GIS Analyst

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join WSP's Earth & Environment Team as a GIS Analyst in our Nashville, TN office. As a GIS Analyst, you will be involved in projects that require the use of geographic information systems to analyze and interpret data. Your responsibilities will include providing technical assistance for capturing, modeling, and analyzing geographical and tabular data to illustrate and determine spatial relationships as it pertains to client projects. You will also provide support to technical staff and project managers by assisting with spatial mapping, discovering patterns and trends, and developing mapping applications and tools at the intersection of data analysis, programming, and cartography. Additionally, you will generate accurate and concise documentation assessing project areas, and with applying and integrating GIS data and perspective to solve environmental challenges across a variety of science and planning disciplines.

Your Impact

As a GIS Analyst, you will assist with performing GIS surveys and reports from field sites for project research and investigation. You will maintain quality control standards and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, compiling documentation, and analysis of incoming and existent data. You will also model and prepare topographic maps, graphs, and tabular data using GPS, aerial photographs, and other tools and data to determine exact locations of project areas, site impact, and associated physical and geographic sensitivities. Furthermore, you will perform basic professional GIS work relating to conducting investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information relating to digital mapping, merging topographical data with external data, identifying the characteristics and conditions of a site, and determining the authenticity of spatial data.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need a Bachelor's Degree in GIS, Environmental Science, Planning, or a related field. You will also require 1 to 3 years of relevant post-education experience in discipline with prior GIS experience. Additionally, you will need experience with ESRI's Arc GIS platform, familiarity with AutoCAD, Python, Visual Basic, Arcade, or SQL programming, and analytical skills and prior experience with research techniques, modeling data, scanning and digitizing files, and experience maintaining records and databases with assigned projects.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

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