Maritime Specialist (Cartography - Multiple Openings

Location

Springfield, VA | United States

Job description

Role Summary: The Cartographer will apply Maritime domain geospatial knowledge to acquire, analyze, compile, and disseminate location-based information and intelligence to populate, update geospatial databases and create GEOINT products. Responsibilities includes referencing source materials, updating and/or creating geospatial database entries, and nautical charts. Work will be submitted through the QA/QC process and is required to meet strict deadlines. Will provide services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) Source Directorate, Maritime Safety Office (SFH).

Role: Maritime Specialist (Cartographer) - Multiple Positions

Work Environment:

• Location: NCE Campus - Springfield, VA
  
• Occasional Travel

• Support Standard Nautical Chart (SNC) production by performing cartographic functions using the Enterprise Product On-Demand (ePODs) production process
• Provide support to Notice to Mariners production
• Extract features from a variety of sources, including but not limited to nautical charts, digital hydrographic survey data, and imagery to update Digital Nautical Charts (DNC) and Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC)
• Compile, recompile or update maritime features and attributes within ESRI-based FGMOD production system
• Improve existing production processes by writing Python scripts or ESRI models
• Nautical data conversion and migration
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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in geography, cartography, imagery analysis or military equivalent; Additional experience can be substituted for education

• 0 - 12 years of experience in geography, cartography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which includes skill in ArcGIS applications

• Ability to analyze imagery and non-imagery sources to application to NGA hydrographic products and databases

• Experience creating shapefiles, geodatabases, and features

• Experience working with ESRI Production Line Tool Set (PLTS), Nautical Charting, Production Mapping, and Defense Mapping extensions or similar toolsets

• Ability to geo-rectify maps, charts and various sources

• Current TS/SCI with ability to obtain and maintain a Counter-Intelligence (CI) Polygraph

C ompetencies & Skills:

• Experience in the Maritime GEOINT domain

• Knowledge of the S57 data format

• Clear and effective written and oral communication with team members and customer(s)

• Comfortable working with a team to achieve project completion

• Understands and applies more advanced concepts and processes to tasks

• Keen attention to detail

• Proficiency using MS Office Suite

Axim Geospatial’s (Axim) mission is to use our expertise to provide clarity and solutions to help our customers solve the world’s national security, infrastructure, and environmental problems. We are the largest singular provider of end-to-end geospatial services and solutions in the U.S serving the communities in which we live. Our core competencies include: big data services, geomatics, business solutions, cloud services, infrastructure security, analytics and professional services. Our customers include national, state and local government, defense and intelligence, infrastructure, energy, commercial and environmental customers. Axim Geospatial is an NV5 company.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

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