Geospatial Specialist w/ Quantum Spatial (PDX)

Position: Geospatial Specialist
Employer: Quantum Spatial
Location: Portland, OR
Posted on: 08/24/2017
 
For more information:
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=quantuminc&jobId=140276
 
Description
Quantum Spatial is seeking a Geospatial Specialist to work directly with its federal government client in Portland, OR.  The position will assist Natural Resource Data Stewards (scientists and land title administrators) with GIS quality control/quality assurance on corporate GIS database and data migration. Additional responsibilities will include researching user requirements, designing and documenting geospatial data schemas, and automating the migration of spatial data from various internal and external sources.
 
Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance Quality Control: Work with client’s Data Stewards to research and conduct quality assurance audits of geospatial data. The audits include reporting quality control scores, writing Data Improvement Plans, coordinating for correction of errors and securing annual data use approvals on around 100 corporate datasets.
• Data Steward Liaison: Schedule, implement, track, coordinate and document annual needs assessment, quality assurance quality control meetings and custom geospatial data, cartography and analytical projects as specified by the client’s Data Stewards. Serve as a liaison between the Resource Data Stewards and the technical support staff to ensure completion of projects and improvement of data integrity.
• Technical Documentation: Document schema, data requirements, functions, system requirements, workflows, processes, results, metadata, data standards and user guides.
• Data Migration: Work with client’s Data Stewards, partners, and GIS technical staff to migrate disparate and complex relational, geospatial data systems on an ongoing basis.
• Field Office Data Management: Evaluate, develop, and test the system and user requirements for data management to ensure that functions meet the needs of field staff.
• Technical Support: Act as technical support liaison for users.
• Meeting Coordination: Coordinate, schedule, and facilitate meetings. Compile and deliver presentations at meetings and documenting meeting minutes.
• Project and Data Completion: Monitor progress of projects and data edits. Coordinate resolutions to ensure timely completion of assigned projects.
• Analysis and Research: As time and budget allows, conduct spatial patterning and trend research, data editing, tools development for web services or mobile field data collection. Cartographic, data export and graphing skills may be required to display results.

 
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• At least three years’ experience with ESRI ArcGIS version 10.x suite of software.
• Three years’ experience with enterprise multiple-user (versioned) ArcSDE editing .
• Specific skills in GIS using current version of ESRI software on an enterprise system utilizing multiple versions on a Citrix farm.
• Experience with natural resources field data, such as lands, minerals, hazardous materials, invasive species, timber harvests, treatments, fire, hydrology, soils or range vegetation corporate databases.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Good technical writing skills for documents such as software requirements, user guides, entity relationship diagrams, data standards, conceptual, logical and physical spatial relational database design and configuration management documents.
• Specific skills and experience in using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) for ArcGIS to migrate disparate datasets.
• Experience in writing Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) or International Organization for Standardization (ISO) metadata.
• Experience in using ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online web services.
• Three years’ experience interviewing users to assess and document data or system needs.
• Experience in designing and editing geodatabases with related tables to a state or national standard.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a natural resource science (i.e. Biology, Geology, Hydrology, Soil, Range, Forestry).
• Experience in the use of S1 mobile GIS tools or applications for ArcPad and/or Android for field data collection.
• Specific skills and experience in writing and professionally documenting python scripts.

 
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