Iowa American Water has a job opening for a GIS Technician position. The following is the descriptions and requirements for the position:

Level: GIS Technician

Location: Clinton Office with possibility of few days of remote work

Travel: Between Davenport and Clinton during the training period

Hours: 40 hours/week (full time position)

Employer: Contractor through staffing company.

Reporting to: American Water GIS manager

Primary Role:

• Identify assets and update or create maps and customized geographic information systems (GIS) applications and manipulate data to serve a variety of purposes.
• Read and interpret maps, and as-built drawings to locate, obtain, manipulate and understand digital land data, and manage data entered into a GIS database.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manage as-built plans of completed projects and update system maps.
• Ability to learn and understand the basic water and wastewater network structures as it applies to a network GIS configuration.
• Responsible for reviewing engineering plans, and interpreting aerial imagery including maps that are sometimes inaccurate.
• Must be able to orient oneself within said map using GPS position, perform dead reckoning, compare reality, GIS, GPS, & sketches and route tables to assign the correct assets in the map to GPS positions taking.
• Thoroughly review each block surveyed for items in map that are incorrect or need to be captured. Must be attentive, noticing missing/incorrect assets, premise, etc.
• Responsible for performing basic IT troubleshooting to address typical or unexpected computer communication problems that might affect GPS signal strength, Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, Networks, etc.
• Provide active feedback to GPS project manager. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the technology involved the workflow does not work with the same quality/ consistency everywhere all the time.
• Responsible to adjust workflow / learn new techniques as the process is improved through feedback.
• Ability to perform these tasks while maintaining a culture of elevated safety through risk reduction in challenging work environments including poor weather, proximity to traffic, searching for assets in and under landscaping and other obstructions, etc.

Education: Associates or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge:

• Company standards and procedures.
• Knowledge of water and wastewater construction techniques preferred.
• Familiar with survey GPS equipment, ESRI Collector, RTK networks, and GNSS. Skills: ArcGIS suite of software.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Works well within a team, outstanding listening skills, ability to follow directions, and good customer service skills.
• Ability to learn and understand the basic water and wastewater network structures as it applies to a network GIS configuration.
• Responsible for reviewing engineering plans, and interpreting aerial imagery includingmaps that are sometimes inaccurate.

Experience: Minimum 1 year of GPS/GIS or related field work.

Please email resumes to GIS team manager Milan Cukvas: milan.cukvas@amwater.com