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 full-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. 

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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 technical writing skills. 
• Preferred: Ability to work independently or in collaboration under the supervision of senior staff.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $64000 - $97000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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