Description

• Assist with routine performance analysis and maintenance of GIS systems in coordination with company database and system administrators.
• Prepares data, maps, web solutions, and technical documents and presents to internal customers, management and operations personnel.
• 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.
• Keeps abreast of professional and technical developments to maintain and improve knowledge and skills needed for superior job performance.
• Assist in maintenance of data and files on the network server in up-to-date status, following departmental and company policies.
• Planning and Organizing: Identifies and defines clear short-term goals and/or work outcomes that are required to implement strategic goals.
• Assist users with specific problems using ESRI software.
• Assist with interaction of all internal customers that request GIS solutions.
• 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.
• Respond to a wide variety of information and data requests.
• Customer Focus: Takes responsibility for customer relationships, keeping promises and commitments.

Requirements

• Knowledge of accepted GIS principles and practices.
• 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
• Ability to complete projects on time and communicate project status.
• Knowledge of raster datasets and image services.
• Analytical Skills: Verifies assumptions or interpretations by checking with credible sources or through first-hand observation and data-gathering.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to interface with all levels of operations and management, members of other VMC departments.
• 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.
• Experience using 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions.
• General knowledge of coordinate geometry (COGO) and its use in land management.
• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working as a GIS technician or analyst.
• Degree in Geospatial Science or GIS or related GIS experience in Geology or Mining.
• Basic knowledge of geology and/or mining is a plus.
• Ability to conduct field mapping and surveying.
• Proficient in 2D modelling and a basic understanding of 3D modelling.
• Willing to create work products for a variety of internal customers.
• Experience with other GIS or mining software platforms (e.g., Global Mapper, Minesite, Carlson and AutoCAD) is a plus.
• Strong work ethic. Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and adapt to changing priorities.
• Communication Skills: Communicates clearly and listens carefully in an open, candid and consistent manner.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• 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.
• Knowledge of field mapping techniques, surveying, and basic understanding of methods of site exploration.
• Know of land management principles including parcels, metes and bounds, and the public land survey system.
• 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).
• 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.
• Proficient with GPS receivers such as Trimble, EOS and/or Emlid systems.
• Learning and pushing technical limits of software / finding new solutions.
• GISP certified and/or ESRI certified is a plus.
• Knowledge of construction aggregate industry is a plus.

Benefits

• Occasional travel, sometimes requiring overnight stay.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance