GIS Technician; Union AFSCME

• Date Posted: 3/12/2026
• Location:
  
  Service Center
• Date Available:
  
  TBD

Salary: $44.869 - $57.484/hourly*

* Starting salary is dependent upon qualifications, but in most cases is no higher than the midpoint for range.

This is a professional position requiring performance of a variety of technical assignments including: GIS editing, map requests, database management, construction-related field testing, permitting, and general IT support for the water production bureau.

• Edit GIS data to reflect lead service line replacement projects from annual projects, homeowner improvements, and city repairs.
• Edit water and sewer GIS data to reflect recent projects, incorporating as-built data.
• Edit water and sewer GIS data to reflect private developments, field corrections, and data cleanup.
• Prepare maps and data for internal projects, external contract developments, reporting, and internal/external data requests.
• Monitor contractor performance for compliance by inspecting construction, observing contractor field tests, and collecting water samples.
• Review and manage permits related to the water system, including data management and communicating with all stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and improve GIS database architecture and tables.
• Develop GIS web maps, apps, dashboards, and reports.
• Maintain & support CMMS workflows, data integrity, and reporting for the water production bureau.
• IT support for the water production bureau, including implementation and troubleshooting of hardware (tablets, laptops, cellular, printers, etc) and software (GIS, CMMS, etc).
• Collect and verify data using appropriate tools and hardware including GPS receivers, tablet computers, and measuring devices for water and sewer system construction and system monitoring/testing.
• Perform research and utilize technology as aids in developing solutions to engineering problems.
• Investigate complaints from community members, contractors and the general public.
• Respond to, resolve, or escalate service requests in accordance city standards and parameters.
• Perform and assist in archival records scanning and indexing, and researching plan/profile drawings, easement, agreements, and other documents.
• Supervise or review work done by interns as needed.
• Demonstrate consistent and methodical approaches to problem solving.

• Must possess an associate's degree or higher in engineering, geography, GIS, or related discipline.
• Must have at least 2 years' experience in engineering, GIS, or related field.
• Must have valid driver's license with safe driving record

• Thorough understanding of GIS software, including ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro and familiarity with ArcGIS Enterprise Portal and ArcGIS Online.
• Experience editing within an enterprise geodatabase and applicable QA/QC techniques.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and Google suite of applications.
• Ability to read digital drawings, blueprints, specifications, safety manuals and rules, personnel rules, city code, and related documents.
• Ability to prepare data summaries and reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style that are understandable to the audience to whom the written document is addressed.
• Ability to recognize and report errors, inconsistencies, and other deficiencies in technical data.
• Consistent and methodical approaches to problem solving.
• Excellent communications, organization, and project management skills.
• Ability to organize multiple projects and work on multiple tasks concurrently.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, contractors, members of the public, and city officials.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; and to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.
• Ability to speak effectively and persuasively, using appropriate diction, articulation, vocabulary and presence appropriate to the audience to whom the spoken word is addressed.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and quickly learn new systems.
• Engineering and GIS skills within a municipal setting preferred.

Light work: exerting up to 30 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Type of physical demands: stooping (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist); kneeling (bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees); crouching (bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine);

feeling (perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by means of receptors in the skin); fingering (picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily); reaching (extending hands(s) and arm(s) in any direction); handling (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hands); talking (expressing or exchanging ideas by means…