Are you looking for a role where you can explore new ways of working with geospatial and digital technologies? Where you can work alongside an award-winning team of experts who are driving innovation across Stantec and our UK Water clients? If so, then our Principal Geospatial Consultant opportunity could be just for you.
This opportunity is to be based from our Newcastle office, with hybrid working allowing for a combination of in-office and home working. Our Newcastle office is based on the Quayside, around 15 minutes walk from Newcastle train station.
As a Principal Geospatial Consultant, you will lead a local team of geospatial analysts, looking to develop and apply our range of digital offerings to our clients and across our project caseload - whether this be data visualisation, multi-criteria analysis, automation and efficiency, or best practice data management.
You will be working in a consultancy environment, understanding the needs of our water sector clients, and challenging our teams to innovate and provide data driven approaches to our projects. In the role of Principal Geospatial Consultant, you will need to be proactive and driven, looking to develop our service offerings, and mentor our early career colleagues.
About you
To be successful in this role you will most likely be an experienced GIS/Data Analyst, Geospatial Data Engineer/Analyst or similar; with good knowledge of geospatial concepts and data processing techniques within a range software and tools (including Esri ArcGIS, FME, or PowerBI).
You will have demonstrated technical and team leadership, and have a passion for developing new technical offerings and developing a team around you. Due to the nature of this role any prior experience within the utility sectors, especially Water, would be beneficial.
What you'll need:
The successful candidate will be a key member of the Geospatial discipline, supported by a national team of experts and supported in the drive to innovate across our internal teams and our client offerings.