GIS Analyst jobs in Virginia Beach, VA

This Virginia Beach area based Environmental/GIS Analyst is responsible for planning, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of GIS data in accordance with the requirements of various projects as assigned by project managers providing service to public/private clients. Candidates must be knowledgeable with ESRI's software products. Duties include performing simple to complex data analyses to provide Clients with desired deliverables, and include database management, data migration, and mentoring other GIS personnel. This position may be required to work at Client locations to support their GIS program. This position requires the employee to be a U.S. Citizen due to the projects they will be working on.

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Your Role:

 The Environmental/GIS Analyst will play a key role in advancing digital data management initiatives, supporting development of environmental data layers, data dictionaries, field collection guides for electronic data capture in the field, managing relational databases, producing client deliverables (i.e., report figures, data visualizations, and web applications),  Major duties/responsibilities of the position require a working knowledge of and the ability to lead/carry out the following tasks:

•    Advance ongoing digital data management initiative and database migration to EQuIS, along with project setup and field program preparations for data collection. 
•    Produce GIS products and develop surveys using Survey 123 and/or FieldMaps.
•    Leverage GIS data with Microsoft Power BI for data dashboard development. 
•    Develop environmental data layers for a variety of environmental aspects including remediation/restoration information, air emission sources, stormwater outfalls, monitoring wells, contaminated site boundaries, fuel tanks, and other aspects. 
•    Convert pre-existing environmental data to conformance with new data layers.
•    Maintain and refine procedures for data collection, processing, and storage.
•    Meet with clients and project team to define data needs, project requirements, or required outputs.
•    Develop GIS projects consisting of vector, raster, and tabular data.
•    Responsible for the development and production of reports, presentations, maps, and models for a variety of environmental, utility, and water resources projects.
•    Perform quality control on database attributes.
•    Operate and maintain GIS system hardware, software, plotter, digitizer, color printer, and video camera. 

Qualifications:

•    Associate degree in GIS or related program such as cartography, geography, geomatics, surveying or other program focused on geospatial data, plus 5 years of experience is the minimum accepted criteria. 
•    Bachelor’s degree in cartography, geography, geomatics, surveying, or GIS with a minimum of 3 years of experience is required. Additional bachelor’s degrees may be considered provided there is a supporting minor in GIS or completion of a University GIS Certification Program.  
•    Previous GIS project experience with a focus on environmental restoration/remediation projects, site investigations, monitoring well installation, field data collection is highly preferred.

 •    Provide geospatial technical support.
•    Mentor staff/clients with ESRI ArcGIS software, digital data collection, and data management.  
•    Complex database management skills preferred.
•    Strong work ethic and problem-solving skills.
•    Effective time management skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
•    A valid driver’s license in good standing