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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an amazingly talented Environmental Data & GIS Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will leverage your environmental data management, database, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) skills to directly support environmental project work as it relates to site assessment, risk assessment, risk management, and remediation of impacted sites.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Under the supervision of the Database and GIS Team Lead, you will help implement, administer, maintain, and provide technical support for Parsons Canada’s environmental data management systems and GIS products. You will support our team in developing enterprise environmental information solutions, including the design and automation of digital workflows for project initiation, mobile data collection, database management, data analysis, visualization, and data exchanges with client systems.

• Use GIS and associated software to produce, display, and analyze geographic information to support environmental projects
• Create, organize, manipulate, and retrieve geospatially and environmentally relevant data for reporting, analysis, and presentation
• Load environmental data into Parsons’ databases and validate data for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with project and contractual requirements
• Identify, troubleshoot, and correct data issues, including rolling back or restoring data as required
• Extract and transform data from Parsons’ databases for delivery to client systems and prepare and load data into secondary/client databases
• Perform quality assurance and quality control on GIS and environmental data
• Develop, implement, and maintain environmental databases, including supporting historical data migration
• Design workflows, automation, and templates to support environmental data and GIS analysis, reporting, and presentation
• Support digital data collection programs and structured environmental datasets (e.g., laboratory, field, groundwater, soil, air monitoring data)
• Support data queries, reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc data requests, including development of data visualizations and dashboards (e.g., Power BI or similar tools)
• Support development or maintenance of GIS-based tools and applications, and assist with integration between environmental databases and other Parsons or client systems, including use of REST APIs for data access and automation

Responsibilities of this position will be adjusted based on the professional work experience of the successful candidate.

The successful candidate will have a strong sense of self-motivation toward assigned projects and the ability to balance work on multiple tasks, with proven ability as a team player. Candidates should possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

Parsons will give you the flexibility to do your best work with hybrid work options from both our Calgary office or a remote location.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or a directly related discipline
• 1 or more years of experience in data management, database support, GIS, or a similar role
  • Experience in the environmental sector is strongly preferred, but strong data/database skills with a willingness to learn environmental concepts will be considered
• Understanding and demonstrated experience with relational database organization, design, and functionality
• Proficiency with ESRI mapping and analysis tools and extensions (e.g., ArcGIS Online, Portal, Web Apps, or similar)
• Experience with environmental data management systems, particularly:
  • EQuIS (EarthSoft Environmental Quality Information System), and/or
  • Other environmental databases or laboratory information management systems (LIMS)
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Must be proactive and able to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a high-paced, project-driven environment
• Demonstrated proficiency in both written and oral communication skills, including the ability to work with non-technical stakeholders
• Willingness to learn new tools and technologies, and to support integration between environmental databases, GIS platforms, and client systems

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Familiarity with environmental data types and formats (e.g., laboratory EDDs, field data, monitoring data) is an asset
• Basic to intermediate proficiency with SQL and experience with scripting or automation tools (e.g., Python, R, VBA, or similar) is an asset
• Knowledge of natural sciences and the management of geospatial, analytical, and collected field data is an asset
• Environmental science knowledge would be considered an asset

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

This job posting is for a current addition or replacement opportunity within Parsons.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!