Geographer

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Geographer 3 plays a pivotal role in leveraging expertise to enhance the maintenance, operation, and development of the organization’s asset inventory and equipment ratings. The role provides advanced professional GIS services, including data capture, storage, and analytical techniques within the ESRI software platform, with a particular focus on the Utility Network.

Responsibilities include generating visual displays, performing complex spatial analyses, maintaining and developing system scripts, and producing detailed reports across a diverse range of geographic assets.
This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.

Pay range: $39.19 - $55.99

• Paid holidays: 11
• PTO: Starting at 10 days
• Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date)
• EAP: Employee Assistance Program
• Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%)
• Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Life Balance Discount Program

• Provide SDE GIS database administration and management functions within the scope and authority of non-IT GIS personnel to validate optimal database integrity and performance.
• Design and implement advanced geo-processing scripts that automate data analysis, integration, reporting, and visualization of 3D GIS products using industry and organizational standards primarily utilizing ESRI ArcGIS, and Python software platforms.
• Design, implement, and sustain sophisticated network models of the transmission grid within the ESRI Utility Network environment. Defining schema, establishing connectivity rules, configuring asset packages, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of geometric and attribute representations for transmission assets.
• Work with IT GIS staff to refine and develop GIS data editing workflows that utilize specifically designed tools and software extensions that incorporate industry standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain documentation of data management and workflow processes, procedures and tools to provide training and guidance for managing an enterprise GIS database utilizing multi-user versioned editing workflows.
• Participate in the research, development, and recommendation of automated geospatial analytical approaches in search of problem-solving solutions; assist with the implementation of assigned organization-approved recommendations.
• With oversight and approval from the Manager:
• Configure and maintain data within ESRI applications.
• Develop systematic quality assurance and control (QA/QC) methods and workflows, using Python scripts or other automated techniques to provide review of corporate transmission asset GIS data.
• Create advanced geoprocessing scripts and/or models to assist in data analysis, integration, visualization, and automation of GIS product development.
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of an enterprise-wide set of authoritative ArcGIS feature layers that include standard symbology, database query statements, and current metadata.
• Design and maintain databases and verify data quality through the use of automated and manual techniques to enter, edit, and process data sets.
• Support the timely delivery of data and map products between Geomatics and other organizational units for the design, acquisition, and construction of transmission facilities.
• Develop records and data management processes, procedures, and tools for clients and provide guidance for managing these records and systems.
• Prepare and maintain GIS datasets for external data sharing agreements and requests.
• Give demonstrations, presentations, and produce documents on GIS work performed by the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in geography, cartography, natural resources, landscape architecture, environmental, urban or regional planning, with a strong emphasis on computer assisted spatial…