IT - Engineering Technician

City of Madisonville•Madisonville, KY

8h•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this classification is to perform skilled and semi-skilled work in the installation, maintenance, and support of the City’s spatial data, GIS, and IT tools and systems according to the standard set forth by the Director of Information Technology.

Requirements

Associate or bachelor's degree in a related field (GIS, Computer Science) or equivalent combination of education and technical experience in GIS.
In-depth knowledge of spatial data, GIS technology and standards.
Ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data.
Ability to exercise discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.
Ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
Ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain the organization’s spatial data using approved GIS tools
Analyze data using GIS technology and discover patterns and trends through spatial data
Conduct use-case analysis of business functions to establish GIS application requirements and geospatial data model requirements
Conduct in-house training for approved GIS tools to end users
Troubleshoot performance and accuracy issues with spatial data and applications
Integrate various information sources through geo-rectify maps, charts, and other forms of information
Support the Integration of approved GIS tools and data with other business applications
Export data in multiple formats as needed
Generate reports for various stakeholders
Work closely with end users to identify GIS requirements, technical issues, and training needs
Review current data and GIS processing techniques and update as needed
Troubleshoot and resolve GIS application problems
Communicate with internal and external technical resources to resolve end-user issues
Provide guidance to end users on methods to resolve problems or address GIS related issues
Author and publish information layers with intuitive fields, scale dependencies, and symbology
Additional IT related duties as needed/assigned