GIS (Geography Information System) Assets Officer
Location: BT3, Greater Belfast.
Salary: £24500
Hours: 8.30am and 5.00pm Monday to Thursday and between 8.30am and 4.30pm on Fridays. (37 hours per week).
Duration: Permanent
On behalf of our client, an award winning utilities company, we are seeking a GIS (geographical information systems) Asset Officer.
Reporting to the Engineering Support Supervisor, the Asset Officer will assist in updating, maintaining, and developing the company’s Geography Information System (GIS).
You will need:
- Full valid EU/UK driving licence
- Minimal 4 GCSE including English and Maths Grade C and above. Or equivalent.
- Geography Information System experience. Or 1 -Year experience working within an engineering background.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Strong IT skills, including the use of Microsoft packages
Duties include:
- Update and maintain ArcGIS to ensure the organisation complies with current Northern Ireland Street works legislation and HSG47.
- Ensure GIS updates are performed in a timely manner and to the required standard so as to meet internal standards.
- Perform quality audits on as-built data supplied by Operations to ensure required standards are met.
- Perform data analysis and data queries within GIS.
- To arrange site audits to monitor the accuracy of as-laid data supplied by our alliance contractor as stipulated in our alliance contract, recording data from site excavations in relation to the surrounding built environment.
- Investigate historical queries in relation to the potential alteration of existing network and if necessary, carry out associated post excavation site visit to record data in relation to surrounding built environment.
- To overview weekly extracts from relevant GIS databases and transfer this data onto relevant engineering laptops.
- Update existing LPS geography through the manipulation of drawings using GIS by scanning, rectifying and digitising.
- Complete a quarterly as-laid data extract as part of data sharing agreement with other NI based utilities and subsequent quarterly translation and importing of utility data received from other parties for use on GIS
- Assist in providing cover for the Plant Protection Officer as and when required, including driving the 7bar network and liaising with contractors via telephone and visiting site to attend excavations.
- Provide cover for the contractor, this will include working in the vicinity of open excavations recording the precise location of as-laid network in relation to the surrounding built environment at time of construction.
- Updating access databases and excel spreadsheets with relevant information as and when required.
- Printing maps for internal departments as and when required.
- General filing duties.
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