The purpose of this position is to maintain the City’s Geographic Information System ( GIS) database and software.
This position will maintain existing and develop new GIS applications, while ensuring that the systems are efficiently utilized. This position will also make recommendations and assist with the implementation of new systems and add-ons. Work is performed independently within established policies, procedures, and technical guidelines, and is supervised and reviewed by the Planning Director.
This position will begin after 1/1/2026.

• Responsible for the administration, updates, maintenance, and improvements of the ~+y GIS, as well as any associated add-on modules and software packages.
• Ensure that ~ facilities, equipment, and GPS coordinates are accurately recorded, maintained, and updated in the GIS databases, as well as rendered on the GIS visualizations as required.
• Ensure that all employees who utilize the GIS receive the appropriate level of training to efficiently utilize the system
• Work with contractors and vendors as required to implement, update, support, and maintain the GIS.
• Make recommendations for GIS improvements.
• Coordinate and assist with all computer-aided drafting requirements and maintain existing drawings.
• Work to ensure that the proper protocols are instituted and followed to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Assist with the creation and updating of policies, procedures, technical guidelines, and construction standards.
• Attend seminars, conferences, pre-construction meetings, regional user group meetings, and other meetings as required.

• High School diploma, Bachelor's or Vocational degree in GIS and continued technical training in GIS practices, surveying, personal computers, basic accounting, or related fields with three years municipal or utilities GIS experience, or any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Considerable experience with GIS which provides an equivalent combination of education and related work experiences providing the necessary knowledge, abilities, and skills as listed.
• GISP (GIS Professional certification) preferred.
• Extensive experience using the current version of ESRI' s ArcGIS platform.
• Comprehensive knowledge of computers in a Windows desktop and server environment.

Conditions of Employment

• Must pass a background check, driver’s license check, pre-employment physical, and drug screen.
• Valid operator’s license.

Language Skills

• Ability to analyze data and information using established criteria to determine consequences and identify and select alternatives.
• Ability to evaluate data against criteria and standards, compare, count, differentiate, measure, and/or sort data, as well as assemble, copy, and record and transcribe data and information.
• Ability to classify, compute, and tabulate data.
• Ability to explain, demonstrate, and train others within well-established policies, procedures, and standards, including the ability to act in a lead capacity.
• Ability to interpret policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as work orders, purchase orders, staking sheets, maps, outage reports, hazardous materials lists, safety manuals and procedures, computer software operating manuals, construction specifications, time sheets, vehicle logs, accident reports, technical operating manuals, procedures, and guidelines.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, vendor representatives, co-workers, contractors, and other city employees.
  

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate percentages and decimals; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions and algebra.

Judgment and Situational Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgement to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
• Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness, and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control, and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.Physical Requirements
• Ability to operate office equipment and machinery that require simple but continuous adjustments, such as a computer, calculator/adding machine, remittance processing system, photocopier, paper cutter, hand punch, and telephone.
• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet, and limbs in performing skilled movements such as typing.
• Ability to exert very moderate physical effort in sedentary to light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.

Environmental Adaptability

• Ability to work under safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to environmental factors is minimal and poses little to no risk of injury.