We are looking for a talented GIS Administrator to join our team. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a growing firm with multiple Best Places to Work awards and great career opportunities.
In this position, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing enterprise GIS systems, ensuring seamless functionality, scalability, and security across the organization. By maintaining GIS servers, databases, and software, this role will enable our teams to efficiently collect, store, analyze, and visualize spatial data, supporting informed decision-making for engineering and environmental projects.
Lochmueller Group is a growing engineering consulting firm with an emphasis on infrastructure. We provide multi-disciplined services for a variety of public agencies and private entities, including transportation design; water resources design; environmental analysis & permitting; construction engineering & inspection; traffic engineering & transportation planning; surveying; and land acquisition & appraisal.
For over 40 years, Lochmueller Group has helped communities reinvent their future through thoughtful, actionable planning and design. Our dedication to building a team that demonstrates our corporate values (CARDIA) is what sets us apart:
CARDIA: Creativity; Accountability; Respect; Dedication; Integrity; Achievement
Lochmueller Group provides an excellent workplace culture established by our people who share these values. We are a 100% employee-owned company, and our people are invested in the success and continued development of each other and the firm. This is a great place to build a career and grow with a company that is dedicated to quality and service.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Planning, designing, and maintaining enterprise GIS systems, both on-premises and cloud-based, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
- Managing GIS related servers, databases, software applications, and ensuring system performance and minimal downtime.
- Working with IT team to install, configure, and upgrade GIS related software.
- Developing and implementing security management and privacy requirements for GIS services.
- Overseeing GIS related data storage, organization, retrieval, and ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Assisting users with GIS related inquiries, troubleshooting issues, and documenting system configurations and procedures.
- Customizing GIS solutions, delivering presentations, and providing training on GIS software and models.
- Working with internal and external teams to integrate GIS data with other systems and applications.
- Managing GIS and data tasks for various projects, ensuring compliance with standards.
- Creating custom GIS tools to automate workflows and optimize data processing.
- Verifying and reviewing GIS system related documents and reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Working with vendors and IT teams to support and troubleshoot GIS systems.
- Staying abreast of GIS industry trends and best practices and recommending system improvements.
- May perform other duties associated with this role.
Qualifications for this role:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, or a related field is a plus.
- Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience with proficiency in administering GIS systems.
- Proven experience as a GIS System Administrator or similar role.
- Proficiency in Esri GIS software, such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, and ArcGIS Online.
- Strong knowledge of GIS databases and data management techniques.
- Experience with system administration tasks, including administering Esri accounts, license management, server management, network configuration, and security protocols.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with team members.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Valid driver’s license.
What we offer:
- Health & Wellness (medical, dental, vision, disability, and basic life insurance w/ option for additional voluntary life insurance)
- Work/Life Balance (vacation, holidays, sick leave, maternity/paternity leave, flexible scheduling & telecommuting opportunities)
- Wealth-Building (401k w/ company match, student loan repayment benefit, ESOP, competitive compensation package)
- Professional Benefits (professional membership dues, career & educational development)
Lochmueller Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Lochgroup fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. Some of the content in this job post may have been auto-generated using advanced AI.
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Lochmueller Group is an employee-owned, full-service survey, planning, engineering and environmental firm serving clients throughout the U.S. and abroad. While maintaining its strong focus on planning, today the firm addresses a wide variety of needs from early data collection and modeling through public involvement, design, and construction oversight. This comprehensive range of services allows Lochmueller to better understand and appreciate the client’s ultimate goals and how to achieve them. Planners and designers have access to a wide variety of expertise in-house readily available to provide insights on specific planning and design considerations, permitting, costs, and a host of other subjects.
