GIS Technician Exeter, England
Job description
We’re looking for a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Technician to join our Highways Applied Digital Services team based in Birmingham or Exeter to provide professional support and solution development services to GIS projects across the business. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and even more.
Location: Birmingham or Exeter
Contract: Permanent – flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.
Salary: £competitive
Responsibilities
As a GIS Technician, you’ll provide GIS services such as data analysis, processing, and display of outcomes in meaningful and understandable ways, such as on maps, graphs, charts and spreadsheets. Undertake Project work as directed by the GIS Manager and GIS Team Leader.
Your day to day will include:
- Assist in the GIS and data management for the projects across the wider Kier business, ranging from Infrastructure to Highways
- Assist in the advancement of GIS solutions for projects worked on by the GIS Consultancy Team
- Provide a dedicated GIS resource across projects worked on by the GIS Consultancy team
- Actively promote Health and Safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees and ensuring awareness of and compliance with general Health and Safety responsibilities as set out in the Health and Safety Management System
Who are we looking for?
This role of GIS Technician is great for you if have:
- Experience using a range of the ESRI ArcGIS Products across desktop, server/web and mobile devices
- High level of IT competency, experience with all Microsoft Office packages
- Able to prepare maps, reports, and other relevant information to stakeholders
- Extremely high attention to detail with the ability to work to tight deadlines
We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits at Kier
We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- fantastic, matched pension scheme
- life assurance
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
- Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits
Who is Kier?
We’re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 3 March 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
