Job Abstract

AECOM’s Water Business Line is actively seeking highly motivated GIS Specialist for a full-time opportunity, for either the Denver, CO or Cleveland, OH metropolitan areas. This is for a long-term and large-scale construction-based program.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for those who enjoy working in a Team environment and independently applying their skills to support a dynamic and fast-paced program as to maintain its progress and overall status. The role requires this person to be detail-oriented, possess solid technical computer and writing skills, be attentive to detail, able to communicate and represent information to Team members.   

This position requires a forward thinker, an ambitious attitude, and a willingness to support requests by the Program Team.  The candidate will need to be adaptable to change as additional and/or different responsibilities may be assigned.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

GIS Mapping and Applications

• Develop maps and map products (map books, visual aids, slides) utilizing GIS data and follow template map designs.
• Produce a variety of mapping products for presentations, reports, and other documents.
• Support web map (AGOL, ArcGIS Portal) datasets, web maps, applications and Esri field solutions (ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey123).
• Using ESRI tools, perform data analysis from various sources, including open data sources.
• Perform GIS data collection with field application on mobile devices paired to GPS as needed.
• Spatial Geodatabase entry and data manipulation, including setup of field schema, domains, relationship classes, topology rules, or networks.
• Support data acquisition in the field using ESRI platform for field data collection.
• Develop data collection solutions for projects and going into the office as needed to prepare GPS equipment.

Data Analysis and Processing

• Analyze technical problems and devise innovative approaches and alternative solutions to moderately complex issues.
• Process and analyze raster and vector geospatial data in support of client’s deliverables.
• Create, edit, and maintain geospatial databases and metadata on multiple simultaneous projects.
• Create, collect, convert, analyze, and integrate geospatial and non-spatial datasets in accordance with industry standards.
• Input diverse data types into GIS databases. (longitude and latitude coordinates, aerial imagery, tabular data, and digitizing maps)

Teamwork Environment

• Collaborate with project teams and clients to understand project needs and deliver GIS solutions of moderate to significant scope and complexity.
• Work independently, in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment with other planners, engineers, and GIS staff across multiple offices to support the Program.
• Adaptable team member, able to work autonomously in dynamic work environments.

Other Potential Duties

• Review data for acceptance, accuracy, quality, or completeness of documentation and metadata.
• Leverage Microsoft Excel for data manipulation, visualization, and reporting to clean and preprocess data before importing it into GIS databases or reporting.
• Perform data conversion from multiple formats (CAD, PDF, TIFF, Excel) into GIS data.