GIS Specialist/Analyst

Job Description

• Create maps and graphs, using GIS software and related equipment.
• Create, manage, and monitor map services using GIS software.
• Meet with users to define data needs and required outputs.
• Conduct research to locate and obtain existing data.
• Gather, analyze, and integrate spatial data.
• Compile geographic data from a variety of sources.
• Analyze spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports.
• Design and update feature classes for enterprise data, applying knowledge of spatial feature representations.
• Design and manage connections between GIS data stored in the enterprise GIS database and business attribute information stored in source systems of record.
• Create new map data through digitization or by direct input of coordinate information using the principles of cartography including coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.
• Analyze geographic relationships among varying types of data.
• Prepare metadata and other documentation.
• Operate and maintain GIS system hardware, software, large format printer, color printer, and remote sensing devices.
• Move, copy, delete, and add files, drawings, and maps to output reports in hard copy or electronic transfer.
• Present information to users and answer questions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Geography - Knowledge of various methods for describing the location and distribution of land, sea, and air masses including their physical locations, relationships, and characteristics.
• Communication, Written, Oral, and Cartographic - The ability to convey GIS/spatial information to non-GIS/technical people.
• Analytical Skills - The ability to solve problems using the GIS suite of tools.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Information Gathering - Knowing how to find information and identify essential information, and validate the information.
• Information Ordering - The ability to correctly follow a given rule or set of rules in order to arrange things or actions in a certain order.
• Computer Science – Knowledge about the use and development of computer programs to solve problems.
• Systems Evaluation - Looking at many indicators of system performance, taking into account their accuracy.

If you are available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP at 734-224-6628

Thanks & Regards,

Raju