GIS Technician

Key Responsibilities

• Create, update, and maintain standard operational maps for field crews, management, and regulatory reporting using established templates and company standards.
• Produce clear, accurate map products supporting exploration, pipeline routing, land operations, and daily operational logistics.
• Apply consistent symbology, labeling, and layout standards across all map deliverables to ensure professional, readable outputs.
• Respond to ad-hoc map requests from cross-functional teams within established turnaround timelines.
• Maintain an organized, version-controlled library of map products for easy retrieval and reuse.
• Digitize infrastructure features including wells, pipelines, roads, and facility footprints from source documents, imagery, and field sketches.
• Input GPS coordinates, survey data, and associated attributes into the corporate geodatabase with accuracy and consistency.
• Georeference scanned maps, plats, and legacy documents to align with current spatial reference frameworks.
• Convert field data from GPS units, mobile collection apps, and survey instruments into GIS-ready formats for integration into corporate systems.
• Maintain attribute completeness and accuracy across all digitized feature classes.
• Manage and maintain spatial datasets within the corporate geodatabase, ensuring data is current, organized, and accessible.
• Check spatial datasets for digitizing errors, missing attributes, topology violations, and overlapping features; resolve issues or escalate as appropriate.
• Archive older project maps and spatial layers, maintaining a clean and easily navigable directory structure for the GIS team.
• Apply and follow established naming conventions, folder structures, and metadata standards for all GIS files and datasets.
• Support data migration and normalization tasks during acquisition onboarding under direction of the GIS Team Lead.
• Fill out standardized metadata records detailing when spatial data was created, its source, coordinate system, and accuracy.
• Document data lineage, processing steps, and QA/QC outcomes for all datasets produced or modified.
• Maintain up-to-date project logs and work records to support team transparency and audit readiness.
• Aid in developing and following standard operating procedures (SOPs) for routine GIS tasks.
• Ensure GPS, survey, and field-collected data integrates cleanly into corporate GIS systems with proper projection, attributes, and quality review.
• Collaborate with field, engineering, and land teams to understand spatial data needs and translate them into GIS deliverables.
• Support environmental permitting, right-of-way mapping, and regulatory filing requirements through timely and accurate spatial data.
• Assist with spatial analysis tasks such as proximity studies, buffer analysis, and acreage calculations as directed.
• Participate in GIS team projects supporting pipeline routing, asset development, and operational planning.

Database Management & Data Integrity

• Manage and maintain spatial datasets within the corporate geodatabase, ensuring data is current, organized, and accessible.
• Check spatial datasets for digitizing errors, missing attributes, topology violations, and overlapping features; resolve issues or escalate as appropriate.
• Archive older project maps and spatial layers, maintaining a clean and easily navigable directory structure for the GIS team.
• Apply and follow established naming conventions, folder structures, and metadata standards for all GIS files and datasets.
• Support data migration and normalization tasks during acquisition onboarding under direction of the GIS Team Lead.