GIS Network Advisor

GIS Network Advisor | Warrington | Hybrid | £34,890

At United Utilities, accurate and reliable network data is essential to delivering great service to millions of customers every day. We're looking for a detail-oriented GIS Network Advisor to join our team and help ensure the quality, integrity and performance of the geographical information that underpins our operations.

You may have recently seen us recruiting for this role. Due to an internal promotion and the continued importance of GIS capability across our business, we're pleased to be offering another opportunity to join the team. We're looking for a GIS professional who enjoys combining technical expertise with collaborative problem-solving and takes pride in maintaining high-quality network data that supports critical business decisions.

In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining accurate network boundaries, asset connectivity and GIS records, ensuring our data reflects the real-world network and supports informed decision-making across the business.

Working closely with operational teams, engineers and technical specialists, you'll help resolve complex network queries, enhance data quality and support the ongoing development of our GIS systems and processes. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise while contributing to the systems and data that help keep essential services running smoothly for millions of customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Maintain and manage water boundaries, District Metered Areas (DMA), Discreet Pressure Areas (DPA) and Water Supply Zones (WSZ) within GIS, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Translate network and asset changes from operational teams into accurate and timely GIS updates.
• Investigate complex data queries and collaborate with stakeholders across the business to resolve issues relating to GIS network representation.
• Provide first line GIS support, helping colleagues understand and utilise network boundaries and asset information effectively.
• Partner with stakeholders to continuously improve GIS processes and ensure data outputs meet operational and business requirements.
• Produce, analyse and interpret a range of reports to support data quality, performance monitoring and operational decision making.
• Work closely with Water Data Maintainers to understand the impact of network updates and safeguard the integrity of water boundary information.
• Support system enhancements, maintenance releases and future developments through activities including user acceptance testing and disaster recovery testing.
• Deliver guidance, support and training to both new and existing team members, helping build GIS capability across the business.

What You'll Bring

• Advanced GIS expertise, with experience of ArcGIS highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and explain GIS concepts to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to assess, challenge and manage conflicting information to support informed decision making.
• Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high quality, accurate outputs.
• A collaborative approach, with a proven ability to work effectively across teams and contribute to a positive team environment.
• Understanding of water networks and water supply boundary hierarchies, including their GIS representation and business application would be advantageous

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to be part of a team that sits at the heart of how United Utilities manages and understands its network. Your expertise will directly contribute to maintaining critical business data, improving operational efficiency and supporting the delivery of essential services to customers across the region.

If you're passionate about GIS, enjoy solving complex data challenges and want to make a real impact within a leading utilities organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

• 26 days’ annual leave, rising by one day for each completed holiday year (served up to a maximum of 30days) plus 8 bank holidays
• Competitive pension with up to 14% employer contribution and life cover
• Performance related bonus of up to 7.5% plus recognition awards
• Company funded healthcare plan and wellbeing support including mental health resources and Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to discounts, gym savings, and flexible benefits through MORE Choices
• Financial wellbeing support including Salary Finance and Wealth at Work
• Electric vehicle scheme and ShareBuy options
• Enhanced parental leave

Join us and use your GIS expertise to ensure the accuracy, integrity and intelligence of the network data that supports millions of customers every day.

Note: At United Utilities, we believe people are more than just applications. Every application is personally reviewed by our recruitment team and hiring manager. We do not use AI or automated screening tools to assess applications.