GIS Analyst

100% onsite - North Carolina (greater Charlotte area)

We are seeking a highly motivated GIS Technician / Analyst to join our Grid Modernization team. In this role, you will help maintain and enhance the Cooperative's Geographic Information System (GIS), ensuring the accuracy and integrity of mapping data that supports engineering, operations, planning, and business initiatives. This position is ideal for a GIS professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving data quality, supporting enterprise GIS applications, and collaborating across departments to advance utility operations.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date system maps and drawings, including detailed maps, transmission maps, circuit diagrams, key maps, one-line diagrams, territorial maps, and other engineering drawings.
• Accept maps, staking sheets, drawings, sketches, plats, orthophotos, topographic maps, and other documentation and accurately digitize them into the GIS system.
• Ensure all GIS map alterations and revisions are current and accurately reflected within the system.
• Assist the GIS Supervisor with implementing departmental objectives.

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geography, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Progressively responsible experience with ESRI-based GIS systems like Arc Map, Arc Catalog, Arc Engine, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, etc.
• Experience working with SQL Server databases, including writing and optimizing complex SQL queries and data integration.

• AutoCAD.
• NISC Mapping & Staking.
• Experience with Python, Arc Py, or other GIS automation tools.
• Knowledge of the electric utility industry.