GIS Consultant

About The Role

We are seeking a GIS Consultant to join our friendly, experienced GIS & Visualisation team. This role will provide you with an excellent opportunity to develop and enhance your GIS skills in a consultancy environment.

In this role, you will provide GIS input into projects for all of LUC’s service areas, including planning, ecology and landscape planning and management projects. Your work will be varied, and will include map production, digitising, geographic data analysis, managing field data collection and reporting.

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to a diverse range of projects including ecology mapping, Landscape and Seascape Character Assessment, Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment and Open Space and Green Infrastructure audits. You will work as part of an innovative and fun team comprising GIS, graphic design, web development and 3D visualisation experts.

The role includes the opportunity to share and participate actively in the management and ownership of the business through the Employee Ownership Trust, which places full ownership of the company with the employees.

This role could be based in Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, or Sheffield. We work in a hybrid model and the role includes an expectation that successful applicants will be in the office a minimum of two days per week.

A full-time role is based on 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday). However, LUC has a strong track record in flexible working, and we have been recognised for our flexible working culture, so we are happy to discuss a range of flexible working options for this role including part time hours (minimum 30 hours per week) if desired.

Salary range: £27,000 - £32,000 FTE (Depending on experience)

This is a great time to be joining LUC. Since its creation nearly 60 years ago, LUC has been driven by the belief that planning has a critical role to play in shaping the world around us for the better. This work has never been more critical or urgent.

Experience And Qualifications

Successful candidates will be organised and efficient people with good communication, who are keen to utilise their skills, knowledge and experience to deliver better places for nature, people and places.

This role is likely to have a strong focus on renewable energy projects, including wind farms, solar farm, mixed use technologies, and overhead lines, so an interest in this area would be beneficial.

Essential

• GIS or related degree, or a blend of knowledge and qualifications reflecting a similar level of expertise.
• Practical experience in a consultancy or other non-academic context in data processing and analysis using GIS and Excel.
• Experience of applying GIS analysis to landscape, planning, ecology or wider environmental issues.
• Experience of ESRI software products, particularly ArcGIS Pro and AGOL.
• A proactive, organised and effective approach to your work and an appetite for diverse projects.
• The ability to work efficiently and respond quickly to meet deadlines, whilst working on a number of projects simultaneously.
• Good knowledge of using UK environmental and Ordnance Survey datasets.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience with ArcGIS extensions, including Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst.
• Knowledge of other GIS or CAD software.
• Knowledge of graphics packages (Photoshop, InDesign, etc).
• PostgreSQL database/Geoserver experience.
• Python scripting, including ArcPy.
• Experience of manipulating Remote Sensing data.
• Experience / interest in reporting on your findings.
  
  

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Please apply by uploading your CV and covering letter via the above link

LUC is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We value the differences, needs and contributions a diverse workforce represents, and we strive to embed equality, diversity and inclusion in all our people related activities.