What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Analyst II position at Toole Design Group LLC?
Description
Do you enjoy finding ways to tell stories with data? Do you volunteer your time to help people use data to improve walking, bicycling, transit or safety in your community? Do you grow weary of working on the same project day-in, day-out? Does the prospect of a new stack of datasets get you excited? If so, we’re looking for someone like you to join our team as a GIS Analyst II.
Why join Toole Design?
At Toole Design Group, we’re working to create vibrant, multimodal transportation solutions for people of all ages and abilities. Our staff of 185+ planning, engineering, and design professionals are passionate about making a difference in communities large and small. The pace is fast, our team is creative and dynamic, and you will collaborate across disciplines with colleagues on transformative projects across the country.
As a Data Analyst II, you’ll play a key role in research and data development for active transportation projects across North America. You’ll be at the table with our clients, planners, and engineers on projects from start to finish, performing creative analyses that deliver projects to improve safety and create more travel choices allowing people to enjoy places, not just pass through them. Projects range from bicycle and pedestrian master plans to trail corridor studies, crash analyses, vision zero safety plans, and other large-scale, data-intensive planning efforts.
You’ll be great here if:
• You are passionate about the power of geospatial data
• GIS software is second-nature to you
• You feel at home at events like Transportation Camp or data hackathons
• You enjoy a fast-paced work environment with unique challenges every day
• You enjoy collaborating across disciplines and offices to do great work for clients
• You excel at balancing competing demands
• You can communicate the results of your analysis to a variety of audiences
• You deliver high-quality work on time and on-budget
We’ll offer you:
• The opportunity to use your data skill to improve communities across North America
• Competitive salary and industry-best benefits
• A workplace that practices what it preaches, with engaged colleagues and financial incentives to bike, walk, and use transit on your commute
About our Minneapolis office:
Toole Design’s Minneapolis office is downtown in the North Loop neighborhood in the historic Colonial Warehouse building, former headquarters for the city’s streetcar company. Our windows overlook the Cedar Lake Trail which most of our staff use to bike to work each day, sometimes with a canine in tow (our building is dog-friendly). You will also find Minneapolis staff conducting “walking meetings” to the nearby Mississippi River, taking transit nearly anywhere in the region, or hopping on bike share to attend meetings. Our Minneapolis team is known for its collaborative engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who are committed to a culture of innovation, excellence, and fun.
How to Apply:
If you would like to be considered as a potential candidate for this position, please click "Apply for this Job" below or visit our careers page http://www.tooledesign.com/careers and select the corresponding position. Toole Design Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer) and encourages women and minorities to apply. No phone calls, please. For more information about Toole Design Group, visit our website (www.tooledesign.com), follow us on Twitter (@tooledesign), or like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/TooleDesignGroup).
Requirements
• 3+ years of experience
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Geography, GIS, Computer Science, Urban Planning or a related field
• Programming experience, including Python & PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with GIS analysis software, including ArcGIS, QGIS, and PostGIS
• Understanding of planning analysis methods
• Ability to manage large datasets and workflows
• Knowledge of standard planning and engineering data types and formats, including but not limited to: GIS network data (including OpenStreetMap), time-series data, GPS data, and census datasets
Preferred skills:
• Linux operations
• Statistical analysis and/or machine learning
• Web development experience