Intern-College-GIS Systems Intern

Pay Grade

Temporary

Position Summary

The CPS Energy Internship Program is designed to meet the industry’s rapidly changing workforce needs by providing local San Antonio college students with public utility career experience. Through the internship program students are paired with a mentor to acquire meaningful hands-on experience that expands their understanding of how the industry works and exposes them to essential skills they must acquire or develop to be successful. The internship is not only meant for the intern to learn how to perform, but to also understand the rationale behind the strategies that are being used.

The GIS Systems intern has entry experience in Energy/Utilities Field Operations Applications Support – Geographical Information System (GIS), Work Management Information System (WMIS) and Mobile Data System (MDS), application development, configuration management, system administration, hardware support, software support, maintenance, security, troubleshooting. Responsible for solution design, development, integration, and enhancements to meet the business needs and project requirements. Also, responsible for documenting and developing operational procedures and provides end user support. 

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Support Utility Field Operations Applications – Geographical Information System (GIS), Work Management Information System (WMIS) and Mobile Data System (MDS) to provide a safe, reliable, and affordable electric and gas service to the customers. 
• Install, Configure, Test and Implement GIS, WMIS and MDS applications and apply the latest patches in Windows, Linux, and Citrix environments. 
• Assist with development of enterprise applications that will be used across various business units to provide and maintain electric and gas service in a safe and reliable manner. 
• Develop, test, promote the code and configuration from the lower environments to Production with the assistance from other team members. 
• Provide end user application support for Electric and Gas Business Areas. 
• Learn to analyzes and troubleshoots application/system issues and provides resolution. 
• Work with Infrastructure team in GIS, WMIS, and MDS server builds, OS patching, hardware tuning and health monitoring. 
• Work with Database Administrator to set up database backups, patches, refreshes, schema changes, etc. 
• Work with functional teams to integrate GIS, WMIS, and MDS applications with other enterprise applications (e.g., OMS and SAP etc.) 
• Work with business areas to understand their requirements and complete the assigned tasks. 

Minimum Skills

Minimum Knowledge and Abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing mobile and/or web applications. 

• Experience with ESRI’s ArcGIS and Schneider Electric’s ArcFM suite of products including ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcFM Designer, ArcFM Mobile, ArcFM Web and Utility Network. 

• Experience with CGI’s ARM Work Management System. 

• Experience with ABB’s Service Suite for Field Mobility Operations. 

• Experience in integrating with SAP/ERP. 

• Experience with Citrix, Windows and UNIX Shell scripting, Python, Oracle PL/SQL, ArcGIS SDE, ESRI Geometric and Utility Networks. 

Competencies

Minimum Education

Required Certifications

Working Environment

Physical Demands