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GIS Analyst
TerraGen Solar
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $80,000 - $105,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Leverage GIS to creatively problem solve, conduct analysis, and produce maps and web mapping applications in support of renewable power generation projects
- Support site identification, due diligence review, grid interconnection, permitting, and engineering
- Prepare spatial analysis and cartographic products related to lease management and land administration, permitting, siting of equipment and infrastructure, and overall visualization to support siting, design, optimization, financing, construction, and operation
- Support wind, solar, battery energy storage, and digital infrastructure project development through spatial data management, analysis, and cartography
- Conduct site suitability analysis
- Maintain and support custom Web Mapping Applications, Dashboards and mobile tools
- Source and manage spatial data and project specific spatial data
- Support interoperability between GIS and AutoCAD, Google Earth, and other specialized software/data services
- Conduct land, regulatory, and related research
- Provide cartographic and data visualization support for development, permitting, and project design teams
- Ensure proper coordinate systems and transformations are applied and documented and ensure data integrity
- Map land records including parcels, easements, and other proposed or documented boundaries
- Assist with quality assurance and data improvement
- Attend project and team meetings and some site visits
- Work with internal teams and perform additional duties to assist in project development and land acquisition as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (preferred major in geography, information systems, information technology, land planning, science, natural resources, environmental sciences, or related field)
- 2-5 years of professional experience in GIS analysis, preferably within the renewable energy or environmental sectors
- Required experience of at least five years using the Esri GIS platform (both Pro and Online)
- Preferred experience in utility scale renewable development mapping
- Strong understanding of land records (including parcels, lots, and easements) and legal descriptions including metes and bounds and Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
- Experience reading ALTA surveys, grading, and construction plans, one-line diagrams, and schematics preferred
- Experience working with CAD data in the GIS environment preferred
- High proficiency in communication, written, oral, and cartographically
- Must be able to troubleshoot problems and find solutions independently
- Critical thinking and creative ingenuity are essential
- Initiative, problem-solving skills, and ability to work efficiently and effectively alone or with a team
- Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
- Confidence and ability to interact with people at all levels of the organization
- Must be willing to travel as required
- Must possess valid driver's license or have the ability to obtain one
- GIS related certificates preferred
- Employees must be authorized to work in the US
