Summary
Parsons is hiring a Senior GIS/CAD Technician for its project team in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. The role leads GIS activities and manages geospatial databases, spatial data quality, analysis, mapping, and integration with survey, BIM, CAD, and engineering data. The technician will support airport and infrastructure projects, maintain GIS information through design, construction, and handover, and provide technical guidance to junior staff. Applicants need a relevant bachelor’s degree, at least 10 years of related experience, and advanced proficiency with GIS platforms such as ArcGIS Pro, Online, or Enterprise.
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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior GIS /CAD Technician to join our team in Tabuk, KSA
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support across the project.Develop, manage, and maintain project GIS databases and geodatabases.
- Collect, process, validate, analyze, and visualize spatial data.Maintain accurate GIS layers for project infrastructure, utilities, buildings, roads, pavements, drainage, and other assets.Integrate survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite, drone, and field data into GIS platforms.
- Ensure all spatial information is correctly georeferenced and aligned with approved project coordinate systems.
- Review GIS data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with project requirements.
- Establish and maintain GIS data standards, naming conventions, metadata, and data structures.
- Perform spatial analysis to support engineering, construction, planning, logistics, and asset management activities.Develop and maintain GIS maps, drawings, dashboards, and visualization products.
- Support project teams with spatial queries, analysis, and geospatial information requirements.Coordinate with Survey teams to ensure accurate survey control, coordinates, benchmarks, and spatial datasets.
- Coordinate with BIM teams to integrate BIM models and GIS datasets where required.Support integration between GIS, BIM, CAD, CDE, and asset management systems.
- Perform data conversion between different GIS, CAD, and engineering formats.
- Manage geospatial data imports, exports, editing, cleaning, and transformation.Maintain metadata and ensure traceability of GIS datasets.Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and spatial conflicts.Conduct GIS quality assurance and implement corrective actions where required.Support development of automated GIS workflows and data management processes.Provide technical guidance to junior GIS staff and project teams.
- Prepare GIS reports, maps, dashboards, and technical presentations.Maintain GIS registers, data inventories, issue logs, and data quality reports.Support digital handover and asset information requirements.
- Ensure GIS information remains current throughout design, construction, commissioning, and handover.Airport / Infrastructure & Airfield
- Develop and maintain GIS datasets for airport terminals, airfield facilities, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, drainage, and external infrastructure.
- Support management of airport-wide spatial information and infrastructure databases.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in GIS, Geomatics, Surveying, Geography, Civil Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
- Minimum 10+ years of r experience in GIS, geospatial information management, infrastructure mapping, or digital engineering.
- Strong experience working on major infrastructure, airport, transportation, utilities, or multidisciplinary construction projects.Advanced proficiency in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, or equivalent GIS platforms.Strong knowledge of geodatabases, spatial analysis, data management, and GIS visualization.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- GIS & Geospatial Information Management
- ArcGIS Pro / Enterprise / Online
- Spatial Analysis ,Geodatabase Management
- GIS Data Quality Assurance
- Infrastructure Mapping, Utility Mapping
- Experience with CAD and engineering data integration, including AutoCAD / Civil 3D, is highly desirable.
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