GIS Engineer

Job description / Role

- Use a range of GPS tools in the field to capture the location of 'assets' such as bridges, street lights, road barriers and flood defenses
- Undertake desk-based data capture (digitizing) to convert paper maps to GIS datasets to, for example, record the location of telecoms cables or water pipelines from original maps.
- Create and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage
- Develop tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems
- Manipulate, analyze and present geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another
- Develop internet apps to present GIS data and tools on corporate websites
- Use tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people potentially affected by flooding, using population growth figures and planning information to estimate increasing/decreasing demand for school capacity or calculating the number of potential customers for a new supermarket and predicting buying patterns based on socio-economic factors.
- Many of the activities are project based and involve working with clients to find out the nature and purpose of the information they require.

Requirements

- Bachelors Degree in related field

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.