Senior GIS/CAD Technician

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Senior GIS/CAD Technician to join their team in Tabuk, KSA. This full-time position involves leading GIS activities and providing specialist geospatial support across various projects. The role focuses on developing, managing, and maintaining GIS databases and ensuring the accuracy and integration of spatial data.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support for projects.
• Develop, manage, and maintain project GIS databases and geodatabases.
• Collect, process, validate, analyze, and visualize spatial data.
• Maintain accurate GIS layers for project infrastructure, utilities, buildings, roads, pavements, drainage, and other assets.
• Integrate survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite, drone, and field data into GIS platforms.
• Ensure all spatial information is correctly georeferenced and aligned with approved project coordinate systems.
• Review GIS data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with project requirements.
• Establish and maintain GIS data standards, naming conventions, metadata, and data structures.
• Perform spatial analysis to support engineering, construction, planning, logistics, and asset management activities.
• Develop and maintain GIS maps, drawings, dashboards, and visualization products.
• Support project teams with spatial queries, analysis, and geospatial information requirements.
• Coordinate with Survey teams to ensure accurate survey control, coordinates, benchmarks, and spatial datasets.
• Coordinate with BIM teams to integrate BIM models and GIS datasets where required.
• Support integration between GIS, BIM, CAD, CDE, and asset management systems.
• Perform data conversion between different GIS, CAD, and engineering formats.
• Manage geospatial data imports, exports, editing, cleaning, and transformation.
• Maintain metadata and ensure traceability of GIS datasets.
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and spatial conflicts.
• Conduct GIS quality assurance and implement corrective actions where required.
• Support development of automated GIS workflows and data management processes.
• Provide technical guidance to junior GIS staff and project teams.
• Prepare GIS reports, maps, dashboards, and technical presentations.
• Maintain GIS registers, data inventories, issue logs, and data quality reports.
• Support digital handover and asset information requirements.
• Ensure GIS information remains current throughout design, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Develop and maintain GIS datasets for airport terminals, airfield facilities, runways, taxiways, aprons, roads, utilities, drainage, and external infrastructure.
• Support management of airport-wide spatial information and infrastructure databases.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in GIS/CAD.
• Demonstrated ability to lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support.
• Proficiency in developing, managing, and maintaining GIS databases and geodatabases.
• Experience with spatial data collection, processing, validation, analysis, and visualization.

Work Environment

This role is based in Tabuk, KSA, and is a full-time position within Parsons. The successful candidate will work within a team that values people, embraces agility, and fosters growth, contributing to an innovative culture.