GIS/Siting Specialist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a GIS Specialist, you will support environmental planning and permitting projects with a focus on siting and routing. This will include creating and maintaining constraints databases, providing analysis and GIS support for routing and siting studies, preparing maps and graphics, assisting with state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) siting applications and supporting public outreach efforts. You will assist our GIS team in driving efficiency by improving workflows through data standardization, automation, and tool creation. As such, you must have demonstrated experience with the latest versions of the ESRI product suite.

You will also assist with the growth of new and existing client relationships through delivery of quality work. You will be an important member of the Energy Transition team interacting with ecologists, cultural resource specialists, planners, engineers, senior technical experts, and project/program managers as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required qualifications for the role include:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), engineering, biology, ecology, or similar discipline
• 2+ years of experience as a GIS Specialist in environmental consulting. Associated experience with environmental agencies and departmental roles with commercial entities may be considered equivalent
• Demonstrated experience in ESRI products including ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online
• Strong data management skills including creating, editing, converting GIS data following prescribed data management protocol
• Experience visualizing geographic data for both print and web products
• Experience task managing and assistant project managing multiple projects at once and working in collaboration with scientists, engineers, archaeologists, and other specialists in developing environmental documents for environmental projects

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting applications for state PUC filings in the Midwestern and Eastern US
• Experience developing, managing and maintaining web map services and applications (ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Field Maps)
• Familiarity with workflow automation using Model Builder or Python

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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