What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Technician position at Lincoln Electric System?
Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, customer-owned LES is one of the nation’s leading utility companies. We’re recognized for low costs, reliability, financial stability, innovation, environmental stewardship, community involvement and exceptional customer service. So, if you are looking for a career, and not just a job; if you value working in an atmosphere that values passion and talent, high personal standards, service excellence, the environment and the community in which we live- LES may be the place for you. Please note, LES is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, LES is not able to sponsor employment-based immigrant or non-immigrant visas. This is not a remote position and requires residency within reasonable commuting distance to LES in Lincoln, Nebraska daily.
Job Title
GIS Technician
Employment Type
Starting Pay Range
Posting Date
Full-time
$28.65 - $35.81
5/5/2023
Employment Classification
Division
Closing Date
Regular
Technology Services
Until Filled
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY:
Our GIS department is looking for motivated people to join our team. To see if this is the right job for you ask yourself these 5 questions:
- Are you a curious person?
- Do you like to be challenged and grow?
- Do you like to get away from your desk and actually see the projects you work on?
- Do you enjoy providing a service that directly impacts the community in a positive way?
- Do you want to work for a company that is stable? A company that provides a product that is needed during times of a recession or pandemic.
If you answered YES to these questions, we encourage you to apply.
The GIS team understands that you may not have a strong understanding of how an electric distribution system works and that is ok as we are confident that we can teach it to someone who is adaptable and willing to dive into the details.
This position will primarily be focused on electric utility mapping with ESRI ArcMap (GIS), but AutoCAD experience will also be beneficial.
CORE COMPETENCIES AND ESSENTIAL
- Responsible for performing technical functions related to GIS/CAD systems to include creating and maintaining documents and records, conducting office and field research, and assisting staff with design projects. Completes independent tasks on large projects with minimal guidance. Consistent and reliable attendance is required.
- Designs technical drawings, visualization models, and maintains related records. Performs updates to GIS/CAD system records and databases utilizing applicable software.
- Inspects, collects, and verifies data and labels electrical facilities for use with GIS/CAD system records per LES procedures. Completion of these duties requires the opening and inspection of energized, high-voltage electrical equipment or entering electrical substations with provided training.
- Creates output from GIS/CAD systems, including plots, reports, and drawings for various departments, contractors, utilities, and government agencies.
- Maintains data for use in circuit load management, system protection, design projects, and engineering planning.
Customer Focus – Seeking a candidate who puts customers, both internal and external, at the center of business decisions in order to identify and respond to current and future customer needs. Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to internal customers.
Initiative – The individual in this position takes action on thier own without being prompted; handles problems independently; able to resolve issues without relying on extensive help from others; does more than is expected or asked.
Communication – The ideal candidate expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner whether verbally, written, or other means; tailors message to fit the interests and needs of the audience; delivers information in a manner that is interesting and compelling.
Teamwork – The successful candidate in this position has the ability to effectively interact, cooperate, collaborate, and manage conflicts with other people. Shows enthusiasm toward being a member of the group; actively participates in team meetings and activities; leverages the skills and interests of coworkers to achieve goals and solve problems; supports team decisions.
Quality Orientation – Seeking a candidate that holds self and others to being attentive to detail and accuracy, maintains high quality work, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems while encouraging a quality focus in others.
Project Management – The individual in this position establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, and manages multiple projects.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Assists with crisis/emergency situations, when necessary.
- Ability to apply knowledge of GIS and/or CAD software and systems.
- Ability to apply knowledge of transmission, substation, and distribution design principles.
- Ability to apply knowledge of architectural and engineering design plans.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Associates degree in related field, and
- Two years of GIS/CAD or drafting experience, or
- An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Valid driver’s license
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
A typical week in this position would be 4 days of office work and 1 day in the field. Field work will require inspecting new and existing equipment along with tagging/labeling electrical distribution assets as necessary to ensure accuracy of our GIS, Engineering and Outage Management System. While working in GIS our team creates - maintains GIS features, data, and connectivity. We work directly with both Engineering and our Operations teams.
Our team is located together at a new campus located at 9445 Rokeby Rd, Lincoln NE.
EEO Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans
Salary : $29 - $36
