Desired Skills and Experience:
Principal Duties:
- The incumbent will personally perform and be responsible for the creation, modification, and quality control of essential geospatial infrastructure data for company wide use for a variety of critical applications, including the analysis and assembly of geospatial data utilized to create PTC compliant Subdivision Files.
- The incumbent will utilize a variety of GIS software tools to perform topology corrections and make geometric modification as part of the data quality review and acceptance process.
- Assist in the creation, validation, modification, and quality control of essential geospatial infrastructure data for company wide use for a variety of critical applications
- The incumbent will be called upon to work with other involved groups and departments in a collaborative manner to help develop efficient workflows which fully utilize and properly reflect the technical skill sets of the Geospatial Data Group toward the Enterprise GIS goals.
- Demonstrate proficiency of GIS specific software to solve problems and maximize efficiency
- Adopt practical railroad knowledge into a functioning theoretical, digital system
- Work with programmers to build relevant and user accessible GIS tools
- Create informative and accurate maps that assist readers in visualizing the full project scope
- Computer programming experience in C#/.net or Python is desired but not a requirement
Education Preferences:
- Bachelor’s Degree – required
- Graduate Degree – preferred
Preferred Major:
- GIS
- Other relevant major with GIS Certificate
Job Related Experience:
Preferred Level: 2+ years
Skills and Abilities:
- ESRI ArcGIS Desktop
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Understanding of database fundamentals
- Detail oriented
- Analytical thinking
- Multi-tasking
- Strong initiative