Senior GIS/CAD Technician

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CAD drawings, GIS datasets, and engineering records.
• Produce and verify as-built drawings using construction, commissioning, and site verification information.
• Prepare accurate, complete handover packages, drawings, maps, and asset information.
• Maintain geospatial databases and asset registers for water assets, utilities, pipelines, facilities, and related systems.
• Coordinate documentation with engineering, construction, commissioning, and quality teams; validate GIS and CAD deliverables.
• Manage drawing revisions, document control, and data updates in project information systems.
• Support site verification and incorporate field survey data into project records and asset databases.
• Generate maps, plans, spatial analyses, and technical reports; coordinate transfer of information for operational use.

Experience and qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in GIS, CAD, drafting, or engineering documentation for infrastructure, utilities, water, transportation, or construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of GIS data management, CAD drafting, as-built documentation, utility mapping, engineering drawings, asset information management, and geospatial data standards.
• Advanced proficiency in ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and document management systems.
• Experience with BIM and Common Data Environment platforms is advantageous.
• Experience supporting project delivery, close-out, asset handover, change management, document control, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geomatics, Surveying, Civil Engineering Technology, Drafting, or a related discipline.
• Major water, utilities, or infrastructure project experience and asset handover knowledge are preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, communication, problem solving, stakeholder management, and prioritization.

Work arrangement

• The posting states that onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs workplace full-time as required by the role.