16 July 2025

Northern England/Scotland – Hybrid

Permanent - Full Time 37 hrs
Competitive Salary + Car/Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits

Summary

This role would be ideal for a professional with experience in the utility or land management sectors. You must beproactive, self-motivated, have excellent communication skills and be able to work effectively to deadlines. A strong work ethic and the ability to forward plan to identify and solve problems before they arise are key skills for this position. It is vital that you can work effectively both within a team and individually, be flexible in your approach and have excellent organisational skills.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Provide mapping support using QGIS, ESRI and other software packages to all business units within Freedom and NG Bailey, including Land Referencing, Design, Consents and Environmental work streams.
• Analysis of data from numerous sources for both small and large scale projects.
• Production of drawings and data visualisation for the wider team.
• Audit/quality check the work carried out by other staff within the team, provide feedback and report findings.
• Effectively manage workload to deliver to time, cost and quality targets.
• To support the wider business to become competent users of the various ESRI systems, provide ongoing support and training to other team members on ESRI products and applications.
• Use our ESRI and QGIS Systems with the wider teams to produce GIS solutions such as applications, mobile surveys and automated processes.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of our products and applications, staying updated with the latest advancements and integrating them into our workflows.

Essential skills and attributes

• Experience using ESRI, QGIS, and other GIS programmes to work with spatial data and creating visualisations.
• Experience with GIS project development from initial idea through to handover.
• Good knowledge of data management techniques.
• Experience working in SQL
• Attention to detail is paramount; candidates must be able to produce outputs which meet strict QA guidelines.
• Experience of working with metadata standards.
• Proactive with a good work ethic is a must.
• Experience working to deadlines.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills (some client facing work and working with internal staff outside of the GIS Team will be required).

Desirable but not essential:

• Ability to develop routines to capture and analyse geographical data, automation, and Geo-Processing including Python.
• Experience of working with mobile data capture apps.
• Experience working with webmaps and coding languages such as Python and SQL.
• Experience using AutoCAD software packages.
• Experience working with renewables and environmental data.
• Familiarity with analysis of data captured through various platforms.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Candidates will ideally be educated to degree level or working towards in a relevant geographical discipline or other with a GIS emphasis (although other qualifications and/or commercial experience will be considered).
• Over 2 years of experience within the utility industry focusing or creating Geospatial Solutions.
• Experience of working with ESRI online and mobile platforms.

We continuously evolve our benefits to attract and retain great people. Here’s what you can expect:

• Salary Sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Up to 25 days holidays (Buy & Sell option) plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)

Next Steps:

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notic e. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met. About Us

Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies

Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be