GIS Manager

About CORE

CORE Electric Cooperative is the largest member-owned electric distribution cooperative in Colorado dedicated to providing reliable, affordable, clean, and safe electric service to our communities.

With a commitment to innovation and member satisfaction, we strive to meet the evolving needs of our members while maintaining the highest standards of service excellence.

Job Summary 

 

The GIS Manager provides strategic, technical, and administrative leadership for CORE Electric Cooperative’s Geographic Information System program.

This position oversees GIS operations, personnel, spatial data governance, enterprise applications, system integrations, projects, vendors, and the department budget.

Working collaboratively with Engineering, Operations, Information Technology, Member Services, and other business areas, the GIS Manager ensures GIS data and technology effectively support electric system planning, design, construction, operations, outage response, asset management, and organizational decision-making.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities


* Provides direct or indirect supervision to the GIS staff and any other assigned GIS employees, contractors, or consultants.


* Leads the GIS department and establishes goals, priorities, performance expectations, and work plans aligned with organizational objectives.


* Assigns work, supervises employees, and supports employee development through coaching, feedback, training, and performance management.


* Develops and manages the GIS department budget, contracts, software licensing, vendors, consultants, and technology investments.


* Represents GIS on cross-functional initiatives involving Engineering, Operations, Information Technology, Member Services, and organizational leadership.


* Plans and manages complex GIS projects, including platform upgrades, data migrations, system integrations, application enhancements, and modernization initiatives.


* Oversees the administration, configuration, maintenance, performance, and support of enterprise GIS applications, databases, web maps, mobile solutions, dashboards, and related technologies.


* Establishes standards and controls for spatial data creation, maintenance, accuracy, security, availability, integration, distribution, and retention.


* Reviews GIS data, maps, analyses, applications, and other work products for quality and compliance with established standards.


* Directs GIS integration with customer information, outage management, advanced distribution management, asset management, work management, and utility design systems.


* Oversees the development and maintenance of GIS applications, scripts, automated workflows, interfaces, APIs, and data exchange processes.


* Performs or directs complex spatial analyses and the development of specialized maps, reports, dashboards, and decision-support tools.


* Provides technical leadership and user support for GIS applicatio...