GIS Analyst

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.

Our employee-owned firm is deeply involved in the conceptualization, design, development, and deployment of next-generation digital tools for our industry. 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

The Advanced Digital Engineering (ADE) team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is seeking to recruit a Geospatial Analyst. 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. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of the challenges of GIS and data delivery, remote sensing, field data collection and reporting/analytics on projects of all scales, with particular importance on long-term sustainable transportation (i.e.: rail and public transit) projects.

The Toronto ADE team is a member of the Americas ADE network, and as such, regular collaboration with the greater regional team is part of this role. This will provide additional opportunities for the successful candidate to contribute to work on exciting projects across the Americas region.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting data management, data visualizations, cartography, spatial analysis, automation/scripting of spatial tasks, web development, and many other GIS- linked technical tasks
• Technical memo / report writing, presentations and client engagement, with appropriate support from the team
• Producing project related correspondence and GIS deliverables
• Providing supervision / mentorship for junior staff on the team / your projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject such as Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Software Development, Information Technology or similar
• Specialist GIS skills working with ArcGIS / ArcGIS Pro, Atlas, FME, Fuse, Survey123, Code on Time, Report Builder, PowerBI, SQL
• Five years of post-graduate GIS work experience
• Specialist GIS consulting experience in areas of infrastructure, planning and environmental projects
• Supervisory experience, including training and mentoring entry and/or intern-level staff is an asset
• Experience gathering user requirements through tools such as workflow mapping
• Enjoys working as part of and actively contributing to a positive, friendly, and supportive team culture

Notable Projects

Arup is the creative force at the heart of the world’s most prominent projects across our industry. We offer a diverse portfolio of professional services to clients around the world that combine to make a real difference to our clients and the communities in which we work.

Mobility Mosaic, a mobile application for collecting advanced travel data and informing urban, aviation and transport planning (https://www.mobility-mosaic.com/)

Open-sourced data and analysis to help NGO’s, governments, and firms understand homelessness trends because of COVID-19 and resulting shutdowns. (https://github.com/arup-group/social-data)

Arup Virtual Engage (https://www.arup.com/expertise/services/digital/virtual-engage)

Arup Inspect (https://www.arup.com/our-firm/arup-inspect)

Read more about the work of Advanced Digital Engineering or our partner City Modeling Lab on Medium.

What We Offer

Benefits that Work – At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families while keeping costs low. These benefits provide health and welfare security for you as well as paid time off for rest and renewal. Our Global Profit Share Plan (paid bi-annually) provides an opportunity for you to share in the success of the Firm. As a valued employee of Arup, you can also choose to participate in our RRSP plan with up to 9% company match to help you save for your future.

Flexible Working – We believe that flexible arrangements create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people. Options for alternative schedules and the ability to work outside of the office for a portion of your workweek are available.

Arup is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified candidates regardless of minority, veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or other status protected by law. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected] .

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement – Arup requires all new employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Arup is an equal opportunity employer and consistent with federal, state/ provincial, and local requirements, will consider requests for reasonable accommodation based on disability or sincerely held religious beliefs where it is able to do so without undue hardship to Arup.