Job Title: GIS Technician
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Full Time, 37.5 hours.
Bruton Knowles LLP is an independently owned Chartered Surveying practice who provide a comprehensive range of surveying and property services. Our geographic reach covers the whole of England and Wales with clients in utilities and infrastructure, valuation, commercial, planning and development, and rural.
We’ve taken on new, innovative ways of working to deliver our services and we’ve created a new strategy to target key areas of growth for the business, resulting in the launch our new Utilities and Infrastructure team, our new National Valuation Team and further development for our Rural team whilst bolstering our activity in commercial, planning and development.
The Position:
We are looking to appoint a GIS Technician to assist in the delivery of GIS services to our Utilities and Infrastructure Team based out of our Gloucester office with hybrid / remote working.
Main Responsibilities, Tasks and Key Duties:
- Data capture, management, analysis and validation
- Data conversion and integration
- Map production for Land Referencing products
- Development and implementation of methodologies for creation and use of spatial data
- Digitising, editing, coding, and annotating line, point and polygon data
- Creation of Land Registry compliant Easement, Consent and Wayleave drawings
- Creation of landowner plans for attachment to referencing forms
- Meeting with internal clients to determine GIS requirements
The Candidate:
- A degree qualification in GIS or a related field. MSc would be desirable but not essential.
- The ideal candidate will have two or more years commercial experience in a similar role and be able to provide demonstratable experience of GIS, technical consultancy and the delivery of tasks to time, accuracy, quality whilst meeting cost objectives.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- A high level of competence using ESRI, ArcGIS product suit, including its extensions
- A sound understanding of spatial data structures and fundamental concepts of GIS
- Spatial database design and management, preferably with ESRI geodatabases
- Ability to liaise with internal and external clients to deliver high quality GIS output for projects
- Able to work on their own and with a wider project team based in multiple locations
- Experience of using Ordnance Survey, Land Registry and other data products
- Proficient in the delivery of allocated project tasks, to quality, time and budget requirements;
- Have good problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
- Attention to detail
- Be adaptable and flexible
- A desire to innovate, looking for new ways of doing things effectively
- Excellent time management
- Ability to deal with pressure
- Ability to work independently as well as in an interdisciplinary team;
- Clean and full driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with environment, planning and engineering related datasets
- Experience with working and controlling a large number of evolving datasets
- Experience in SQL server
- Experience of Web GIS applications using ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS online
- Experience of ESRI Model Builder, Python and FME
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
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