Senior GIS Specialist

Job Description

Overview / Responsibilities
Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior GIS Specialist to work with our team in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

– 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