GIS Technician—Position Description

Under the direction of a Project Manager and a Project Director, the GIS Technician is responsible for providing GIS support to the various components of cultural resource management conducted by CSH.

The position involves:

• Georeferencing of historic maps and aerial photographs, with overlays of various GIS data layers to support historic background research
• Preparation of GPS equipment for archaeological field crews.  Post-processing of field-collected GPS data and GIS map production
• Creation/maintenance of cultural resources GIS data, including digitizing hard-copy data sources and entry of tabular data
• Production of high-quality maps for inclusion in technical reports for submission to the State Historic Preservation or other agencies for review and presentation to project-related stakeholders
• Incorporating client-provided architectural/engineering plans and data (typically in CAD format) for GIS analyses
• Talking the company into supporting HIGICC with an organizational membership*

For more information, visit our website www.culturalsurveys.com.

To Apply

If interested, please submit a résumé, three references (with phone and email contacts), and if available, digital examples of maps or other works produced in GIS (for example, technical/academic report figures, ArcGIS Online web maps, poster maps, etc.) to CSH, attention Matt McDermott: mmcdermott@culturalsurveys.com or info@culturalsurveys.com.