GIS Specialist

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!   At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.   Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented GIS Specialist to join our team! What You’ll Be Doing Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support across the project. Develop, manage, and maintain project GIS databases and geodatabases. Collect, process, validate, analyze, and visualize spatial data. Maintain accurate GIS layers for project infrastructure, utilities, buildings, roads, pavements, drainage, and other assets. Integrate survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite, drone, and field data into GIS platforms. Ensure all spatial information is correctly georeferenced and aligned with approved project coordinate systems. Review GIS data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with project requirements. Establish and maintain GIS data standards, naming conventions, metadata, and data structures. Perform spatial analysis to support engineering, construction, planning, logistics, and asset management activities. Develop and maintain GIS maps, drawings, dashboards, and visualization products. Support project teams with spatial queries, analysis, and geospatial information requirements. Coordinate with Survey teams to ensure accurate survey control, coordinates, benchmarks, and spatial datasets. Coordinate with BIM teams to integrate BIM models and GIS datasets where required. Support integration between GIS, BIM, CAD, CDE, and asset management systems. Perform data conversion between different GIS, CAD, and engineering formats. Manage geospatial data imports, exports, editing, cleaning, and transformation. Maintain metadata and ensure traceability of GIS datasets. Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and spatial conflicts. Conduct GIS quality assurance and implement corrective actions where required. Support development of automated GIS workflows and data management processes. Provide technical guidance to junior GIS staff and project teams. Prepare GIS reports, maps, dashboards, and technical presentations. Maintain GIS registers, data inventories, issue logs, and data quality reports. Support digital handover and asset information requirements. Ensure GIS information remains current throughout design, construction, commissioning, and handover. Airport / Infrastructure & Airfield Responsibilities Develop and maintain GIS datasets for airport terminals, airfield facilities, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, drainage, and external infrastructure. Support management of airport-wide spatial information and infrastructure databases. Maintain GIS information for airside and landside assets. Coordinate spatial data for airport utilities, including water, sewerage, stormwater, electrical, telecom, and other underground services. Support mapping and analysis of existing and proposed infrastructure. Identify spatial conflicts between new works, existing assets, utilities, and project interfaces. Support airport construction planning through spatial analysis and GIS visualization. Develop GIS outputs to support construction access, logistics, work zones, temporary facilities, and phased construction. Support coordination of airfield infrastructure and airport asset information. Ensure airport-specific coordinate reference systems and geospatial requirements are correctly implemented. Support integration of as-built information into the final GIS environment. GIS Data Management Develop and maintain enterprise and project-level geodatabases. Manage vector and raster datasets, including points, lines, polygons, imagery, terrain, and infrastructure layers. Establish data validation rules and quality control procedures. Maintain attribute data and ensure required asset information is complete. Develop and maintain metadata in accordance with project standards. Manage GIS data versioning, updates, revisions, and approvals. Ensure data is backed up and maintained in accordance with project information management procedures. Coordinate GIS data exchanges with Consultants, Contractors, Client teams, and other stakeholders. Spatial Analysis & Visualization Perform spatial analysis to support engineering and construction decision-making. Analyze proximity, connectivity, accessibility, utility corridors, infrastructure interfaces, and site constraints. Develop thematic maps and spatial dashboards. Produce GIS-based visualizations for management and technical presentations. Support spatial analysis of construction progress and project development. Develop interactive GIS dashboards where required. Provide geospatial information to support risk identification and project planning. Survey & Engineering Coordination Coordinate with Survey teams to ensure consistency between survey data and GIS datasets. Integrate topographical surveys, as-built surveys, GPS data, and field observations into GIS. Support verification of infrastructure locations and asset coordinates. Coordinate with Civil, Utilities, Roads, Drainage, Structural, MEP, and other engineering disciplines. Support identification of spatial discrepancies between drawings, surveys, GIS data, and site conditions. Provide GIS information to support technical queries, design reviews, construction coordination, and field activities. Digital Handover & Asset Management Support the development of GIS-based asset registers and infrastructure databases. Ensure asset locations and attributes are accurately captured for handover. Coordinate with Commissioning and Asset Management teams to ensure GIS data meets operational requ