Assistant GIS Consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role… As an Assistant GIS Consultant at WSP, you will play an important role in delivering our UK Digital strategy by helping to drive location intelligence across a wide variety of infrastructure, environmental, transport and planning projects. Joining our growing Geospatial team within the Transformation & Digital Insights service line, you’ll contribute to the integration of digital solutions and the advancement of our geospatial analytics capability. Guided by experienced colleagues, you’ll support multi‑disciplinary project teams by preparing, managing and analysing spatial data, ensuring high‑quality information underpins our project outcomes.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll work with a range of geospatial tools—including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Online and relevant web‑mapping applications—to produce accurate datasets, insightful analysis, engaging web solutions and clear, professional cartography. You’ll help design efficient data management practices, develop repeatable workflows, and build high‑quality outputs such as dashboards, web applications and hardcopy maps. Whether refining geospatial data, supporting project delivery, or contributing to innovative digital practices, your work will directly help our teams meet deadlines, budgets and quality expectations while delivering excellent results for clients. Collaboration, communication and curiosity will be central to your success. You’ll work closely with colleagues and clients at all levels of digital understanding, explaining GIS concepts in an accessible way and ensuring geospatial insights are clearly understood.

As part of a supportive and innovative team, you’ll be encouraged to stay ahead of emerging technologies, develop new skills, and explore ways to continually improve how we deliver geospatial solutions. Your attention to detail and commitment to quality—whether building a simple map or a complex enterprise‑scale workflow—will help strengthen WSP’s geospatial capabilities and contribute to the positive impact we make across the communities we serve.

• Undertake GIS mapping, spatial analysis, data capture and data management, ensuring accuracy, consistency and quality across all deliverables.
• Prepare, manage and analyse geospatial data from multiple sources to support multi‑disciplinary project teams, following best‑practice standards and efficient workflows.
• Produce high‑quality maps, figures, dashboards and web applications using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Online and ESRI Field Apps, ensuring outputs meet project objectives and client expectations.
• Follow geospatial procedures and documentation to ensure robust and repeatable data management processes.
• Collaborate with internal and external project teams, providing clear explanations of GIS methods and helping colleagues understand digital workflows regardless of their GIS experience level.
• Assist in implementing efficient working practices that enhance the team’s delivery capability and provide best‑value services for clients.
• Contribute to quality assurance, ensuring that all spatial data, analysis and outputs meet required standards for accuracy, clarity and technical robustness.
• Support GIS project delivery activities, helping ensure tasks are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality benchmarks.
• Liaise with project teams and occasional external stakeholders to gather data requirements, share outputs and maintain effective lines of communication.
• Engage in continuous professional development, staying updated with emerging GIS technologies, tools and techniques relevant to WSP’s digital strategy.

• Core principles of GIS and GI data management and an ability to apply them especially with regards to Enterprise Geodatabases ESRI ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online and ESRI Field Apps.
• Knowledge of the integration of the platforms.
• Configuration of existing web applications such as Dashboards, Web Applications or Survey123.
• Understanding of relational databases and geodatabase design and the ability to deploy them.
• Knowledge of UK GIS datasets both proprietary and open source.
• Customer focussed approach to quality and service.
• Self-motivated and to show initiative.
• Proactive approach to developing new skills and keeping up to date with technology.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team. Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close‑knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world. With us, you can. Apply today.

About Us: We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long‑lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

• Work-life balance: At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community. Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity & Belonging: We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote our culture of inclusivity.
• Health & Wellbeing: We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme. Our Virtual GP service gives you access to a GP at a time and place that suits you – giving you peace of mind and quick access to medical advice when you need it most. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.
• Flex Your Time: To enhance work‑life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day. We also provide part‑time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
• Your Development: We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.