Job Postings
Senior GIS Geographer, Sentinel USA, Inc., Newark, Ohio
Job Posting Date: 05/12/2008
Responsible for overseeing the activities of the Geographic Information System (“GIS”) and application development functions .
Specific responsibilities include:
- Continuous efforts to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes through automation and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service
- Develop, operate and maintain geographical information computer systems (GIS)
- Oversee the development of geography project specific plans and manage project costs, budgets and resources;
- Work with GIS staff and production department to understand their automation needs, and prepare technical specifications, design and develop user friendly standalone GIS applications and tools;
- serve as primary point of contact between clients and the team providing GIS services;
- Oversee the application design, development and support of automated geographic projects using GIS mapping and analysis with emphasis on GIS mapping application and tools.
- Assign, schedule, coordinate staff workloads in accordance with project requirements and priorities; and
- Recruit, supervise, train, and evaluate professional and technical staff, including Geographers, GIS Programmers, Analysts, Technicians, consultants and contractors.
A qualified applicant will have a Master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems or Geography and either 1 year of experience performing the duties of the position offered or 1 year of experience as a GIS Programmer. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training and experience. Must have demonstrated experience developing GIS applications using ArcGIS products and AutoCAD Map. Must also have spatial data analysis skills and experience with JAVA, MS.Net, Scripting languages (JavaScript, VBScript, Python) and SQL Server. Must have strong communication and organization skills.
Interested applicants should submit their resume via email or regular post to
Danielle Brown (hr@sentinelusa.com)
Human Resources Department
Sentinel USA Inc.
51 North Third Street, Ste 702.
Newark Ohio - 43055
