Woodlands GIS Analyst

The Forest Planning and GIS Team within the Woodlands Division is responsible for maintaining spatial information and applications to support sustainable forest management. J.D. Irving, Limited manages over 2.5 million hectares of freehold and Crown forest land in Eastern Canada and the state of Maine.

As a GIS Analyst, you will work within Woodlands Division to design, develop, support, and maintain critical GIS applications, data, and data products associated with forestry activities and forest planning. The successful candidate will play a role in ongoing divisional digital transformation initiatives and will manage key data and data products that are critical to the continued success of the Woodlands Division. Key to the success of the role will be the continued delivery and maintenance of timely and consistent, high-quality applications, spatial data, and data products.

Objectives:

1. Develop, maintain, and automate the production of GIS data and data products.
2. Maintain enterprise geodatabases.
3. Development and management of web and mobile apps within the ESRI platform.
4. Maintain and improve source data for ESRI-based web applications.
5. Compile spatial data sets from a variety of sources.
6. Improve the performance, stability, and scalability of GIS.
7. Work with the team to develop testing routines to perform routine quality assurance tasks.
8. Assist with data integration between processes and business systems for planning purposes.
9. Support Woodlands GIS users.

Minimum Requirements:

• Professional certifications related to GIS technology.
• Understanding of Waterfall/Agile environment and technical activities such as estimating, sprint planning, testing, document creation, and production support.
• Understanding of forest inventory and/or forest resource analyses.
• Predictive modeling and machine learning.
• Experience with Azure DevOps & GitHub.
• Experience using FME for geospatial extract transform and loading (ETL) work.
• Experience with ESRI products including: Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, Web GIS (Including Mobile apps).
• Degree/Diploma or equivalent experience in geography, geomatics, forestry or a related field.
• Experience with two or more of the following; Python, Java Script, SQL, etc.
• Excellent analytical skills with good problem-solving skills and attitude. Capable of automation and execution of repetitive tasks.
• Knowledge of data and software quality assurance principles.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve data quality and integrity issues.

At Irving Woodlands, we take pride in our role as stewards of the land. Focused on rigorous and sustainable land management, Irving Woodlands is guided by an 80-year management plan that preserves the environmental and ecological integrity of our land, air, water and wildlife.

Irving Woodlands maintains an engaged team of over 1,600 employees, contractors, seasonal workers and students who are dedicated to research, conservation and continuously improving our forest management practices and long-term business results. Our multi-faceted team trains, develops and builds long-term, rewarding careers in all aspects of forestry, from tree nurseries and tree improvement to research and environmental management.