages asset data in the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system and Geographical Information System (GIS) resulting from capital projects, maintenance orders, and service orders impacting Energy Delivery assets.
Specifically, you’ll have the opportunity to:
As the GIS Suupport Specialist II, you will maintain key graphical and non-graphical data and information for the engineering, operation, and maintenance business processes. The GIS Support Specialist manages asset data in the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system and Geographical Information System (GIS) resulting from capital projects, maintenance orders, and service orders impacting Energy Delivery assets.
Specifically, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Under general supervision, manage assignments and projects to completion.
- Develop industry specific skills and knowledge.
- Develop understanding company engineering and construction standards.
- Develop relationships with internal/external customers and contractors.
- Meet customer’s needs and expectations in a timely manner.
- Perform quality assurance checks of assets being inserted into or modified in GIS and EAM.
- Understand preventive maintenance (PM) process and job plans to the applicable assets.
- Coordinate and facilitate GIS land base updates.
- Ensure the GIS geospatial system is updated for assigned area.
- Complete appropriate tasks as assigned in response to internal and external customer demands, including map development, report generation, and data querying.
- Provide basic GIS and EAM support to Field Operations and Engineering through system troubleshooting and management support in a technical role as required.
- Review and update franchise territory requests.
- Provide recommendations for application corrections, adaptations, and enhancements.
- Support updates and maintenance of maps and records, occasionally visit field locations, and coordinate all work with internal and external customers.
- Manage assigned projects through completion to achieve budgetary, schedule, and business objectives. Report progress throughout the life of the assignment/project.
- Identify, secure, and manage resources (internal or external) required to complete assignments/ projects.
- Manage multiple assignments and priorities concurrently.
- Functional/Technical Competency Requirements: Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project).
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires a bachelor's degree from an accredited college. or an associates degree in Engineering, GIS Certifite, or similar technical field. A high school diploma with equivalent experience may be subsituted.
- Requires 0 - 2 years of utility industry experience.
Job Location: Evansville, IN
This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
Job Info. Technology
Primary LocationUS-IN-Evansville-NP Wagner Complex
Organization SIG GAS ENGINEERING&DESGN (50245246)
Job Posting Sep 26, 2022
Posting End Date Oct 3, 2022
Work Schedule Normal Business Hours
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