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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 Esris 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 bachelors 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 2ndplace 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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Employment Type
Full-Time
