WGL - Manager, Operations Geo Spatial

WGL - Manager, Operations Geo Spatial

Washington Gas has an immediate opening to manage GIS, Mapping, Digital Records, and Survey teams out of our Springfield, VA Operations Center.

• Manage multiple departments, associated supervisors and direct assigned employees, including hiring, evaluating, training, performance management, compensating, motivating, coaching, and developing goals and procedures to ensure the achievement of goals
• Consults with and acts as liaison to end users, management, vendors, other government agencies, and IT resources within the Company's service territory
• Manages 200K+ annual new field documents required for safety and compliance, representation of system support for all compliance audits
• Responsible for the management of multiple large international firms supporting critical geospatial infrastructure including all gas assets, land base data, building information, addresses, and roadways within company territory
• Responsible for internal and external support teams in excess of 50+ employees
• Manages $400M+ new Geospatial infrastructure annually and corresponding field notes
• Maintains 2M+ existing Geospatial infrastructure assets and corresponding field notes
• Responsible for design, build, and growth of GIS within the company
• Work with other teams and departments within the company to understand business processes to design, build and implement GIS platforms per requirements and needs
• Perform QA/QC of GIS data including review for accuracy and completeness
• Develops and implements process controls and tools to resolve issues, improve information accuracy and completeness, and improve efficiency
• Document technical GIS procedures and metadata of GIS datasets, and define inter-departmental business processes
• Administer the central repository for GIS information and establish procedures, conventions, quality assurance and documentation best practices and business policies
• Design and develop GIS technology that improves safety and reporting for compliance
• Adapt and perform spatial analysis to resolve complex GIS mapping problems and develop solutions
• Work collaboratively with IT group and contractors to establish and continuously improve systems, policies and processes
• Continue to automate Records processes to align with company wide paperless workflows
• Represent the Company's interests before external audiences, including providing expert witness testimony and contractual negotiations and collaboration with external audiences to review and evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs, guidelines, systems, and services within the assigned unit
• Develop and implement a company wide Strategic Sourcing Plan for the Geo Spatial area
• Conduct and direct the development of queries and analyses using spatial and non-spatial databases to assist with planning, maintenance, and operational issues
• Manage contractor work assignments for accuracy and timeliness
• Ensure accurate annual O&M/Capital budgeting is aligned between each team
• Manage company wide Land Right requests including quit claim deeds, ROW, easements
• Manage Survey team and requests for all field check verifications for staking, locating and preliminary requests
• Support customer Mapping portal and requests

• Bachelor's Degree Geographical Information System (GIS), Computer Science, or related field preferred
• 7+ Years working experience implementing GIS enterprise business solutions, survey, and/or utilities mapping database development required
• 3+ Years of direct supervisory experience
• Experience and demonstrated working knowledge in the integration of GIS with work management, network analysis, SCADA, customer information, document management systems and other relevant enterprise IT systems
• Demonstrated working knowledge of mapping systems, construction drawings, and drafting software applications such as AutoCAD or Microstation
• Proven ability to use computer software and applications, including Small world, ESRI ArcGIS, AGOL, Utility Network, and Arc Pro
• Demonstrated ability to present diverse ideas logically and concisely both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrated ability to establish rapport and effective working relationships…