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GIS Analyst

Canacre is an infrastructure development consulting firm specializing in land acquisition, environmental services, and project management for large-scale energy and transportation projects across North America.

Canacre

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Canacre’s core services focus on leadership in Environment and Land services throughout the project lifecycle. At Canacre, we emphasize continuous development and growth. Our commitment to investing in industry knowledge and the expertise of our teams sets us apart. Our goals are to provide technical leadership for greater regulatory understanding and certainty and to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders, mitigating tomorrow’s environment, land and right-of-way risks today.
At Canacre, we act with honesty and integrity within a culture where trust, collaboration, and teamwork flourish. We commit to diversity, inclusivity and the celebration of successes. Our vision is to foster an environment that promotes inspired and empowered team members who make an impact.
The GIS Analyst is responsible for maintaining high‑quality, accurate, and current GIS data records within Irth and Avangrid’s Real Estate ArcGIS Enterprise platforms, ensuring seamless spatial and tabular data alignment between Irth and ArcGIS Enterprise. This role performs advanced GIS data management, generation, spatial analysis, map creation, reporting, and workflow support to ensure that land, assets, and operational datasets are reliable and consistent across systems. The Analyst serves as a technical resource with a key role in validating, reconciling, and troubleshooting data discrepancies across systems. This position requires strong analytical skills, proficiency with enterprise GIS platforms, and experience supporting operational work management or land management systems. The Analyst will maintain and publish datasets between the ArcGIS Platform and the Irth Platform.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Irth GIS Data Ownership
  • Maintain and update all GIS layers and attribute data within Irth and the ArcGIS Enterprise, ensuring compliance with internal data standards and operational requirements.
  • Perform QA/QC on spatial and tabular data before and after sync events between Irth and ArcGIS.
  • Monitor data workflows, identify errors, and implement corrective actions to ensure Irth remains the authoritative operational dataset.
ArcGIS Integration & Data Consistency
  • Maintain alignment between Irth GIS layers and ArcGIS Enterprise/ArcGIS Online datasets.
  • Reconcile discrepancies between systems, including geometry mismatches, attribute conflicts, and schema variations.
  • Support periodic or scheduled synchronization processes, ensuring that all data transfers meet accuracy and completeness standards.
GIS & Data Management
  • Develop, revise, and maintain GIS datasets, maps, sketches, and technical drawings.
  • Capture, edit, and integrate spatial data including land parcels, environmental layers, easements, field locations, and operational assets.
  • Interpret field notes, marked drawings, digital sketches, and communications to update GIS layers.
Ensure that all spatial datasets reflect real‑world field conditions and remain consistent across systems.
Analysis, Reporting & Visualization
  • Create high‑quality web maps, diagrams, and data visualizations in support of operations, engineering, planning, and land management functions.
  • Support management with land, asset, and resource analysis using GIS tools and spatial techniques.
Technical Leadership & Support
  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on GIS functions within Irth and related systems.
  • Train other internal users on data standards, GIS tools, and workflows.
Provide advanced user support for GIS-related workflows, troubleshooting issues related to mapping, data entry, or system functionality
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
  • 3–7 years of professional GIS experience, preferably in utilities, energy, telecommunications, or land management.
  • Strong proficiency in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, ArcGIS Online, and spatial data management workflows.
  • Experience working with or supporting work management systems such as Irth (preferred) or similar platforms.
  • Knowledge of cartography, spatial analysis techniques, GPS workflows, and data integration practices.
  • Ability to interpret field notes, survey documents, parcel descriptions, and engineering sketches.
  • Familiarity with Municipal Parcel boundary definitions and landowner information.

At Canacre, our benefits program is one of the ways in which we reinforce the value we place on employees and the role they play in helping us achieve our goals. Canacre offers comprehensive health and dental coverage, paid time off, and disability insurance. Other benefits include a RRSP employer matching program, Employee Assistance Program, flexible work arrangement and a variety of wellness programs.
Canacre is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse workforce. Canacre complies with federal and state/provincial law governing non-discrimination in employment practices.
Given the volume of applications we typically receive, we are unable to respond to all applicants, however, you will be contacted if your experience is a suitable match with one of our upcoming projects.
At Canacre, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of employment practices in each jurisdiction we operate in. We ensure that all employees are fairly compensated for their work, in accordance with the provisions outlined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Canada Labour Code.

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Canacre is a consulting company specializing in services that support the successful development of large-scale infrastructure projects across Canada and the United States. Since 2010, Canacre has cultivated a team of professionals with unmatched expertise in land and right-of-way, environment, project management, GIS and geomatics, and project development services. The company navigates complex projects through the regulatory process with effective transitions to construction, balancing stakeholder needs with best management practices to ensure the right outcomes for partners.

Over the last decade, Canacre's team has amassed impressive accomplishments that have supported multiple successful projects in the pipeline, renewable energy, distributed energy, transmission, telecommunications, transportation, and public works sectors. In July 2021, Canacre became a Quanta Services Company, providing expanded corporate capacity and expertise to facilitate the delivery of strategic land and project services to a wider client base throughout North America. Canacre aims to function as a true project partner, believing that their partners' successes are their successes.

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RRSP/401K employer matching program to help employees save for retirement

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