Overview

GIS Specialist

Westwood Professional Services, Inc.

Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking a GIS Specialist to join our team in our Frisco or Fort Worth, TX office locations.

Westwood has a highly experienced and dynamic team of individuals dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Spatial analysis is the dominant portion of the job duties envisioned for this position, but will be balanced with a variety of cartography, field staff support, and research and development.
• 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 civil engineering, planning, landscape architecture, public infrastructure, and survey projects.
• Produce technically skilled and detailed solutions to include preparing clear, complete, and accurate representations of spatial data delivered via hard-copy and / or web-based platforms.
• Process data and graphics requests from project team members and anticipating information needs and presentation format as part of engineering and survey work-flows.
• You will work on land projects, such as residential, commercial, and public infrastructure, to compile available information fro project needs.
• Develop and maintain geospatial data on desktop and mobile applications. Ensure data meets appropriate data accuracy and content standards for quality assurance and quality control.

Required Experience

• Must have a degree in GIS, geography, environmental studies, or related field with demonstrated capabilities in GIS.
• Hands-on knowledge of Esri ArcGIS desktop software, including ArcMap and ArcPro.
• Strong understanding of geodatabases and geodatabase applications.
• Ability to work with vector and raster datasets.
• Experience using ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Portal, or another web mapping system.
• Ability to use and edit shapefiles and geodatabases (personal, file, and enterprise).
• Experience working with different coordinate systems, map projections, and datum’s.
• 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.
• PowerBI
• Experience using AutoCAD and DWG files
• Experience using Google Earth and KMZ files.
• Familiar with LiDAR datasets and usage
• Experience using Python, ModelBuilder or another common GIS scripting language is desirable, as job duties will include creating scripts to streamline frequently performed tasks.

Last updated : 2024-05-09