GIS Specialist

Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced GIS Specialist to join our Renewables team. Westwood is a leading renewables, power, public infrastructure, and land development consulting firm dedicated to creating a better world for people though our work. Our core values – Relationships, Innovation, Dedication, Initiative, and Growth – are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in creating strong partnerships, fostering innovative solutions, committing passionately to our work, taking proactive steps towards progress, and nurturing personal and professional development.

Job Description:

The GIS Specialist position will play a crucial role in our team, supporting our renewable energy projects with their technical expertise and innovative approaches to GIS. We are looking for a dynamic GIS Specialist to enhance our team with their expertise in spatial analysis, cartography, and data management. If you're passionate about GIS and ready to contribute to groundbreaking projects, we want to hear from you!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Spatial Analysis & Cartography: Create, manage, and analyze, and display spatial data using GIS software.
• Data Interpretation & Management: Independently interpret data while maintaining comprehensive documentation. Manage and update existing GIS datasets, ensuring their relevance and accuracy.
• Process Innovation: Proactively challenge and improve existing processes, developing more efficient methodologies.
• GIS Analysis & Product Development: Perform complex GIS analyses using the ArcGIS Platform, creating mapping products that meet project requirements.
• Technical Solutions & Delivery: Deliver detailed, technically proficient solutions, ensuring clear and accurate spatial data representation in both hardcopy and electronic formats.
• Project Workflow Integration: Gain a complete understanding of product deliverables, managing and anticipating the information needs of project teams.
• GIS Application Development: Develop and maintain geospatial data across desktop and mobile applications, adhering to strict quality standards.
• Scripting & Automation: Create scripts to streamline routine GIS tasks, enhancing efficiency and productivity.
• Technology Advancement: Stay abreast of the latest GIS technologies, developing innovative solutions and workflows.
• Client & Team Support: Work directly with clients and team members, supporting their GIS needs, troubleshooting issues, and clearly explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentorship: Mentor and train junior GIS specialists, fostering skill development and professional growth within the team.

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Westwood Professional Services, Inc.

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Westwood Professional Services, Inc.

The Assistant Project Manager will provide support to an experienced project manager on complex and/or multi-service projects. They will also be responsible for project management of small and/or single-service projects and support a service lead on small and/or single-service projects. The Assistant Project Manager will play a key role in stakeholder relationships, team management, project planning and monitoring, oversight of project work and deliverables, managing uncertainty and change, and timely invoicing and AR collection.

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Civil Graduate Engineer

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Westwood Professional Services

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As a Site Design Intern, the selected candidate will learn to apply industry standards, including AASHTO, local grading and stormwater codes, and NRCS guidance, in the civil design process and will assist Senior Engineers in the preparation of grading plans, drainage designs, erosion control plans, and construction documents.

 Westwood Professional Services

The Site Design Intern will join a civil engineering team supporting the site layout, grading, drainage, and access road design of utility-scale wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects. Projects range from preliminary site layout studies to full construction document packages for renewable energy developers, IPPs, and utility clients. This position offers a direct opportunity to apply civil engineering coursework to real-world renewable energy infrastructure projects. 

As a Site Design Intern, the selected candidate will learn to apply industry standards, including AASHTO, local grading and stormwater codes, and NRCS guidance, in the civil design process and will assist Senior Engineers in the preparation of grading plans, drainage designs, erosion control plans, and construction documents. 

Westwood Professional Services

The Electrical Intern will join a renewable energy electrical design team, applying relevant coursework and experience to the design of collection systems, interconnection facilities, and balance-of-plant electrical infrastructure for wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects. Projects range from small feasibility studies to large, complex utility-scale designs for renewable energy developers, IPPs, and utility clients. This position offers a direct opportunity to apply electrical engineering knowledge to real-world renewable energy infrastructure. 

As an Electrical Intern, the selected candidate will learn to apply industry standards, including IEEE, NESC, and NEC, in the engineering design process and will assist Senior Engineers in the preparation of one-line diagrams, collection system layouts, equipment specifications, and interconnection studies. 

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Westwood Professional Services, Inc.

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As a Land Surveying Intern, the selected candidate will learn to operate GPS, robotic total station, and drone-based data collection equipment in the field, and will assist Professional Land Surveyors in the processing, drafting, and quality control of boundary surveys, topographic mapping, and construction staking deliverables.

Survey Intern

Westwood Professional Services, Inc.

The Land Surveying Intern will join a field and office survey team supporting boundary, topographic, and construction surveys for utility-scale wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects. Projects range from preliminary site topographic mapping to final as-built surveys for renewable energy developers, IPPs, and utility clients. This position offers a direct opportunity to apply surveying and geomatics coursework to real-world renewable energy infrastructure projects.

As a Land Surveying Intern, the selected candidate will learn to operate GPS, robotic total station, and drone-based data collection equipment in the field, and will assist Professional Land Surveyors in the processing, drafting, and quality control of boundary surveys, topographic mapping, and construction staking deliverables.