What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Intern position at Quiddity?
Overview
As a part of the Quiddity internship program, your work will make a difference. As part of our team, you will learn leadership skills from experienced GIS Analysts who will provide both mentorship and guidance. You will be challenged daily and have the opportunity to demonstrate your potential and apply your skills to real-world design work.
Responsibilities
Quiddity is an award-winning, full-service civil engineering, planning, surveying, and consulting firm. With more than 550 employees in 11 offices across Texas, our organization has 11 service groups that support nearly 20 public and private markets. Remaining true to our mission has helped us be consistently voted a Best Place to Work by local and regional publications and an Engineering News-Record Top 500 National Firm.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under applicable law.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Quiddity does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Quiddity. Without a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Quiddity will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. Suppose a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement. In that case, Quiddity explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
As a part of the Quiddity internship program, your work will make a difference. As part of our team, you will learn leadership skills from experienced GIS Analysts who will provide both mentorship and guidance. You will be challenged daily and have the opportunity to demonstrate your potential and apply your skills to real-world design work.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, collect, organize, and input data to maintain and enhance the company’s GIS.
- Assist with interpreting as-built drawings, construction plans, engineering plans, recorded maps, deeds, legal descriptions, imagery and related source documents and incorporate them into GIS using various methods.
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of multiple GIS layers including parcels, streets, right-of-way, floodplain, other development layers, and water and sewer system layers.
- Follow quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) processes, and perform routine data management tasks, such as data validation and correction, queries and editing in GIS to ensure GIS data accuracy, integrity, and completeness.
- Assist with GIS and data analysis, prepare and execute queries, produce maps, spreadsheets, graphs, and other analytical products.
- Currently enrolled in a GIS, Geography, Computer Science, Planning, or Engineering Program or a closely related field
- Working knowledge of the ESRI suite of GIS software, specifically Arc Map and ArcGIS Pro.
- The candidate must have experience managing geodatabases and other spatial data through ESRI based tools.
- Working experience in map production and cartographic tools is a plus.
Quiddity is an award-winning, full-service civil engineering, planning, surveying, and consulting firm. With more than 550 employees in 11 offices across Texas, our organization has 11 service groups that support nearly 20 public and private markets. Remaining true to our mission has helped us be consistently voted a Best Place to Work by local and regional publications and an Engineering News-Record Top 500 National Firm.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under applicable law.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Quiddity does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Quiddity. Without a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Quiddity will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. Suppose a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement. In that case, Quiddity explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
