Remote Sensing Specialist in CALGARY, Alberta

Remote Sensing Specialist – ( 250000YT )

Description

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support.

Your Opportunity

Stantec seeks an ambitious Remote Sensing Specialist to join our Alberta Geomatics Team. This team serves a diverse clientele, including federal, provincial, and municipal governments, as well as clients in urban and transportation planning, infrastructure development, and the energy industry. Our Remote Sensing Specialists leverage remote sensing and data management at various scales to provide these clients with project-specific insights and deliverables that add value beyond simple data collection. While reporting directly to the Geomatics Sector Lead, you will provide GIS support and remote sensing consultancy services to both external clients and internal Stantec teams. The ideal candidate for this role understands that geomatics is a rapidly evolving discipline and is committed to active, ongoing learning to maintain and develop comprehensive data management skills.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze remote sensing data from a wide spectrum of sources including aerial, drone, IOT, terrestrial, and satellite platforms.

• Work with Geomatics engineers and to process and interpret imagery, develop workflows and automation, identify use cases and quality processes, and integrate with a data analytics team to extract relevant information for diverse applications.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts, scientists, engineers, and policy makers to address specific data derivative needs.

• Prepare portals, reports, dashboards, and visualizations to communicate findings and insights.

• Develop and maintain documentation for remote sensing processes and data analysis.

• Provide high-quality GIS and other software application support and consulting services to clients, adhering to project budgets, timelines, and quality control standards.

• Provide project updates and data metrics throughout project lifecycles.

• Collaborate with surveyors, engineers, reality capture managers, and field teams regarding geospatial data collection methodology, error mitigation, and use of data best practices.

• Support at scale data management architecture and infrastructure initiatives to better store, analyze, aggregate, and collate data.

• Interface with IT professionals to ensure data security and corporate compliance policies are.

• Ensure all collection and management of data is aligned with the professional practice of engineering, guarantees high accuracy and integrity, and is defensible.

• Support automation and efficiency objectives for data processing and use.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Technical training and experience in GIS mapping, geospatial analysis, and geographic principles.

• Experience with remote sensing software, such as the ESRI suite, ENVI, and PCI Catalyst.

• Familiarity with municipal, provincial, and federal datasets.

• Ability to prioritize, organize, and manage multiple concurrent assignments.

• Proven data management skills, from project inception and data ingestion, to deliverables production.

• Ability to adhere to cartographic standards while effectively communicating complex information.

• Experience working within an interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• Working knowledge of various environmental disciplines, such as agriculture, mining, and site reclamation.

• Demonstrated history of business development and client interaction, value added consultancy services, tool development, automation and optimization, and proven innovation strategist.

Preferred

• Experience delivering GIS products and analytical solutions.

• Programming experience with Python.

• Experience with LiDAR and multispectral raster data.

• Experience with image analysis software.

• Experience with FME ModelBuilder.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Geomatics Engineering, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Science, Environmental Science, or a related field.

• Minimum 4 years of work experience in a GIS/Remote Sensing environment or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• PEng or EIT

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Calgary

Other Locations : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton, Canada-Alberta-Lethbridge, Canada-Alberta-Red Deer

Organization : BC-1566 CommDev-CA Alberta GEO

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Mar 5, 2025, 3:38:24 PM

Req ID: 250000YT

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans