Gis/geospatial Specialist

**Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, advisors and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and **rigor** to shape a better world.**

At Arup, our innovative spirit compels us to express our ingenuity in unique ways — engineering, planning, designing, and consulting on many of the most renowned projects in the built environment. We aim to deliver technical excellence, innovation, and value to clients, while maintaining our core mission of shaping a better world. The firm opened its first office over 70 years ago and now employs 17,000 people globally. Our collective success is due to our focus on adapting our approach to the constantly changing environment, and on the need to reimagine a sustainable and resilient future for all. Arup is rising to these new challenges: by bringing together individuals from a wide range of disciplines investing in research and innovation to create better solutions for our clients and the wider world.

We are looking for committed individuals passionate about engaging specialists across the built environment to collaboratively build new digital solutions to help us reshape the world around us.

**Our Team**

Our growing Advanced Digital Engineering (ADE) team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is seeking to recruit a Geospatial Lead to join us. ADE is a global group of geospatial professionals, software developers, product managers, user experience designers and digital consultants within Arup. We use our collective talents to incubate and deliver technology-led solutions to clients, and in doing so help transform the way that cities, buildings and physical networks are planned and delivered.

**The Role**

Working as part of a rapidly growing team in Toronto with a vision to become a Geospatial Centre of Excellence, you will be leading and/or delivering technical GIS work related to environmental, planning and infrastructure aspects of local, national and international projects. You will work as part of a diverse, digitally minded team on projects of various types and scales, regularly cross-collaborating with other multi-disciplinary Arup teams to help shape a better world.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate and support the Digital Portfolio, service and discipline leadership team and skills networks on relationship building, identifying opportunities, supporting promotional activities, and connecting staff across other domains and markets.
- Coordinate and collaborate regularly with other geospatial leads in the Americas region to bring our clients the best digital solutions to our projects every day.
- Assist with the management and coordination of project resourcing for geospatial tasks and ongoing support requirements of geospatial staff in the Americas North geography.
- Oversee geospatial staff and assist them with data management, visualizations, cartography, spatial analysis, automation/scripting of spatial tasks, web development, and many other GIS-linked technical tasks on rail and other projects
- Seek out and identify opportunities to leverage geospatial and related technologies to analyze datasets, produce visuals, and empower Arup and its clients make better decisions.
- Maintain an environment that promotes quality and excellence and supports all members in connecting with opportunities, supporting their professional development and in working towards their full potential.
- Provide supervision and mentorship to junior staff on the team / your projects
- Conduct technical reviews to ensure a consistent, high-level of quality on project deliverables
- Use task management tools and techniques to support and coordinate the completion of project tasks and their on-time delivery
- Assist project leadership in the identification and management of scope creep on projects
- Ensure timely and professional project correspondence and communications within project teams and between project members
- Technical memo / report writing, documentation, presentations, and client engagement with appropriate support from the team and project leadership
- Identify and connect geospatial staff with opportunities to support their professional development goals

**Qualifications**

**Required**:

- Master’s Degree or Advanced Certificate / Diploma in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Software Development, Engineering, Information Technology or similar digital discipline.
- Experience leading a small technical team of geospatial consultants, including responsibility for team busyness, quality in work delivery, and professional development.
- Experience in supporting the development of commercial proposals for geospatial consulting work.
- Experience in detailed user requirements gathering and translation / mapping of requirements to digital solutions development pathways and functionalities.
- Strong communications skills, including ability to write an