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GIS Analyst
GIS Analyst
Technical GIS Analyst role at Canacre, focusing on leadership in Environment and Land services, with emphasis on industry knowledge, expertise, and collaborative relationships.
About the role
- Maintain and update all GIS layers and attribute data within Irth and the ArcGIS Enterprise, ensuring compliance with internal data standards and operational requirements.
- Perform QA/QC on spatial and tabular data before and after sync events between Irth and ArcGIS.
- Monitor data workflows, identify errors, and implement corrective actions to ensure Irth remains the authoritative operational dataset.
- Maintain alignment between Irth GIS layers and ArcGIS Enterprise/ArcGIS Online datasets.
- Reconcile discrepancies between systems, including geometry mismatches, attribute conflicts, and schema variations.
- Support periodic or scheduled synchronization processes, ensuring that all data transfers meet accuracy and completeness standards.
- Develop, revise, and maintain GIS datasets, maps, sketches, and technical drawings.
- Capture, edit, and integrate spatial data including land parcels, environmental layers, easements, field locations, and operational assets.
- Interpret field notes, marked drawings, digital sketches, and communications to update GIS layers.
- Create high‑quality web maps, diagrams, and data visualizations in support of operations, engineering, planning, and land management functions.
- Support management with land, asset, and resource analysis using GIS tools and spatial techniques.
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on GIS functions within Irth and related systems.
- Train other internal users on data standards, GIS tools, and workflows.
- Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 3–7 years of professional GIS experience, preferably in utilities, energy, telecommunications, or land management.
- Strong proficiency in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, ArcGIS Online, and spatial data management workflows.
- Experience working with or supporting work management systems such as Irth (preferred) or similar platforms.
- Knowledge of cartography, spatial analysis techniques, GPS workflows, and data integration practices.
- Ability to interpret field notes, survey documents, parcel descriptions, and engineering sketches.
- Familiarity with Municipal Parcel boundary definitions and landowner information.
Originally posted on Himalayas