A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $13 billion and more than 45,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. The GIS Developer I will help support the team through an expanding focus surrounding information automation and data science in support of development of the Enterprise GIS system. This position is part of the GIS Platform Team, which supports advanced spatial-based business intelligence and territory planning applications within route, district, and sales, operations business planning. Supports the research, identification, design, and application of the latest cutting-edge analytical methods to incubate new insights that drive innovative ways to make significant impacts to business results. Leverages spatial based statistical techniques to measure the significance of findings and insights that helps to build adoption in the business.
The GIS Platform Team meets critical business needs by improving responsiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency, through innovative research, defined architectures, planning, and optimal use of GIS and other business information and technology. Enables universal Enterprise data access by linking geospatial and business attributes to design efficient territories, measured service, and business expansion. In this role, you will be focused on supporting and developing GIS automations for Ecolab’s Pest Elimination division, and will work closely with the Sr. GIS Developer and other business stakeholders to gather requirements, design automation solutions, and implement scalable, durable, observable geospatial pipelines designed to support critical business decision-making by high-level stakeholders within the organization.
Your work will help to enable a consistent, coordinated, and proactive GIS-based planning approach by bringing new insights to business operations that increases field service and sales efficiency through the identification and application of spatial-based business intelligence insights. You will work as part of the centralized GIS COE – Platform team and report to the GIS Manager I – COE Platform.
What’s in it For You:
- Opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments
- Ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
- Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best
What You Will Do:
- You will leverage GIS industry knowledge, analytical expertise, and existing core GPS and telematics to provide insights that enable the field team to optimize their service delivery.
- Service delivery optimization and related insights will lead to improved customer satisfaction and retention, employee retention, associate safety, work-life balance and income opportunities.
- Interface directly with the GIS Manager I, Sr. GIS Developer, and Sr. GIS Analysts to support the automation and development of analytical GIS information and processes to help improve route and territory optimizations using multiple criteria, routing models, profiles, and perform other spatial analyses.
- Apply coding, geospatial, statistical, and modeling tools to uncover underlying opportunities.
- Provide and report on statistical findings and summary reporting of GIS analytics.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to provide GIS analysis to support their business needs.
- Support the development of project scopes and objectives through hands-on application, networking, research and use of applicable technology.
- Coach business partners and users in understanding and adopting GIS information and analysis outputs.
- Document methodologies used in the execution of requests and standard reporting.
- Develop and maintain a professional rapport with team members.
- Communicate effectively, both written and oral, with project team and management staff.
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Geography, Planning or related field and 2 years of experience
- Experience working Esri ArcGIS experience using Esri GIS software products involving GIS data development, manipulation, modeling, and analysis.
- 2 years of GIS experience applying advanced analytics, data science, mathematics, and statistics to find insights in data.
- Experience building and maintaining geospatial applications and data pipelines using Python.
- Experience working with relational databases such as SQL, structuring queries and geographic and spatial methods and techniques.
- Experience working with ArcGIS API for Python and/or ArcPy, as well as ArcGIS Pro geoprocessing toolboxes.
- Experience working with general-purpose REST APIs, including authentication and extraction methodologies to ingest large volumes of data (asynchronous programming experience desirable)
- Experience working with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Pycharm and Jupyter Notebook environment.
- Experience working within Software Development Life Cycle surrounding ITIL, DevOps, GitHub, Scrum, and Agile.
- Experience working with Esri Geodatabase.
- Ability to meet project deadlines.
- Ability to perform assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision and develop advanced skills.
- Ability to compile, review and reconcile data for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Ability to prioritize, organize and delegate assignments.
- Proficient in the use of spreadsheets, database, and word-processing applications.
- Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
- No immigration sponsorship available for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in GIS, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics or related field and two to four years of experience.
- 1+ years of Esri ArcGIS Enterprise experience, including Network Analyst tools and functionality including Location-Allocation and VRP, ArcGIS Notebook Server, and/or ArcGIS Enterprise administration experience
- Experience with Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure (Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage Account, Azure Logic App)
- Experience in global mapping projects.
- Experience in business analysis and applied GIS toward territory & route design.
- Ability to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to apply knowledge and develop maps, information, and reporting that support decision-making.
Annual or Hourly Compensation Range
Benefits
Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.
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Potential Customer Requirements Notice
To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:
- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.
- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Geography, Planning or related field
- 2 years of experience with Esri ArcGIS
- Experience applying advanced analytics and data science
- Experience building geospatial applications using Python
- Experience working with SQL and spatial methods
- Experience with ArcGIS API for Python and ArcGIS Pro
- Experience with REST APIs and asynchronous programming
- Experience with IDEs like Visual Studio Code or Pycharm
- Experience within Software Development Life Cycle including ITIL and Agile
- Good written and oral communication skills
Ecolab Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the company provides strong retirement programs, including a 401(k) with employer matching and a pension, alongside options like an employee stock purchase plan. Offerings such as retiree healthcare benefits and diverse investment choices reinforce long-term financial support.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical coverage is broad, with HSA plan options and company contributions, prescription benefits, dental and vision, and virtual care and mental health support. Company-paid wellness programs and income protection (short- and long-term disability, life and accident) further strengthen core coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-focused programs include fertility support, adoption assistance, and paid parental leave, complemented by counseling and resource services. These offerings are positioned as supportive of employee well-being across different life stages.
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What We Do
A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $12 billion and more than 44,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com, or follow us on twitter.com/ecolab, facebook.com/ecolab or instagram.com/ecolab_inc.
