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Job Description:

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!

When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons. Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We have got what you are looking for.

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented GIS Specialist - QA to join our team in London. Parsons is providing Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services for the development of NEOM Infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The project is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of north-western Saudi Arabia. The site is near the Red Sea and the borders of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. It will cover a total area of 26,500 km2 (10,200 sq mi) and will extend 460 km along the coast of the Red Sea.

Together we are delivering the world’s largest project, imagining a new way of living, and leaving behind an unmatched legacy.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Development of GIS Quality Control / Quality Assurance plans, procedures, and workflows to ensure compliance with international GIS standards (IAW ISO Standard Series 19100), to include GIS metadata requirements.

• Design and conduct GIS quality control testing.

• Design and create quality control feedback mechanisms, reports, documentation to support teams addressing data quality issues.

• Creation of Quality Assurance Plans (QAP) for GIS data layers.

• Development of automated quality control checking scripts to report on data quality.

• Quality review of data integration workflows such as CAD/BIM data to GIS.

• Ensure GIS Team, Digital Workstream Teams and other Project Stakeholders are aware, informed and trained in applying GIS QA/QC procedures in their work.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Degree in Geography, Planning, Engineering, Computer Science or related curriculum (or equivalent)

• Prior years of related experience

• Proficiency in GIS software applications and programming is required. Also requires a demonstrated proficiency in both written and oral communication skills and a working knowledge of industry practices. In addition, the incumbent must possess the following specific skills and competencies:

• Well-developed skills with one or more GIS packages including scripting, programming, modelling, and designing.

• Ability to design and maintain GIS databases and other database formats such as Microsoft Access, dBase, etc.

• Proficiency in cartography and map design, including coordinating systems, projections, and map scales.

• Ability to utilize, convert and incorporate various types of data into GIS. Examples of this data include Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and database files.

• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Visual Basic, Python, HTML, AML, EML, Cold Fusion, C#

• Systems automation skills (e.g., UNIX scripts, NT batch scripts, Linux scripts)

• Systems and peripheral troubleshooting skills

• Ability to independently assess data anomalies, software problems, and program design flaws, and take appropriate steps to make the project work.

• Ability to ascertain hardware/software limitations, how to work within them, and what can be done when limits are reached.

• Ability to communicate results of assigned tasks in writing.

• Ability to document work performed on a project in project logs.

• Ability to document specific information about project data in the metadata file.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience implementing GIS standards and quality control procedures on GIS projects.

• Proficiency in basic office automation software including MS-Word or MS-Excel.

• Knowledge of CAD/BIM data formats, quality control / review processes relating to BIM standards, scripting skills for development of automated testing and quality reviews.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 75 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

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