Senior GIS Specialist

Job Detail

Organization: Toho Water Authority
Title: Senior GIS Specialist
Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA

Posted: 2025-10-23
Application Deadline: 2025-11-23

Position Description:

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** This posting is for a Senior GIS Specialist or GIS Specialist III Depending on experience **

Senior GIS Specialist ($36.00 - $51.42)
GIS Specialist III ($32.13 - $45.90)
GIS Specialist II ($28.69 - $38.25)
GIS Specialist I ($26.82 - $35.74)
Starting salary will be based on qualifications, education and experience

Toho Water Authority is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior GIS Specialists or GIS Specialist III (Depending on experience) to join our forward-thinking team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced geospatial professional who is passionate about using data, technology, and innovation to drive meaningful change in public infrastructure. As a Senior GIS Specialist at Toho, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our data-driven future—collaborating with cross-functional teams, supporting enterprise-wide initiatives, and integrating geospatial intelligence into decision-making processes that directly impact our community.

You will lead the development and management of complex spatial databases, deliver advanced analytics, and serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders. This is a hands-on, strategic role ideal for professionals ready to take ownership of projects, mentor others, and implement cutting-edge GIS methodologies and technologies. The GIS team at Toho is a hub for innovation, process improvement, and operational excellence—working together to optimize systems, procurement strategies, and performance outcomes across the organization.

If you’re a senior GIS professional looking for a dynamic environment where your expertise will truly make a difference, we encourage you to explore this opportunity and apply.

Essential Functions:
-Keeps the Toho Promise at the forefront of providing support, collaboration, expertise, and action; builds strategic and collaborative relationships in a way that builds confidence and instills trust; provides excellent customer service in achieving objectives and implementing innovative solutions to challenges.
-Reads and interprets a wide variety of documents, such as ordinances, subdivision maps, site plans, records and drawings.
-Produce maps, drawings and data from internal and external requests.
-Ability to interpret legal descriptions and subdivision plans is desirable.
-Digitizes GIS features and geo-rectified images, from construction drawings, as-built plans and record drawings to keep the GIS utility database current.
-Reads easement legal descriptions and deeds.
-Works closely with Operations, Engineering, and Environmental teams to ensure, deliver, and communicate accurate GIS data, updates, and deliverables along with supporting Toho project needs.
-Documents and completes data geospatial projects as assigned by the GIS Manager.
-Performs GIS quality control processes using predefined processes.
-Provides technical direction for GIS initiatives; serves on project teams to provide GIS expertise and input such as Cityworks and Lead and Copper Rule Revisions project teams.
-Performs technical support and analysis using ArcGIS and SQL.
-Troubleshoots scenarios encountered by GIS Specialists.
Mentors and assists staff by providing guidance and direction.
-Maintains GIS feature data sets and analyzes aerial imagery.
-Performs geospatial data analysis, conversion and data maintenance using advanced knowledge in ESRI products.
Configures and creates GIS web maps using ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS online.
-Maintains and evaluates Trimble Connect to determine adequacy for meeting specification for design requirements.
Oversees and coordinates Geographic Information Systems (GIS) vertical and horizontal assets across all of the Toho GIS programs.
-Conducts training, presentations, and demonstrations as needed.
-Performs GIS data capturing, data conversion, and data entry work using ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software; maintains integrity of data base using quality control procedures.
-Coordinates and collaborates with other departments to ensure GIS goals, strategies, and objectives are met and on-track.
-Writes programs, coding, and scripts to automate GIS processes and workflows.
-Maintains spatial geodatabases, geometric networks, and relational databases.
-Coordinates integration of GIS with other Toho applications and databases such as customer billing, meter reading, and asset management.
-Collect GPS coordinates to improve positional accuracy of utility assets using a Trimble GPS device.
Uses ground penetrating radar (GPR) to assist in detecting the position of existing assets.
-Performs geospatial data analysis, conversion and data maintenance using advanced knowledge in ESRI products.
Maintains and leverages Trimble Connect to meet Toho redline design requirements.
-Conducts training, presentations, and demonstrations as needed to provide the appropriate levels of proficiency with GIS.
-All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain that required qualification would be:

Senior GIS Specialist

Bachelor’s or higher-level degree. Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
GIS Specialist III

Bachelor’s or higher-level degree. Any equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
GIS Specialist II

Associate of Science /Associate of Arts degree. Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
GIS Specialist I

A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED issued from an approved GED Administrator
Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience working in a technical, engineering, or computer environment.
Proven success in supporting a utility spatial database.
Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, or a related field.
Proven experience with GIS software including import and export of GIS data.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent and effective communication and teamwork skillsets.
Experience working in public utilities
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Strong ability to work in a team environment and work productively and effectively with stakeholders and customers in various departments.
Strong skills in the methods, techniques, and procedures utilized in the planning, design, maintenance, geocoding, georeferencing, and production of geospatial data.
Best practices and techniques of cartography and map production.
Data analysis and interpretation, including spatial analysis.
Expertise in MS Office, creating and editing documents containing text and images, data entry and management in Excel spreadsheets and Access databases.
Field data collection and using GPR and Trimble GPS technology.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
Ability to review complex record drawings and provide constructive feedback in a timely manner.
Ability to publish web maps to ArcGIS online and ArcGIS server.

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