Work, Serve, Thrive.  With the City of Durham   

Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve. 

Hiring Range:  $70,284.00 - $89,607.00

Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The City of Durham’s Department of Water Management (DWM) wants YOU to join our team of more than 380 talented and dedicated employees that provide critical water and sewer services for Durham’s 309,000 plus residents. Not only do we deliver the Best Tasting Water in the state to our customers each and every day, but we also make sure that the wastewater leaving our facilities is carefully treated to protect the environment. We have a wide-ranging variety of positions open to match your skill set – mechanics, engineers, maintenance specialists, technicians, customer billing techs, and much more.  If you have a passion for managing vital water resources, protecting the environment, providing excellent customer service, and keeping the water and wastewater in the pipes, bring your skills and talent to Durham!

The Utility Divisions of Water Management are seeking a highly skilled GIS analyst to provide technical support with water/wastewater piping systems, pump stations, and other related infrastructure.  A successful candidate will be able to thoroughly analyze spatial data and produce compelling visualizations for a variety of feature classes. The role will require the often to frequent use of ArcPro editing tools, sql queries, spatial analysis tools, and python scripting in order to meet the robust service expectations for the Divisions.

Duties include creating datasets, digitizing geospatial data, creating map layouts for reports and contracts, predicting cost estimates, collecting field data, as well as, using and maintaining GPS equipment.   This role coordinates heavily with the City’s Department of Public Works and Department of Technology Solutions.  Other tasks as assigned may include:

• Provide advanced professional analysis and project management on GIS related initiatives, including preparing project scopes, developing work plans, and mitigating risks. This role may be asked to test, review, or evaluate software or tools and may design, develop, and maintain specialized databases in coordination with the existing policies and expectations of the City’s GIS datasets. 
• Prepare, maintain, review, and submit reports, projects and other plans, and review completed work for accuracy, completeness and compliance with contracts, and applicable regulations, policies, and procedures. 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, information technology, or directly related field,
• Five years of related professional information technology or related experience.

• Have a valid, unrestricted, North Carolina driver's license "or" if you currently have another state driver's license, be willing and able to obtain a valid NC driver's license within 60 days of hire
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a technical program such as engineering, surveying, geography, information technology or computer science
• Five or more years of related “hands on” GIS experience
• Two or more years of experience with water/wastewater projects
• Experience with technology business process management
• Experience with MS Access, SQL
• One or more years experience with advanced geoprocessing and/or Python scripting
• Be a team player and able to coordinate with other divisions and/or departments
• Experience with ArcGIS toolbox tools & industry standard programing languages to streamline data production & analysis 
• Experience with asset management software, Cityworks preferred