GPRS is the nation’s largest company dedicated to Intelligently Visualizing the Built World® for clients throughout the U.S. What began with a single ground penetrating radar unit in the trunk of founder and President Matt Aston’s car in 2001 has grown to a $200-million company. Our firm now encompasses every area of construction site and facility safety across virtually every industry. We offer a full suite of project visualization services to help you plan, build, and manage better
PLAN - Prevent rework and delays with accurate as-built documentation, including utility maps, 3D CAD, and BIM models.
Planning & Design Services:
- Reality Capture
- Existing Conditions Documentation
- 3D Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning
- Utility Mapping
- Clash Detection
BUILD - Dig, drill, and build with certainty using precise subsurface and infrastructure data.
Construction Services:
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
- Concrete Scanning
- Utility Locating
- Void & Rebar Mapping
- Drone & Laser Scanning
MANAGE - Access up-to-date, layered facility records in SiteMap™, available 24/7 and securely stored.
Facility & Project Management Services:
- SiteMap™ Platform
- Virtual Floorplan & BIM Integration
- BOMA Heatmaps
- Historical Records
Our Rapid Response Team of Project Managers serve every major U.S. market, and all are trained in Subsurface Investigation Methodology (SIM), the most rigorous and specialized non-destructive investigation training available. There’s a reason we call our field team Project Managers. It is because they are highly trained to provide a consultative approach to your job – to go above and beyond to provide you with the accurate information you need. In many cases, you can have a Project Manager on site within 48 hours, almost anywhere in the country.
We provide complimentary SiteMap® Personal access and free PDF and .KMZ files of every outdoor utility locate, and can craft customized reports, maps, and models to meet your needs, from pre-planning and prefabrication through operation and maintenance.
The GPRS Difference: GPRS has a 99.8% accuracy rate in utility locating and concrete scanning because providing accurate data isn’t just about using the best technology, it’s about making sure the people using it are the best in the business
GPRS Purpose Statement
Our purpose, as an organization, is to provide possibility for our Team Members and Customers by intelligently visualizing the built world.
GPRS Core Values
- Integrity
- Teamwork
- Mutual Respect
- Growth Mindedness
- Safety
Job Summary
The GIS Architect will be part of a high performing team contributing to the architecture, design, development, and support of GPRS’s GIS applications as well as the related data. The successful candidate should enjoy multi-faceted work, being hands on developing solutions, collaborating with team members, and carving out time for deep thinking as they craft solutions. The incumbent will help us dream big as we create new features to wow our customers. Likewise, they will ensure we have the appropriate GIS technologies to support data ingestion and integration from our various service lines into our custom applications, ultimately helping our clients visualize their built world. Finally, they will assist with ensuring we maintain our high-quality standards by working to improving our current processes and triaging issues if required.
Job Goals
- Aid in the GIS data management and if necessary, solution architecting, related to GPRS’ applications.
- Assist with feature design and creation using GIS and related data accumulated from one of GPRS core service lines, customer provided data, or a publicly available data source.
- Provide thought leadership and support regarding GIS specific technologies, tools, and best practices as it relates to the applications the team supports.
Job Responsibilities
The day-to-day responsibilities will vary with no two days likely being the same. Our environment is fun and fast paced. Challenges are ever present and constantly changing. We solve one problem only to face a new one. Here are some examples of what the day to day could look like:
- Develop an integration between our application(s) and a commercial suite like ESRI, creating data portability for our clients.
- Assist with production support challenges, improving our data transformation processes to ensure data quality and data consistency using tools like FME.
- Architect a solution for manipulating and visualizing large data sets or point cloud files, allowing our customers to interact with these artifacts in our custom platform.
- Partner with teams to design and develop a feature that allows us to present a customer’s GIS data for time-series analysis, allowing them to see how their location has changed over time.
