About the opportunity

SWCA is looking for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Project Geospatial Scientist for SWCA's Rocky Mountain Plains operations. This position will primarily be responsible for large-project GIS services in SWCA's Rocky Mountain Plains Offices (Denver, Fort Collins, Sheridan, and Bismarck). In addition to technical GIS skills and experience, the ideal candidate will also have archaeology or cultural resources experience, supervisory experience, and some project management exper SWCA Environmental Consultants is a growing employee-owned firm, providing a full spectrum of environmental services. With more than 30 offices across the United States, SWCA is one of the largest environmental compliance firms and ranks among Engineering News-Record's Top 200 Environmental Firms. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team and use GIS and technology to better our natural environment. This position is available for distributed work in the US. However, it is strongly preferred that the applicant be in or near the Broomfield, CO area or Minneapolis, MN. Application Deadline: Our team will begin reviewing applications immediately, and interviews will be scheduled with qualified candidates on a rolling basis. The application process will remain open until we have received a robust pool of qualified candidates. Once we have identified suitable individuals, we may close the application process without prior notice. We appreciate the time and effort invested by all applicants and will carefully consider each submission. What you will accomplish

The Project Geospatial Scientist will serve as the primary point of contact for several large, complex projects at a time. They will be responsible for coordinating the GIS for multiple projects with different teams throughout the Rocky Mountain Plains (RMP) region. The Project Geospatial Scientist will work with the RMP GIS Team Lead to ensure deliverable consistency, quality of GIS products, and proper load-leveling within the RMP GIS team. The applicant must have a demonstrated ability to critically evaluate changing client and project manager priorities and break down high-level projects into targeted deliverables. They must be comfortable working with different stakeholders and be open-minded to new and changing approaches to ensure the desired solution is achieved. Furthermore, they must be able to provide technical expertise and guidance to office leaders in support of project and proposal efforts. Responsibilities include: Assist the Team Lead with sub-regional strategic planning for geospatial sciences. Lead large/complex projects/tasks from start to finish, with minimal guidance or supervision. Use experience and technical knowledge for moderately sized proposal efforts. Perform complex geoprocessing, modeling, or spatial analysis in coordination with subject matter experts and senior team members. Help ensure the overall quality of work is consistent with SWCA's standards and practices alongside other team members. Produce moderately complex cartographic quality maps adhering to SWCA or client mapping templates. Manage large, complex datasets. Design, create, maintain, and perform QA/QC of geospatial databases. Independently troubleshoot complex problems for resource teams. Be an active member in technical/industry organizations. Apply knowledge of environmental resources and regulations to the job. Demonstrate technical proficiency in geospatial sciences through continuing education, training, presentations, or accreditations. Comply with the safety plan. May supervise multiple junior staff or temporarily direct the work of others. May specialize in a particular application of GIS to environmental consulting. May lead/supervise a team of technical GIS experts in order to execute technical tasks through self and others on projects directly related to the area of specialized application of GIS o environmental consulting. Experience and qualifications for success

We seek a team member who possess demonstrated experience in product management, environmental consulting, and mobile data collection. We seek the following specific qualities: REQUIRED: Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Geography, Anthropology, Biology, Environmental Science, or related field with an emphasis in GIS (or GIS certifi Minimum seven (7) years of experience as a senior GIS analyst or similar position with demonstrated increasing levels of professional-level responsibility and leadership Experience in the design, development, implementation, and administration of GIS systems is required. Completed all GIS-related aspects of a project, from budget preparation/scoping to pre-field preparations, to geospatial analyses, to final report maps and calculations Demonstrated ability of data transfer, data analysis, data mining, and data inventory using software applications (e.g. Windows Explorer, Excel, Access, ESRI ArcGIS) Demonstrated experience with ArcGIS Pro 2.x and ArcMap 10.x as well as knowledge of cartography and computer mapping including design principles and understanding map creation procedures in ArcGIS required Experience with ArcGIS Online/Enterprise to manage and distribute spatial data General understanding of basic statistics, and geometric math computations (e.g., summary, distributions, frequency, min/max, range, angles, distance, slope, degrees, area) Prior knowledge and experience creating database schemas, domains, ArcServer/web applications, network analysis, PREFERRED or HELPFUL: Master's degree in Geography, Cartography, Archaeology, Biology, Environmental Science, or related field with an emphasis in GIS GISP or similar professional GIS certification Previous experience managing GIS projects/tasks in the environmental