GIS Analyst

Description

• Keeps abreast of professional and technical developments to maintain and improve knowledge and skills needed for superior job performance.
• Interpersonal Interaction: Quickly establishes rapport with internal and external customers to develop trust that their concerns are heard and responded to promptly.
• May be required to climb slopes, stoop, bend, squat, kneel, crawl or reach above shoulders to accomplish functions of the job.
• Planning and Organizing: Identifies and defines clear short-term goals and/or work outcomes that are required to implement strategic goals.
• Prepares data, maps, web solutions, and technical documents and presents to internal customers, management and operations personnel.
• Customer Focus: Takes responsibility for customer relationships, keeping promises and commitments.
• Design, create, maintain and manage project specific databases related to geology, mining, land management, imagery, and environmental in either file geodatabases and/or SQL Enterprise databases.
• Assist with interaction of all internal customers that request GIS solutions.
• Assist in maintenance of data and files on the network server in up-to-date status, following departmental and company policies.
• Assist users with specific problems using ESRI software.
• Assist with routine performance analysis and maintenance of GIS systems in coordination with company database and system administrators.
• Respond to a wide variety of information and data requests.

Requirements

• Ability to find, create and validate a variety of data (historical and current internal data as well as available external data) to build simple and complex solutions for both surface and subsurface situations.
• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working as a GIS technician or analyst.
• Experience with other GIS or mining software platforms (e.g., Global Mapper, Minesite, Carlson and AutoCAD) is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong work ethic. Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and adapt to changing priorities.
• GISP certified and/or ESRI certified is a plus.
• Proficient in 2D modelling and a basic understanding of 3D modelling.
• High Integrity: Acts with unyielding integrity and honesty in business transactions, promoting company policies and holding self and other employees accountable, keeping promises and commitments.
• Learning and pushing technical limits of software / finding new solutions.
• Knowledge of raster datasets and image services.
• Communication Skills: Communicates clearly and listens carefully in an open, candid and consistent manner.
• Work environment will be both indoors in an office and outside in a quarry or vacant land. The employee will be required to sit working at a desktop computer for several hours a day while in the office. The employee will be required to walk and carry computer field equipment or survey equipment when working outside. The outside setting will expose the employee to changes in weather, temperature, and humidity and will require walking on uneven and sometimes steep ground surfaces
• General knowledge of coordinate geometry (COGO) and its use in land management.
• Basic knowledge of geology and/or mining is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience using the ArcGIS suite of applications including ArcPro, Survey123, Field Maps, Dashboards, Enterprise (Portal and Server), Image Server, and ArcGIS Online (AGO).
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to interface with all levels of operations and management, members of other VMC departments.
• Analytical Skills: Verifies assumptions or interpretations by checking with credible sources or through first-hand observation and data-gathering.
• Knowledge of construction aggregate industry is a plus.
• Position will require ability to operate a motor vehicle within a quarry area as well as on the open road, which would require the use of both hands and feet.
• Willing to create work products for a variety of internal customers.
• Degree in Geospatial Science or GIS or related GIS experience in Geology or Mining.
• Experience using 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions.
• Ability to complete projects on time and communicate project status.
• Know of land management principles including parcels, metes and bounds, and the public land survey system.
• Knowledge of accepted GIS principles and practices.
• Ability to conduct field mapping and surveying.
• Knowledge of field mapping techniques, surveying, and basic understanding of methods of site exploration.
• Proficient with GPS receivers such as Trimble, EOS and/or Emlid systems.

Benefits

• Occasional travel, sometimes requiring overnight stay.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance