GIS Specialist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description:

Arcadis is seeking to hire for a position in Asheville, North Carolina, a junior to mid-level part time cultural resources specialist with Geographic Information System (GIS) experience. The successful candidate will collaborate with one of our federal clients, subcontractors, and the internal Arcadis project team on restoration efforts. For this role, the successful candidate will map, manage relevant information, and analyze locations and other data for known and potential archaeological sites, historic structures, cultural landscapes, environmental settings, and other relevancies based on data for multiple restoration locations provided by project team.

Familiarity with relevant GIS desktop applications for the work is required. Knowledge and experience working within this framework at a federal and North Carolina state level is necessary.

The successful candidate will need to be located in Asheville, North Carolina close to our federal client. There will be some field visits, including overnight travel to various restoration locations for purposes of completing work. Regular client meetings and other project meetings will occur. This position sits within our Mobility Global Business Area. As a new hire, you will discover you can make a difference at Arcadis and be a key member of the long-term federal restoration project. This will enable you to build strong professional and technical relationships within Arcadis, involved federal and state agencies, and outside cultural resource professionals.

It is a wonderful opportunity to work in a challenging business environment with a dynamic team and gain experience in an important project that will be applicable for a wide variety of other cultural resource and environmental projects for diverse market sectors. Your career growth will only be limited by your skills and your passion for success! Role accountabilities:

The more technical aspects of your role will be serving as a qualified and experienced cultural resources specialist with GIS experience. The successful candidate will assist and provide technical guidance to field and other research teams as necessary to obtain data required to produce accurate mapping for cultural resource locations, archaeology test locations, reports, figures, photographs, drawings, and other documents to aid in meeting all project objectives. The role requires the hire to complete assigned activities within budget, timeframe, and to a quality standard that ensures overall project integrity while meeting or exceeding client objectives and expectations in compliance with Arcadis requirements and relevant national standards and codes of practice.

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of science or related field. Minimum 4 years of general experience in cultural resources management, with a combination of field- and office-based experience and roles.

Must have 3 years of experience in archaeological fieldwork as a field technician. Must have participated in a field school.

Demonstrated GIS experience including deploying GPS systems, ArcGIS Field Maps or Survey 123. Experience required in ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, Dashboards. Working knowledge of cultural resources management, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and North Carolina state guidelines (including standard archaeological survey methods). Strong communications skills. Experience working with federal and state agencies. Preferred: Good