Job Description
Overview
GIS Specialist
Westwood Professional Services, Inc.
Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking a GIS Specialist to join our Renewables GIS team in our Minneapolis office. Westwood has a highly experienced and dynamic team of individuals dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with clients and end users to build innovative GIS solutions using the ArcGIS platform
- Perform complex GIS analysis using Esri's ArcGIS platform
- Provide independent data interpretation while effectively maintaining data documentation.
- Create and modify GIS datasets; manage and maintain legacy GIS datasets; develop and implement GIS-based analyses supporting renewable energy projects
- Produce technically skilled and detailed solutions to include preparing clear, complete, and accurate representations of spatial data using ArcGIS Online and/or ArcGIS Enterprise
- Process data and graphics requests from project team members and anticipate information needs and presentation format as part of renewable energy project workflows
- Work with project stakeholders to develop and maintain new and useful workflows utilizing web-based GIS
- Develop and maintain geospatial data on desktop, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and mobile applications. Ensure data meets appropriate data accuracy and content standards for quality assurance and quality control.
Required Experience
- Must have a bachelor's degree in GIS, geography, or related field with demonstrated capabilities in GIS.
- Hands-on knowledge of ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise
- Demonstrated ability to work with standard GIS datasets and deliverables
- GDB, SHP, SDE (Enterprise), Vector, Raster, Feature Services, etc.
• Experience using ArcGIS Online
- Dashboards, Hub Sites, Webapp Builder, Story Maps, Field Maps, Survey123, etc.
- Experience using Arcade, Python, ModelBuilder, or another common GIS scripting language
- Experience working with different coordinate systems, map projections, and datums
- Familiarity with standard cartographic methods, theories, and principles.
- Ability to independently manage multiple assignments, determine and set job task priorities and work with limited direct supervision.
Preferred Experience
- Previous work in/familiarity with consulting engineers and/or surveyors.
- Experience using AutoCAD and DWG files
- Experience using Google Earth and KMZ files.
- Familiar with LiDAR datasets and usage
- Experience as a consultant
About Westwood Professional Services, Inc. (Westwood)
Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood) was established in 1972 and has since become a leader in many of the markets it serves. Westwood is a full-service, multidiscipline professional engineering firm and serves wind, solar, power delivery, residential and commercial development, and public infrastructure clients and their projects from multiple offices across the U.S.
In 2021, Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at # 4 and #21 respectively on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood two national 2nd place awards for Marketing Excellence. Westwood also ranked consistently higher four years in a row on the Engineering News Record (ENR) list as a leading design firm in the country. The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on award-wining projects nationwide.
Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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