Description
Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking a GIS Specialist to join our Renewables GIS team in our Minneapolis office. Westwood has a highly experienced and dynamic team of individuals dedicated to providing high-level professional services to our clients.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with clients and end users to build innovative GIS solutions using the ArcGIS platform
- Perform complex GIS analysis using Esri's ArcGIS platform
- Provide independent data interpretation while effectively maintaining data documentation.
- Create and modify GIS datasets; manage and maintain legacy GIS datasets; develop and implement GIS-based analyses supporting renewable energy projects
- Produce technically skilled and detailed solutions to include preparing clear, complete, and accurate representations of spatial data using ArcGIS Online and/or ArcGIS Enterprise
- Process data and graphics requests from project team members and anticipate information needs and presentation format as part of renewable energy project workflows
- Work with project stakeholders to develop and maintain new and useful workflows utilizing web-based GIS
- Develop and maintain geospatial data on desktop, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and mobile applications. Ensure data meets appropriate data accuracy and content standards for quality assurance and quality control.
Requirements
- Must have a bachelor’s degree in GIS, geography, or related field with demonstrated capabilities in GIS.
- Hands-on knowledge of ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise
- Demonstrated ability to work with standard GIS datasets and deliverables
- GDB, SHP, SDE (Enterprise), Vector, Raster, Feature Services, etc.
- Experience using ArcGIS Online
- Dashboards, Hub Sites, Webapp Builder, Story Maps, Field Maps, Survey123, etc.
- Experience using Arcade, Python, ModelBuilder, or another common GIS scripting language
- Experience working with different coordinate systems, map projections, and datums
- Familiarity with standard cartographic methods, theories, and principles.
- Ability to independently manage multiple assignments, determine and set job task priorities and work with limited direct supervision.