Description
gis leadership
web mapping
field gis
project management
map production
spatial analysis
This role offers the opportunity to take responsibility for GIS deliverables, expand your technical expertise, and have a meaningful impact on natural and cultural resources management across the Southwest Subregion.
As an Assistant Project GIS Specialist, you will transform complex data into actionable insights and high-quality maps that support project teams and clients. You will leverage your GIS expertise, analytical skills, and project experience to deliver impactful products while maintaining high standards and collaborating closely with your team.
- Provide Technical Leadership: Serve as a go-to resource for GIS solutions, troubleshoot complex problems, perform QA/QC, and build tools or scripts to streamline workflows.
- Collaborate and Mentor: Work closely with project teams, communicate priorities, and occasionally mentor junior staff to support project success and team growth.
- Integrate Field and Web GIS: Build and maintain web maps and apps via ArcGIS Online; support field operations using ArcGIS Field Maps, Survey123, and other mobile platforms.
- Lead GIS Projects: Manage small to moderately sized GIS projects from start to finish, coordinating with subject matter experts and team leads to deliver accurate, timely results.
- Create High-Quality Maps: Develop cartographic-quality maps and report figures—from field-ready guides to complex analytical products—following SWCA or client standards.
- Supporting field operations using ArcGIS Field Maps, Survey123, or similar tools.
- Analyze and Manage Data: Organize, maintain, and analyze large, complex datasets; perform geoprocessing, spatial analysis, modeling, and database design to meet technical and regulatory needs.
Requirements
arcgis pro
python
database design
gis degree
regulatory
3+ years
- Archaeology or cultural resources experience with the ability to meet SOI Professional Standards for Archaeology and/or meet the Nevada SHPO requirements to access NVCRIS data.
- QA/QC experience and familiarity with workflow automation using Python, SQL, or similar tools.
- Previous experience as a GIS professional in the environmental or cultural resource management industry highly preferred
- Experience managing large, complex databases, including designing schemas and domains.
- Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Environmental Science, Biology, Archaeology, or a related field with an emphasis in GIS (or GIS certificate).
- Active involvement in technical or professional GIS organizations.
- Experience in environmental consulting projects involving regulatory compliance or federal land management agencies such as the BLM, USGS, USFWS, USACE, etc.
- Demonstrated experience with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, geoprocessing, spatial analysis, and cartographic design.
- At least three (3) years of post-education GIS experience in a professional setting.
- GIS project management experience and the ability to work independently on complex tasks.
Benefits
An employee in this Nevada-based position can expect a rate between $27.56/hour to $35.36/hour, depending on experience, geographic locations, client requirements where applicable, and other factors permitted by law. Employees in this position are eligible for consideration for SWCA’s annual bonus program, which provides awards based on individual and organizational performance. To review additional benefits associated with this position, click here: https://www.swca.com/careers/benefits
SWCA is committed to salary equity and salary transparency for all its employees. In alignment with this commitment, SWCA posts good-faith pay ranges in all its advertised job postings to promote pay equity and transparency.
At SWCA, we support our team members in developing their careers to make them leaders in their industry. Our Career Landscape initiative is a process and guide designed to help develop chart rewarding career paths for employees at SWCA. We encourage professional conference attendance, internal and external professional development and training programs, education reimbursement, a Science and Leadership Program, and bonuses for publications meeting certain criteria. All regular status employees are eligible to participate in SWCA medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, wellness, life and disability plans, and are eligible to participate in the SWCA 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust.
This position is available for hybrid work arrangements in Las Vegas, NV or Reno, NV, with consideration for highly qualified remote candidates elsewhere in Nevada or nearby locations. This is an hourly, regular (with benefits), position.
Training + Development
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