Cartographic Analyst
Cartographic Analyst
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Job Category: Cartographic Analyst Location: St. Louis MO.
Schedule: Fulltime
Travel: None
Shift: Day Job
Potential for Teleworking: No
Clearance Level: Top Secret / SCI
Description:
Nelson Intelligence Solutions prides itself on having the most diverse and accomplished staff you will find in your career. NiS offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform missioncritical work for the federal government. NiS is seeking a Cartographic Analyst to join our growing team. As a Cartographic Analyst the selected candidate will support the Maritime Safety Office (SFH) at the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency Campus West (NCEW) in St. Louis MO. NiS will supply support to SFH to quantitatively improve the mission areas of Digital Nautical Chart Production and Notice to Mariners through contractor support to existing operational activities.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Geography GIS or equivalent military Cartographic training as an Army MOS of 12Y or Marine Corps MOS of 0261 and experience (4 years of experience instead of degree).
Relevant experience in the following: Geospatial Analysis Intelligence Community geospatial data formats ESRI ArcGIS10 and personal Geodatabases intelligence fusion analysis and NGA data products and standards.
Requirements:
- 3 years of relevant experience in which a bachelors degree in a related field may count for up to 4 years of experience.
- Expertise and experience in geography cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.
- Expertise and experience in creating shapefiles geodatabases and features.
- Knowledge of geospatial analysis software suites (GIS commercial software packages such as ArcGIS ERDAS & SocetSet GXP including common office software to include spreadsheets and word processing) used by NGA to accomplish its mission.
- Knowledge of digital cartography image processing geographical information systems (GIS) geospatial production techniques and NGA digital data formats.
- Expertise in research information gathering for the following sources: Primary legal documents that pertain to the delimitation demarcation and maintenance of the boundary including textual descriptions coordinate lists reports and accompanying maps native maps secondary source maps and historic maps used for extraction and comparison. Mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions using digital terrain elevation data sets.
- Expertise in preparing source material for digitizing attribution digitizing boundaries from georeferenced and orthorectified sources applying projection datum and coordinate transformations georeferencing and orthorectifying source materials (maps imagery) and extracting vectors from stereo imagery or elevation data.
Physical Requirements:
Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 80% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC copier fax telephone cell phone etc.
Occasionally required to reach overhead bend and lift objects of up to 10 lbs.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 80% of the time.
NiS Overview NiS is a ServiceDisabled veteranowned business with an emphasis on Federal government opportunities in support of the Department of Defense the Intelligence Community and State and local government. NiS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability protected veteran status race color religious creed national origin citizenship marital status sex sexual orientation/gender identity age or genetic information.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
