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United Utilities

GIS Network Specialist

Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
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Job Description

At United Utilities, our purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West. Every day, the quality of our data helps us make better decisions, improve services, and support the millions of customers who rely on us.

We're looking for a GIS Network Specialist to join our team on a permanent secondment. This is an exciting opportunity for a GIS professional who enjoys combining technical expertise, problem solving, and collaboration to ensure our network data remains accurate, connected, and trusted across the business.

Working at the heart of network data management, you'll play a key role in maintaining the integrity of our water network and boundary data, supporting operational teams, and driving improvements that help keep our GIS systems accurate, reliable, and fit for the future.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Maintain and develop water boundaries, District Meter Areas, Discrete Pressure Areas, Water Supply Zones, and asset data within GIS, ensuring accurate network representation, connectivity, and boundary integrity.
  • Collaborate with operational teams and stakeholders to translate network changes into GIS updates and deliver consistent data across GIS, SAP, network models, and other connected systems.
  • Use your expertise in network connectivity, asset relationships, and boundary hierarchies to analyse complex data, identify risks, challenge changes where necessary, and protect data quality.
  • Build strong relationships across the business to promote best practice, drive continuous improvement, and ensure GIS data remains accurate, reliable, and fit for purpose.
  • Provide expert support and guidance to colleagues, including Clean Water Data Maintainers, helping them understand the wider impact of network updates and strengthening GIS knowledge across the team.
  • Support GIS enhancements, system releases, user acceptance testing, and disaster recovery activities to ensure the successful delivery of system changes.
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What You'll Bring

  • Strong knowledge of water networks, water supply boundaries, and their representation within GIS, with advanced GIS skills and experience managing complex network data.
  • Excellent relationship building, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across the business and share technical knowledge with colleagues at all levels.
  • Strong analytical capability, with the confidence to interpret complex and conflicting information and make informed decisions that support data integrity.
  • Well developed planning, organisational, and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high quality outcomes.
  • A collaborative approach, strong team working ethic, and a commitment to maintaining exceptional standards of accuracy, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Why This Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a recognised specialist in an area that is critical to the success of our operations. You'll combine technical expertise with business collaboration, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of data that supports decision making across United Utilities.

If you're passionate about GIS, data quality, and making a real impact on how a major utility operates, this role offers the chance to influence key processes, work with a wide range of stakeholders, and help shape the future of network intelligence.

Benefits:

  • 26 days’ annual leave, rising by one day for each completed holiday year (served up to a maximum of 30days) plus 8 bank holidays
  • Competitive pension with up to 14% employer contribution and life cover
  • Performance related bonus of up to 7.5% plus recognition awards
  • Company funded healthcare plan and wellbeing support including mental health resources and Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to discounts, gym savings, and flexible benefits through MORE Choices
  • Financial wellbeing support including Salary Finance and Wealth at Work
  • Electric vehicle scheme and ShareBuy options
  • Enhanced parental leave

Ready to put your GIS expertise to work on one of the UK's largest water networks? Apply today and help us deliver smarter decisions, stronger operations, and a better future for our customers and communities.

Working at United Utilities

3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

A little flex time

Company employees:

7,500

Gender diversity (m:f):

65:35

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Company benefits

26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Annual bonus – Bonus levels vary depending on your role grade
Buy or sell annual leave – Buy or sell up to 5 days per year
Death in service – covered for 4 times pensionable earnings
Cinema discounts
Employee recognition scheme – Colleague led recognition scheme with monthly winners
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Collaboration spaces
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Employee assistance programme
Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 26 weeks leave at full pay
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Up to 21% combined contributions
Enhanced sick days
Ergonomic workstations
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Further education support – Ongoing learning opportunities through apprenticeships and vocational training
Gym membership – On-site gym at our head office & discounts on local gyms for those not based there
Health cash plan
Health insurance
In house training
Mental health days – 1 wellbeing day per year (in addition to annual leave)
Mental health first aiders
Compassionate leave
Enhanced paternity leave – Up to 4 weeks leave at full pay
Mental health platform access – Offering mental health consultations, health checks, digital fitness resources, and wellbeing support.
On-site gym
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Adoption leave
Private GP service – via our virtual GP - available to you and your loved ones
Professional subscriptions
Referral bonus – of £500
Neonatal leave
Reservist leave – Reservists/Army Reserve with 6 months service are entitled to 10 days paid leave per year to attend the annual training camp.
Restaurant discounts
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Shared parental leave
Will writing
Carer’s leave
On-site childcare – Only at our head office
Income protection