Gis Consultant

**About the role**:
We are seeking a GIS Consultant to join our friendly, experienced GIS & Visualisation team. This role will provide you with an excellent opportunity to develop and enhance your GIS skills in a consultancy environment.

In this role, you will provide GIS input into projects for all of LUC’s service areas, including planning, ecology and landscape planning and management projects. Your work will be varied, and will include map production, digitising, geographic data analysis, managing field data collection and reporting.

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to a diverse range of projects including ecology mapping, Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment, Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment and Open Space and Green Infrastructure audits. You will work as part of an innovative and fun team comprising GIS, graphic design, web development and 3D visualisation experts.

The role includes the opportunity to share and participate actively in the management and ownership of the business through the Employee Ownership Trust, which places full ownership of the company with the employees.

A full time role would be based on 37.5 hours Monday to Friday. However, LUC has a strong track record in flexible working and we have been recognised for our flexible working culture, so we are happy to discuss a range of flexible working options for this role including some remote working and /or part time hours (minimum 30 hours per week) if desired.

Salary range: £25,000 - £31,000 FTE (Depending on experience).

This role could be based in Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh or Glasgow. We work in a hybrid model and the role includes an expectation that successful applicants will be in the office a minimum of two days per week.

**About you**:
We are seeking organised and efficient people with good communication, who are keen to utilise their skills, knowledge and experience to deliver better places for nature, people and places.

This role is likely to have a strong focus on renewable energy projects, including wind farms, solar farm, mixed use technologies, and overhead lines, so an interest in this area would be beneficial.

**Experience and qualifications**
- **Essential**_
- GIS or related degree, or a blend of knowledge and qualifications reflecting a similar level of expertise.
- Practical experience in a consultancy or other non-academic context in data processing and analysis using GIS and Excel.
- Experience of ESRI software products, particularly ArcPro and AGOL.
- A proactive, organised and effective approach to your work and an appetite for diverse projects.
- The ability to work efficiently and respond quickly to meet deadlines, whilst working on a number of projects simultaneously.
- Good knowledge of using UK environmental and Ordnance Survey datasets.

**Desirable**
- Experience with ArcGIS extensions, including Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst.
- Knowledge of other GIS or CAD software.
- Knowledge of graphics packages (Photoshop, InDesign, etc).
- PostgreSQL database/Geoserver experience.
- Python scripting, including ArcPy.
- Experience of manipulating Remote Sensing data.
- Experience of developing open source web solutions.
- Experience / interest in reporting on your findings.

**About LUC**:
LUC is a planning, impact assessment, landscape design, ecology and geospatial consultancy, working primarily across the UK but also internationally.

With a track record spanning almost 60 years and a team of more than 250 skilled professionals, we bring great depth of knowledge and experience to our work across both the private and public sectors.

We became a fully employee-owned business in January 2020, sharing profits on an equal basis and involving everyone in key decisions. This helps secure our continued independence as well as aligning our governance structure with our culture and values.

Our people are united by a determination to achieve sustainable development on behalf of our clients. With the current climate emergency in mind, we ensure that all our work promotes climate change mitigation and resilience.

We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovative thinking, successfully resolving even the most complex of issues. We care about the legacy we leave and hope to make a real difference through the work we do.

Whether we’re advising a commercial developer, Government agency, local authority, utility company or voluntary organisation, we take a collaborative approach. We also put our client and our ‘invisible client’, the environment, at the heart of the process.

Our approach has delivered a healthy financial position, high client and employee satisfaction and numerous industry and employer awards.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£31,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In perso