Seniior GIS Specialist:
EarthStream Global are urgenlty looking for a Senior GIS Specialist to join our client based in Saudi Arabia.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Fully demonstrates expertise with Esri's ArcGIS for Desktop software suite and related extensions
- Experience in performing geospatial modeling, analysis, and data manipulation using ArcGIS
- Experience of developing GIS web applications and deploying them on ArcGIS platform
- Experience with and interest in keeping up with advancing and emerging technologies, e.g., object detection, machine learning, lidar, multispectral imagery, Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS)/drones, GPS surveying, etc
- Experience in analyzing geo-spatial data for geographic statistics to be incorporated into documents and reports
- Experience compiling geographic data from a variety of sources including censuses, field observation, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, tabular data, databases, and existing maps
- Able to provide guidance for non-GIS staff pertaining to its correct usage
- Fully demonstrates expertise with a variety of geoprocessing tools
- Able to identify and solve technical problems independently with rapid turnaround times
- Produces spatial and non-spatial data while ensuring technical accuracy and logical consistency in processing and output
- Able to manage large amounts of spatial and non-spatial information in accordance with company and industry standards
- Demonstrates expertise working with a variety of coordinate systems
- Demonstrates expertise working with vector and raster data sets
- Demonstrates proficiency in converting data between GIS-related and CAD-related file formats
- Comfortable working with distributed geodatabases
- Ensuring GIS data submission quality levels and deadlines are met
- Facilitating and supporting the integration of BIM and GIS applications
- Merging the portfolio/program-wide GIS data to a single source of truth
- Integrate multiple data sources accessible thru the GIS portal
- Use GIS data for reporting, dashboarding and trending
- Perform Quality Assurance Checks on suppliers to ensure sub-contractors' deliverables meet client GIS requirement
- Provide technical expertise in satellite imagery, GIS, statistics, and programming to develop novel software imaging solutions that provide non-subjective, quantitative data to growers
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in GIS, Geography, Planning, Environmental Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of professional experience, preferably with an environmental consulting organization
- GISP, ESRI Technical Certification(s) - preferred but not mandatory
- Experience with ENVI and/or similar software tools
- Ability to code/script, such as in Python, MATLAB, R, and/or IDL
- Remote sensing capabilities
