Senior GIS/CAD Technician

About the Role

Parsons Corporation 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, ensuring the accurate management and integration of spatial data.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead GIS activities and provide specialist geospatial support throughout 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 and CAD related roles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead GIS activities and provide specialized geospatial support.
• Proficiency in developing, managing, and maintaining GIS databases and geodatabases.
• Experience with spatial data collection, processing, validation, analysis, and visualization.
• Familiarity with integrating various data sources including survey, CAD, BIM, GPS, satellite, and drone data.

Work Location

This position is based in Tabuk, KSA, and is a full-time role within the Parsons Corporation team.