Associate - GIS Technician - Petroleum Services Group

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and services are provided by its subsidiaries, including Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and Deloitte Tax LLP. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s subsidiaries are among the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities. Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and people excel.Deloitte is one of the nation's leading professional services firms with nearly 30,000 people in more than 90 US cities. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, Deloitte is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel.  With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, our member firms (including their affiliates) deliver services in four
professional areas: audit, tax, financial advisory services and consulting. They serve over one-half of the world's largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies.
 
Deloitte has an opening for an Associate - GIS Technician, to support the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) team within the Petroleum Services Group, part of the firm's world-wide Energy Practice. For nearly 30 years Petroleum Services (PSG) has been a leading provider of decision support tools, such as our PetroView® GIS, and market intelligence to the upstream petroleum sector. Its professional team of industry trained personnel have geoscience, petroleum engineering, economics, commercial and specialist IT backgrounds and are located primarily in London, Houston, Moscow, Rio and Singapore. This position will be based in Houston, TX.
Responsibilities include the following:
- Assist in consultancy projects for the upstream oil & gas
sector by lending  IT / GIS expertise,  for example, extending  GIS capabilities for clients by customization;
- The loading of regional spatial datasets into both enterprise and personal geodatabases (MapInfo, ArcGIS, ArcSDE);
- Validating and maintaining GIS data from various sources and formats - establishing metadata, spatial integrity and precision of data;
  undertake localized map production in coordination with the GIS team;
- Provide technical support to clients in all aspects of the PetroView® product suite and the underlying GIS platforms (MapInfo and ArcGIS); and
- Helping to raise the profile of PSG's capabilities through client support, dataset production and marketing events/industry conferences.Qualifications and requirements include the following:
- Bachelors degree in Geography/Geology/GIS/Cartography or an equivalent vocational qualification;
- 0 to 2 years professional experience;
- Possess strong MapInfo and ESRI skills and
confident working within challenging technical environments;
- Previous experience working with ArcSDE and geo-processing spatial data, with a strong attention to detail;
- Experience with database related software;
- Exposure to the upstream oil & gas industry will be a benefit, however not essential;
- Strong client focus, technical awareness, communication and IT skills are essential;
- Ability to work independently or as part of a group, strong written and verbal communication skills and professional demeanor are required; and
- Some travel may be requiredDeloitte & Touche USA LLP and its subsidiaries ("the Deloitte US Firms") are equal opportunity employers.Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other’s acts or
omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names “Deloitte,” “Deloitte & Touche,” “Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,” or other related names. Services are provided by the member firms or their subsidiaries or affiliates and not by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein.
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. In the U.S., services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.
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