GIS Technician en High Speed Two (HS2) Limited

Location - Birmingham 

Salary - Base salary: £32,050 pa to c.£37,700 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a GIS Technician at HS2 you will be required to undertake land assembly activities as directed to secure entry to land for each work package within the allocated contract area in accordance with the construction programme through the implementation of compulsory purchase powers.

About the role: 

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Manage capture and processing of L&P acquisition records including registered titles, possessed land, land acquired under discretionary schemes, compulsory acquisition including material detriment, blight notices and payments made under discretionary property schemes (home owner payments, cash offer payments);
• Lead preparation of maps and plans for land hand-back, land transfers and disposals;
• Derive additional datasets through advanced GIS analysis and processing;
• Lead interface between Land & Property and the corporate HS2 BIM/GIS team to ensure standards are maintained;
• Adhere to HS2 GIS standards and specifications, through implementation and management of effective quality assurance processes;
• Assist with design, development and implementation of new or enhanced data specifications, standards and processes;
• Assure spatial data delivered by the Land Referencing Consultants (PSC) to defined HS2 standards;
• Provide point of technical expertise within the Land Assembly team, and provide support to other areas of Land & Property as required;
• Lead collaborative working with PSC to improve efficiency and accuracy of spatial data delivery;’

About You:

Skills:

• GIS data management skills, including digitising and data capture, analysis and assurance, and preparation of data schemas;
• Ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders and agree requirements;
• Ability to analyse and manipulate data within a Geographical Information System and digital mapping environment;
• Attention to detail and accuracy;
• Ability to work in a team and independently when required

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of ESRI ArcGIS 10.3.1 desktop applications
• Knowledge of GIS task automation.
• Understanding of database design;
• Understanding of data capture and assurance techniques;

Type of experience:

• Experience of ArcMap within infrastructure projects;
• Experience of capturing, analysing and assuring spatial data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools;
• Experience of writing macros to assist with GIS operations e.g. plan production;
• Experience of operating within a project/programme environment.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

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