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Date: Jul 11, 2025

Location: San Antonio, TX, US, 78205

Company: CPS Energy

We are engineers, high line workers, power plant managers, accountants, electricians, project coordinators, risk analysts, customer service operators, community representatives, safety and security specialists, communicators, human resources partners, information technology technicians and much, much more. We are 3,500 people committed to enhancing the lives of the communities we serve.  Together, we are powering the growth and success of our community progress every day!

 

Deadline to apply: Open Until filled 

Pay Grade

11

*Qualifications may warrant placement in a different job level*

Position Summary

Use ESRI software for entry-level gas/electric facility edits and data maintenance activities to production GIS database. Use GIS tools to review facility data for spatial accuracy and completeness, perform job reconcile and posting activities. Support internal and external customers with data and mapping requests, as needed and perform basic trouble-shooting support for GIS users.

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Create, edit, analyze and implement facility-level gas and electric facility data updates from job construction sketches, as-built sheets, or mobile applications using standardized CPS symbology and data placement business rules, related to civic improvement, rehab or other existing work.
  • Assist in maintaining schematics, drawings and complex underground designs. 
  • Perform activities to support monthly reports to consistently meet or exceed corporate cycle time metrics.
  • Perform facility-level data attribute and spatial QA/QC checks to validate GIS data integrity.
  • Perform basic and mid-level GIS user support to ensure SDE posting processes continue unimpeded.  
  • Verify and maintain correct asset management-customer premise associations. 
  • Research and verify feature level and/or work location data conflicts and resolution in SDE batch reconcile and post process.
  • Validate SDE requirements, parent/child associations, sub-unit records, connectivity, snapping; missing features, objects or attributes required to support outside client end-user applications.
  • Validate gas line pressure discrepancies, confirm gas service measurement and feature placement consistency.
  • Maintain electrical connectivity, phasing, and voltage discrepancies, looping errors, and confirm that all required facility feature attributes are accurate and complete.
  • Coordinate data updates with outside GIS user-groups to resolve field change requests and/or field-to-map discrepancies. 
  • Perform occasional field verification for GIS facility attribute and placement updates
  • Produce specialty Gas and Electric facility mapping and data product requests for internal and external use.
  • Maintain and ensure successful GIS data exports to critical modeling and outage applications such as ADMS, EMS SCADA, Gas SCADA, CYME and Synergi; support CPS Energy IT groups and other related third-party enterprise GIS software integrations such as CGI ARM Work Manager and SAP. 
  • Follow business rules to improve the quality for export to other systems. 
  • Perform process for data conversion, technical documentation for mapping and construction placement standards and procedures related to data integrity & maintenance. 
     

Minimum Skills

Minimum Knowledge and Abilities

GIS Degree or GIS certification and Experience using ESRI ArcGIS desktop application.
Documented experience digitizing and editing ESRI ArcGIS data, knowledge of using map tools, and application of cartographic principles.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Ability to understand oral and written instructions.
Ability to work under heavy surges in workload and deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Functional GIS experience in the Gas and Electric utility industry.
  • Demonstrated experience to use and develop effective QAQC processes to maintain GIS data integrity requirements.
  • Documented experience working in ESRI Utility Network (UN) or an ESRI enterprise multi-user data ArcGIS environment.

Competencies

Acting as a Champion for Change
Evaluating and Implementing Ideas
Displaying Technical Expertise
Learning Quickly
Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions
Demonstrating Initiative

Minimum Education

High School Diploma or GED

Required Certifications

Working Environment

Indoor work, operating computer, manual dexterity, talking, hearing, repetitive motion. Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer and calculator.
Ability to travel to and from meetings, training sessions or other business related events.

Physical Demands

Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

CPS Energy does not discriminate against applicants or employees. CPS Energy is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of its employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfers and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, veteran status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information or any other protected status. CPS Energy will comply with all laws and regulations.


Nearest Major Market: San Antonio
Job Segment: Gas, Gas Technician, Facilities, Power Plant, Geology, Energy, Operations, Engineering

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