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Remote Sensing Specialist
The Opportunity:
WSP Canada Inc. is currently seeking a Remote Sensing Specialist to work in our Modelling & Analysis Team, a small group of consulting professionals and practitioners working in various locations throughout Canada. The team follows a hybrid approach to work location: the successful candidate may be located anywhere in Canada, and may work primarily remotely, but will spend an agreed upon number of days each week in one or more WSP offices.
WSP is a Canadian success story: we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
You will have opportunities to enhance the world around you: from the environment and the terrain to the highways and buildings, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
You will have outstanding career opportunities: we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday. We're open to your ideas and trying new things.
Together, we are a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work, in a phenomenal collaborative culture.
WSP offers attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.
We encourage you to come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.
What you will do:
The successful candidate will enjoy working on interdisciplinary and pan-geographical projects, sometimes directly for external clients, often for other WSP offices and teams, and frequently with collaborators. You might find yourself:
- Working on land cover classification using different types of remote sensing datasets (e.g., high resolution satellite images, UAV images, and LiDAR data).
- Performing visual interpretation of aerial imagery.
- Developing machine learning algorithms in commonly used GIS and remote sensing software packages.
- Building Python code for different remote sensing applications.
- Utilizing ArcGIS for various image processing tasks.
- Collaborating on met-ocean projects to develop methods for deriving oceanographic and meteorological parameters from different satellite observations.
- Contributing to and/or preparing effective proposals and reports.
- Performing technical reviews of work done by other remote sensing specialists on the team.
- Managing projects being performed by the Remote Sensing Team, including coordinating the elements of a project, aiming for timely completion within budget and with high standards.
- Seeking and identifying business opportunities to maintain and grow the Remote Sensing Business.
What you’ll bring to WSP:
- The successful candidate will have a graduate degree in remote sensing or similar field and will have demonstrated experience in the application of remote sensing applications in an operational (commercial) and/or academic setting. They will be a team-oriented self-motivator, with a commitment to collaboration and a willingness to work across disciplines.
- Master or PhD degree in Remote Sensing or similar field.
- Strong background using machine learning methods for various remote sensing applications.
- Strong programming skills, especially with Python.
- Proficient in using remote sensing and GIS software packages.
- Experience with land cover classification using object-based methods.
- Strong written and oral communication (English) skills.
- Demonstrated experience in project management and business development.
- Experience with Google Earth Engine and cloud computing methods for big geo data processing tasks will be considered an asset.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.
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