Data Support Specialist

Join Us As We Rise To The Challenge

At KCI, we're building an enduring community that provides unparalleled value to our employee-owners. We make our mark designing and delivering our world-class solutions, so we invest deeply in supporting and developing our team. We reward integrity and commitment, and when we do well, you do well. Our employee's have the freedom to innovate, unlimited growth, a voice that matters, a lifestyle that works, and skin in the game. Achievements are shared and celebrated. As a team, we are motivated to better ourselves, each other, and the world around us.

KCI Technologies, Inc. is a 100% employee-owned engineering, consulting and construction firm serving clients throughout the United States. KCI is recognized as an industry leader, employing cutting-edge technologies, management practices and strategic growth initiatives. Employee ownership fosters an entrepreneurial spirit, encourages technical expertise, and shapes strategic planning.

KCI is currently ranked #56 on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 design firms in the nation.

We offer a competitive compensation package, family friendly benefits, a collaborative working environment, and the training, mentoring and resources you need to advance in your career.

KCI is committed to building a diverse and inclusive staff, and we encourage women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and individuals with disabilities to apply. KCI Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Duties, Responsibilities & Other

As a Data Support Specialist, you will:

1. Interpret engineering plans and related documents to georeference, digitize, and compile attributes of physical features
2. Perform editing tasks including loading, extracting, reconciling, and compiling data
3. Perform data quality control tasks
4. Implement efficient data collection strategies
5. Perform required data cleaning and manipulation prior to analyses
6. Identify and troubleshoot data problems or unexpected results and provide solutions to resolve identified concerns
7. Work within and make appropriate updates to existing schemas
8. Support analysis and presentation of data
9. Identify, extract, clean, transform, validate, and model data using various technologies and languages
10. Collect information in the desktop and field environment
11. Perform field verification utilizing data collection applications
12. Collaborate with a cross-functional team of managers, analysts, engineers, and customers to identify and develop project-specific workflows and how best to present them
13. Work onsite at customer office locations and in the field, as needed
14. Stay current on latest technologies and methods
15. Comply with all KCI policies and procedures
16. Complete other duties as required/assigned

Qualifications

Education, Skills and/or experiences required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Geography, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field is required. Experience may be substituted for degree.
• Knowledgeable of data analysis methods and techniques
• Knowledge and understanding of relational databases
• Familiarity with current data and analytics platforms and tools
• Demonstrated experience to learn quickly and apply new technologies to solve problems
• Ability to develop and maintain deep knowledge of customers, data, business, and markets
• Demonstrated ability to communicate well with colleagues and customers, both written and oral
• Pre-employment drug screening is a condition of employment.

Education, Skills and/or experiences preferred:

• Experience in utilities, facilities, transportation, water, construction, and/or state/local government markets is preferred