GIS Analyst
Department: Development
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Austin
Description
An opportunity has arisen to join the US team at Cubico Sustainable Investments as a GIS Analyst. Reporting to the Head of Development, this role's main responsibility is to support the day-to-day desktop level mapping for a team of renewable energy developers.
Key Responsibilities
The day-to-day work in this role is dynamic.
Activities include but are not limited to:
- Desktop level mapping in ArcGIS Pro
- Technical research
- Market analysis
- Land management
- Site suitability analysis
Formal ArcGIS training from a university or GISP certification are preferred. Domain knowledge working in an ArcGIS centric role supporting renewable energy and land management/ real estate are preferred.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Preferred Technical Skills
- Advanced ArcGIS Pro knowledge
- Experience working with ArcGIS Portal
- Experience reading and mapping legal land descriptions (Texas and PLSS)
- Technical research, writing, and documentation
- Mapping buildable areas for solar and wind projects
- Mapping renewable energy project components
- Experience downloading, storing, and processing GIS data from the internet
- Experience creating File Geodatabase Data Models
- Creating Multi Criteria Suitability Models (optional)
- ArcPy and the ArcGIS API for Python (optional)
- Experience with Safe Software's FME Desktop (optional)