GIS Technician - G118 - Sewer Maintenance

This position is responsible for technical duties in the collection of geographic data and in the production of geographic maps and reports.

• Creates, designs, and edits GIS map documents using ESRI ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro Software.
• Creates maps for other divisions. Collects and edits field data using ArcCollector and ArcGIS Online.
• Compiles Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for data organization.
• Fulfills large print requests using a Canon plotter printer.
• Works with current satellite imagery to fulfill interdepartmental map requests.
• Uses a city-wide Enterprise Geodatabase to compile map documents using various feature datasets and feature classes.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of Geography, Cartography, GIS, Aerial Photography, and Graphic Design practices.
• Knowledge of GIS technology and its applications.
• Knowledge of the hardware and software used in GIS applications.
• Skill in customer service.
• Skill in problem-solving and decision making.
• Skill in operating standard office equipment including work related computer applications.
• Skill in the analysis of data and in the creation of related reports.
• Skill in oral and written communication.

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table or while intermittently sitting, standing, or stooping. The employee occasionally lifts light objects and must distinguish between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 - close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed outdoors and occasionally in cold or inclement weather.