GIS Specialist

Job Description:

Symbiont, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a multi-disciplined, employee-owned engineering and consulting firm that offers challenging and rewarding growth opportunities to our employees. Our Company has been evaluated by our own employees in surveys that have resulted in several annual awards of Top Work Place by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Our client base includes multiple Fortune 100 companies, municipalities, and state agencies.  Symbiont provides turnkey design-build services for multiple industrial clients. Symbiont’s industrial clients are located throughout the United States and include top-brand brewing, beverage bottling, and dairy companies.  Symbiont’s municipal clients are generally located in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. 

Our Milwaukee office is seeking a full-time GIS Specialist.  The ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree and approximately one to three years GIS experience, strong academic credentials, demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, as well as excellent personal and academic references.  Experience in the consulting industry is preferred but not required. 

Job Duties:

• Develop and manage GIS databases.
• Database conversion.
• Create and maintain web-based GIS project sites.
• Geodatabase management, cartography, spatial data creation, and analysis .
• GPS data collection using Trimble units, post-processing and manipulation.

Qualifications & Experience:

• ESRI software (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online) including tools and databases such as Model Builder, Shapefiles, Geodatabases
• MS SQL Server (ArcSDE)
• Asset Management software implementation.
• GIS principles and software
• Database design, information needs, and metadata development standards.

Qualified candidates should submit resume and cover letter via email at resumes@symbiontonline.com  The subject line of the email should be: Last Name, First Name, Job Number. (Job #WI01302017-FTGIS)