Geophysicist Jr

ABOUT US

Founded in 1866 The Sanborn Map Company (Sanborn) is one of the oldest continuously operating mapping and geospatial information technology companies in the US. Our work is highly visual and our mapped data and applications are an essential part of todays information economy. We serve many industries and government departments and need to communicate effectively with them about our wide range of products and services. We remain at the forefront of the GIS and photogrammetry industry by offering high quality technologically superior products and services backed by the industrys most experienced staff. We are looking for a talented individual to fill this role working in a collaborative environment ready to innovate workflow.

SUMMARY:

The Geophysicist Jr will have a strong technical background in understanding non-seismic geophysics including gravity magnetic and radiometric. You will provide processing services to our client companies helping them achieve and enhance their subsurface objectives using our proven processing and interpretation software. This is an opportunity for you to grow your technical skills and knowledge for what gravity and magnetics can do for geophysics.

LOCATION: Denver/Lakewood CO In office daily

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES

• Support the company and clients through managing acquisition projects by working with a team of professionals to produced high quality gravity magnetic and radiometric datasets with our proven in-house proprietary software.
• Oversees projects to completion with high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Performs quality control on work performed by others within the company and other geophysical contractors focusing on data integrity data quality and professional presentation documents.
• Develops relationships with the customer. Understands technical business and contractual requirements seeing projects through to completion.
• Performs and ensures consistent and professional reporting and presentation styles across all project specifications.
• Demonstrates a detailed understanding of the science behind the software. Expands user knowledge through the application of that software to solve issues or problems with acquired data.
• Conducts projects with regular meetings with the client following the principles and standard methodologies put forth by the company.
• Some weekend work required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

EDUCATION

Bachelors degree in Geophysics or the Geosciences required. Equivalent experience of at least three years may be substituted.

EXPERIENCE

• Excellent communication skills through virtual meetings and producing technical and visual reports using Microsoft office products.
• Good computer skills operating and maintaining Windows PC laptops workstations and FTP server.
• Recommended to have working knowledge of procedural functional Object-Oriented or scripting programing languages such as C/C Python MATLAB Fortran C-shell Bash Perl.
• Recommended to have used Geosoft Global Mapper GMT or other GIS software.
• Must be capable of independently carrying out projects without regular oversight.
• Knowledge of TDEM processing is preferred.

Salary Range: 55K - 85K annual

Applicant must live in the U.S. and be authorized to work in the U.S.

Sanborn offers a comprehensive health and wellness program which includes medical dental vision 401k holiday PTO EAP disability and life insurance benefits.

TO APPLY: Visit our website: under the Careers menu option to apply. We are accepting applications for this position until May 8 2026. Sanborn is a Veteran/Disability Equal Opportunity Employer.