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GIS Technical Lead

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Atkins Geomatics & Communications covers a range of services from data acquisition, spatial analysis, information and data management, to systems design and integration. Our drive is to deliver innovative, quality solutions to our clients that sit well within the culture and setting of the user environment and fully meets the user requirements. Our success lies in our integration across the Atkins businesses, working in partnership with the engineering, environmental and design disciplines to ensure well-grounded services, with a deep understanding of both the built and natural environment.
 
The role of GIS Technical Lead is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for the right person to gain experience managing a team of GIS analysts and project managing GIS analysis projects across disciplines. Whether it is basic constraints mapping for our environment teams, maintaining a webGIS, managing a large scale data capture project or working on High Speed 2. The GIS Technical Lead role is varied with requirements changing month by month.
 
The GIS Analysis team is young and dynamic. This role will suit a manager with experience of working in an international company who can listen and channel the ideas and inputs of the team making the individuals feel valued.


Essential
  • Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
  • Either a degree qualification in GIS or a related field and more than ten years work experience, or 12 years experience using GIS software
  • Minimum of five years experience of project managing successful GIS projects
  • Have appreciation of the issues of, and solutions to, managing remote clients
  • Proven experience of delivering to deadlines within pressurised environments
  • Ability to effectively sell the benefits of GIS to potential clients and generate business leads
  • Prepared to work overseas, on secondment on need basis
  • Thorough experience using ArcGIS 10x and its extensions
  • Experience of AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • Excellent presentation skills and Enthusiastic about the benefits GIS can provide
  • Proactively engages with clients and Demonstrable  leadership experience
  • Collaborative working
 
Desirable
  • Experience of working in a multi-national consultancy
  • Experience with working and controlling a large number of evolving datasets
  • Good knowledge of Autodesk Studio, Microsoft Access and Excel
 
Managerial Role ( Project &/People)
  • Display strong team management skill
  • Conversant with the commercial aspects of the project / program management
  • Proven management skills having had responsibility for completion of project to time and cost
  • Good knowledge of , and use of, Atkins capabilities outside of Business units
  • Good leadership qualities
  • To work closely with the GIS Manager to implement the GIS Analysis Strategy and to help ensure its success.
  • Be responsible for team’s productivity, holding team meetings to assess current and future workload
  • Proactive business development in their discipline areas and across Atkins Business sectors
  • Ensure that project management of GIS or IM work within the team is carried out effectively.
  • Perform day to day GIS tasks of any level (spatial analysis, data management, digitisation, map creation, etc) for any client of the GIS Analysis Team
  • Carry out the teams annual appraisals
  • Responsible for learning and development requirements of the team
  • Ensure that the wider capabilities of the Communications team are projected to your clients where appropriate.
  • Ensure that your team is motivated and maintain communication to enable two way feedback on any issues to be given and received.
  • Act as line manager for members of your team.
  • Enable members of your team to achieve their career aspirations.
 
Functional relations
  • Clients
  • Program Managers
  • Project Directors
  • Project Managers
  • Heads of Department
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