Senior Gis Consultant

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
You will need to establish strong relationships with internal Project Managers and technical leads, with the aim to maximise the benefit that geospatial technology can bring to project delivery. Identification and development of internal & external geospatial business opportunities will also be expected.

**The role**:

- Lead on the GIS element of major projects in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Provide consultancy to internal and external clients to understand their needs and provide solutions
- Working to programme and budget whilst maintaining quality of delivery
- Identify areas for business development
- Support GIS Consultants and Graduates on project delivery
- Development and implementation of GIS standards and best practice
- Ensure quality assurance on own and junior members deliverables
- Manage the production of high quality outputs
- Design and manage geodatabases
- Carry out geoprocessing/analysis tasks and manage the same carried out by junior members of the team
- Manage webGIS (AGOL/ArcGIS Enterprise/apps) for major projects
- You will provide critical GIS Leadership to deliver projects on time and budget.
- You should be innovative and creative with strong interpersonal communication skills and be comfortable working independently as well as in an interdisciplinary multi-cultural team.

**Qualifications**:

- Proven GIS knowledge and experience of managing GIS projects in a commercial environment
- Ability to liaise with internal and external clients to promote GIS and deliver high quality GIS input into their projects
- Highly competent in the use of ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
- Exposure to developing and using Esri mobile apps such as Survey123 and Field Maps
- An excellent understanding of spatial data structures and fundamental concepts of GIS
- Ability to complete work with GIS best practice and corporate standards in mind
- Customer focused, motivated, with a keen eye for detail
- Proficient in the delivery of allocated project tasks, to quality, time and budget requirements
- Provide dynamic and innovative solutions
- Prior experience in the use of ModelBuilder, ArcPy and geoprocessing tools to automate tasks
- Person specification (Behavioural Attributes)
- Safeguard - To operate ethically and with integrity, while prioritising safety and security in all that you do
- Be decisive - Know how to prioritise workloads, advocate focus and accountability
- Be impactful - Use clear and frequent communications, drive execution and results.
- Be client-focused - Be collaborative, innovative and strategic.
- Be the role model - Lead by example, demand excellence, maintain safety and integrity as top priorities.
- Experience of working with environment and planning related datasets
- Experience working with and controlling a large number of evolving datasets

Preferred Qualifications:

- A degree qualification in GIS or a related field where GIS skills have been developed (a relevant MSc would be desirable but not essential).

Additional Information

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ou