What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Technician (Electric) position at Consumers Energy?
Join the diverse and dynamic team that powers Michigan's largest energy provider and one of the nation's largest gas and electric combination utilities. Consumers Energy services 6.8 million of Michigan's 10 million residents - caring for our friends and neighbors in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. We embrace a cleaner and leaner utility vision focused on eliminating energy waste and adding renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar.
Location:
This position is assigned to Grand Rapids Service Center located in Grand Rapids, MI. The selected candidate must be within a commutable distance from those locations or willing to relocate.
We are looking for: GIS Technician
The GIS Technician will be responsible for interpreting construction designs, as-built information, queries/reports and other engineering documents. This position maintains the electric LVD, HVD, gas distribution or gas transmission & storage system location and connectivity data in ArcGIS and/or CAD. The candidate will use multiple engineering and operating systems including SAP, ArcGIS, SIMS, outage management, MS Office, Power BI to query, QA/QC and collect data to support critical business functions.
The knowledge and skills involved with this position include but are not limited to:
- Proficiency in using ArcGIS and/or CAD software
- Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings
- MS Windows Applications
- Experience with utilities and ability to understand engineering concepts
- Storm Restoration Activities
- Written and Oral Communication/Interpersonal Skills
- Working knowledge of SAP
We encourage you to apply if you have:
- Associates degree in Geography (GIS) or technical field with a minimum of two (2) years of experience with ArcGIS technology within utilities
- [OR] High School Diploma with a minimum of six (6) years of experience with ArcGIS technology within utilities
- Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings Field experience with design, construction and/or restoration is preferred
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Understand and adapt to standards and procedures to fit unique situations and problems in order to creates and update geospatial asset data in ArcGIS
- Advise management on best practices and process changes
- Develop new practices and procedures in order to adjust to changing upstream and downstream requirements
- Interpret construction designs for customer relocation, capacity projects, failures, reliability improvement projects or maintenance/inspections alongside as-built records, test results, survey data and other geospatial data sources
- Review work orders for quality, and conformity of standards and interact with internal customers to gather missing or incomplete data and/or problem solve gaps
- Communicate with customers both internal and external to CE on data requests/issues along with scheduling/coordinate workload with other departments
- Interrogate and query various data repositories, run geoprocessing tools to ensure standard QA/QC rules apply
- Performs complex data maintenance and problem-solving solutions; ability to use GIS geoprocessing tools for complex analytics
- Support, recommend and/or perform updates of department work instructions and procedures to fit new standards
- The role may be required to assist with storm and emergency restoration activities which includes both office and field assignments
- Other duties as assigned or may be necessary
Why should you join our team?
At Consumers Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k with company match
- Paid parental leave
- Up to 13 paid Holidays
- Paid time off
- Educational Assistance Program
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
We, at CMS Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women’s Advisory Panel (WAP), Women’s Engineering Network (WEN), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Nearest Major Market: Grand Rapids
Job Segment: Geology, GIS, QC, Gas, Gas Technician, Engineering, Technology, Quality, Energy
