GIS Specialist

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.

• 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.