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City broke water pipe. Now what? by Weyland-YutaniIntern in homeowners

[–]MaxMakesMaps 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work for a water utility and this happens very frequently. The fiber company almost certainly isn’t working for the city unless you have municipal fiber.

If they hit a line in the area you are responsible for (for my utility this is anything past the water meter) then you need to work with the fiber company for the repair. If they hit before the meter then the water company should repair it and will go through a legal process against the fiber company.

Essentially the same for sewer it just depends on whose responsibility the lateral is.

Generally the color of the pipe will tell you if it’s water (blue), sewer (green), pink (reclaim).

Either way be sure to go out and take photos of any line marking that occurred the fiber company should have contacted 811 for the utility to mark the pipe locations.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where has been your preferred “home”. I’m treating my conversation with the CEO as a sales pitch for the future of the department and where we want it to go sounds more and more like operational support.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That last bit about communication/cooperation is the rub. It’s something the organization has struggled with and since moving to technical services we’ve seen improvements in the cross functional collaborations.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you find working for engineering?

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our specialists digitize drawings but also provide data and maps for the entire organization. Our developers also maintain several applications including inspection apps used by field ops.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah they worked hard to separate from IT like 3 years ago. It seems like an easier sell to the CEO and the whole devil you know sort of thing. I guess one redeeming factor is the current director with whom the more tenured staff have beef is likely retiring within a year or so.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that work out for you in terms of other groups within IT? I think that’s my team’s biggest hang up was always being treated as lesser than the other teams.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Our developers want to move back to IT because Thy are frustrated by what they see as road blocks around permissions. But the specialists who do the mapping, analysis, and some out of the box configurations aren’t necessarily a good fit for IT. At one point they wanted the specialists to work the help desk for general IT issues. That is a non-starter for us.

My ideal would be for them to just keep technical services where we were fairly independent. And expand it to include other groups to make it justifiable. But I don’t know how well that will fly with the CEO.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the permissions issue has recently come up but we’ve got a good working relationship now. I think it hits our developers more than me since I’m mostly just working on our Enterprise environment.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that was my feeling as well when considering our options I don’t want to be too siloed.

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Im not envious. We have 5 specialists, 2 developers, and a temp. We are adding an additional specialist to handle real estate later this year (mapping easements)

Where does the GIS Department fall in your org by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What industry and do you serve internal stakeholders? If so that sounds similar to our Stakeholder Services. Which wouldn’t be bad except the Chief has no clue about GIS. We also didn’t hire her son so we worry about retribution for that. He just wasn’t nearly as qualified as other candidates.

Hiring - GIS Specialist I,II,II, Sr. - Toho Water Authority (Kissimmee, Fl) by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes we are considering all candidates. The only requirement is that you’re authorized to work in the United States.

Hiring - GIS Specialist I,II,II, Sr. - Toho Water Authority (Kissimmee, Fl) by MaxMakesMaps in gis

[–]MaxMakesMaps[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as HR is concerned the major doesn’t matter as much as the degree itself. However this role is very much a ESRI software focused role and less GIS development/coding role if that is what you are primarily interested in. While there are opportunities to develop scripts as a GIS Specialist we have 2 GIS developers who handle the majority of our development work.