Lead Geographic Information Systems Consultant

This Opportunity

WSP USA is looking for a talented individual to join our team as a Lead Geographic Systems Consultant to support the company’s growing Climate, Resilience & Sustainability Group. See wsp.com/advancingsustainability for a description of our team and capabilities.

This position could work out of WSP's offices in Ephrata, PA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Houston, TX; Miami, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, UT; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Virginia Beach, VA; or Washington, DC. Other WSP office locations may be considered.

The selected candidate will provide high level technical assistance and guidance for capturing, modeling, and analyzing geographical and tabular data to illustrate and determine spatial relationships as it pertains to client projects.  You will provides support and guidance for multi-site/phase projects by overseeing field investigations, spatial mapping, discovering patterns and trends, and developing mapping applications and tools at the intersection of data analysis, programming, and cartography.  Ensure that documentation, mapping, and recommendations accurately portray the results of analyses and addresses impact and long-term risks on project areas by applying and integrating GIS data and perspective to environmental challenges across a variety of science and planning disciplines.  Assist project leadership with overseeing environmental impact assessment, master planning, corrective/mitigation strategy development, permitting, and/or restoration activities.  Ensure that responsibilities are delivered and adhered to with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry standards.

Your Impact

• Oversee quality control standards and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, documentation, and analysis of incoming and existent data.
• Coordinate the modeling and preparation of topographic maps, graphs, and tabular data using aerial photographs, GPS, and other tools and data to determine exact locations of project areas, site impact, and associated physical and geographic sensitivities. 
• Perform professional GIS work and oversee investigations, inspections, studies, and surveys to gain further information relating to digital mapping, merging topographical data with external data, verifying site conditions and characteristics, and validating and signing off on the authenticity of spatial data. 
• Analyze literature, maps, data, archived records, and other sources of information to identify, visualize, and articulate primary, secondary, and tertiary impact.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as maps, tables, charts, reports, models, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to address, prevent, control, or remediate physical and geographic site issues on moderate to large-scale projects.
• Ensure compliance with guidelines and project-specific procedures which include but are not limited to, the maintenance of any data collection, database, documentation, logbooks, and the management of a digital library of geographic maps in various file types.
• Assist with development and scoping of medium-to large-sized projects.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
• Oversee existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) databases and proficiency with geodatabase design.
• Coordinate with regulatory agencies, clients, communities, subcontractors, and technical staff in a confident and professional manner.
• Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future ready solutions for clients.
• Actively engage in business development and proposal writing.
• Remain current in latest GIS practices, methods, procedures, subject matter, and techniques.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in GIS, Environmental or Earth Science, Planning, or a related field.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post-education experience in positions where the use of GIS technology was the primary job duty..
• Advanced proficiency with ESRI’s Arc GIS platform. 
• Experience working with LiDAR elevation datasets.
• Significant experience using Python programming to automate GIS tasks.
• Strong ana