GIS Specialist

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Job Description

Purpose of the Role

Manage the integrated geospatial information system of the Project and the central GIS database, gathering environmental, social, land, mining, engineering, and infrastructure data. Provide accurate maps, spatial analyses, and accessible geospatial products to support project planning, technical studies, permits, and decision-making. Work cross-functionally with Project teams and external consultants to ensure that spatial information is current, consistent, traceable, and fit for purpose.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and maintain the Project's central GIS database as the controlled source of environmental, social, land, mining, engineering, and infrastructure information.
• Establish GIS standards for folder and layer structures, file naming, metadata, coordinate reference systems, formats, symbology, version control, and user access.
• Apply documented QA/QC controls covering data integrity, accuracy, consistency, projection, topology, duplication, and currency, ensuring full traceability of changes.
• Manage the publication and access to data within shared GIS environments, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with document control requirements, including version coding, revision status, and controlled distribution.
• Collect, consolidate, georeference, transform, validate, and integrate spatial data from Project teams, consultants, field programs, and external sources.
• Prepare high-quality maps, figures, map books, and spatial reports for technical studies, permit documents, management presentations, field activities, and internal and external reports.
• Perform spatial analyses, including overlays, buffers, distance and area calculations, corridor reviews, and change detection, to identify Project interactions, constraints, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop web maps, dashboards, and other GIS visualization products, and automate recurrent mapping and data processing workflows where practical.
• Work cross-functionally with Environmental, Social, Permits, Engineering, and other departments, and external consultants to define requirements and resolve data inconsistencies.
• Translate technical and business needs into suitable GIS products and communicate spatial information clearly to both technical and non-technical users.
• Support field activities through GIS and mobile data collection tools, coordinate reference guidance, templates, data integration, and validation, including on-site support as needed.
• Provide technical GIS guidance, training, and problem-solving to Project staff.
• Maintain GIS procedures, data flows, change records, and standard product documentation to ensure continuity and auditability, and recommend improvements in geospatial tools, data management practices, and visualization methods.
• Plan and coordinate drone surveys and manage the processing, QA/QC, storage, and integration of UAV-derived data, including aerial imagery, orthomosaics, digital elevation models, point clouds, and other geospatial products, ensuring compliance with applicable HSE, aviation, safety, and data management requirements.