Overview of the role
Due to strong growth, Mott MacDonald’s ENC Digital Delivery team has an opportunity for an enthusiastic, resourceful, collaborative and innovative GIS Consultant. You will be joining a diverse team of GIS and digital consultants who are passionate about guiding our clients in the delivery of major infrastructure projects in the UK.
This role will suit a dynamic, proactive individual who wants to work in a growth area of our business in close collaboration with our Land Advisory team and help support the delivery of GIS tools and services in a fast moving, client-focused commercial environment.
Key responsibilities and duties
- Lead, manage and deliver GIS services on complex projects
- Review and ensure technical excellence and standards
- Design, develop and implement digital solutions based on automation, geospatial data analytics, data science, data management and data integration to extract insights from data and improve decision making
- Work in multi-disciplinary teams to gather and evaluate requirements to deliver integrated digital solutions and outcome-based innovations
- Identify and support opportunities for improving workflows for achieving efficiencies and innovative solutions
- Identify existing and new data sources to best inform project teams
- Lead or support in business development activities, providing technical input and financial components to bids and identifying internal and external business opportunities
- Manage mobile data collection packages for field workers
- Work closely with GIS team members in ongoing development and implementation of standards and tools for day-to-day GIS processes and data management
- Undertake mentoring responsibilities
- Participate in knowledge sharing and professional excellence activities in our Global GIS community of over 700 GIS specialists and users
Candidate specification
Essential
- Undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in GIS, computer science, environmental management, geography or a related discipline
- Highly competent GIS Consultant with strong UK experience and client-orientated approach
- Experienced in leading geospatial project delivery, budgeting, task and resource planning and prioritisation
- Extensive experience working with a wide range of the ESRI’s ArcGIS products, especially ArcGIS Online/Portal for ArcGIS, and ArcGIS Pro
- Proactive communication, collaboration and people skills to enable effective problem solving, ensuring delivery and report writing
- A deep knowledge of spatial analysis workflows and management of spatial data
- A strong interest in keeping up with latest technologies and how to apply these to real business problems to provide innovative solutions
- An aptitude for problem solving using scripting and automation (e.g. SQL, Python, ESRI Arcade, R, JavaScript) and/or FME
- Some ability with web GIS development (HTML or JavaScript & CSS, in conjunction with ArcGIS API)
Desirable
- Experience of database administration (MS SQL Server, or PostgreSQL)
- Have, or be working towards, a professional body qualification, preferably with the Royal Geographical Society (e.g. Chartered Geographer)
- Confident in working with design and engineering data
- Experience in mentoring junior colleagues
- Some exposure to use of scripting and automation in the Office 365 suite (MS Power Automate, Excel VBA, Power Query, Access VBA; Power BI and SharePoint)
Benefits
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too
Location and contact
Location/s: Manchester, London, Liverpool, Leeds; UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan
