(USA-TX-Dallas) GIS Specialist

**Company Description**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business. We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career. When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join us and let’s get started.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

**Job Description**

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – over 50,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

AECOM is actively seeking a highly motivated GIS Specialist in our Dallas, TX office. AECOM is currently under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract providing production and technical services for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) program from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Under this contract, AECOM provides engineering and other technical services nationwide, including the production of effective, flexible, and sustainable Risk MAP products to develop and implement tools to protect the United States from floods and other related hazardous conditions.

This position is expected to begin in February 2023. This person will be an integral part of the team, utilizing their knowledge of GIS, Data Management, and problem-solving skills to support our client. That candidate will support mapping and database development for riverine floodplain mapping studies for developing Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).

The successful candidate for the GIS Specialist I position will have the ability to assist in managing projects and project teams to support ongoing projects and quality control. The ideal candidate will need to thrive in an oftentimes fast-paced environment, have attention to detail, and provide a broad range of floodplain mapping skills and possess QA/QC capabilities.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to: Develop and maintain databases, reports, and mapping. Create, organize, manipulate, and retrieve GIS data for reporting, analysis, and presentation purposes. Perform quality assurance of GIS data and associated graphic components. Use concepts, practices and procedures to extract and provide GIS data to clients. Support natural disasters incidents when they occur. Prepare and maintain internal and external project documentation. May direct the work of Level I/II GIS Specialists. Responsibilities could include overall project or task management and quality review Independently executes and delivers GIS projects of moderate to significant scope and complexity. Experience with the FEMA Risk Map Program

**Qualifications**

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in Geography or a related field. Due to the nature of projects this position will support, US Citizenship is required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Proficient in ArcGIS, Problem Solving, Technical Writing Skills.

**Additional Information**

Additional Information:

Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Relocation is not available for this position

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10071791

**Business Line:** Water

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** East

**Career Area:** Digital & Engineering Technology