1st & 2nd Shift positions Available (Shift Differential is 10%)

Duties:

Support NGA’s Maritime Safety Office by supporting production programs of Digital Nautical Charts (DNC) and Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC).

Required Skills:

• Expertise and experience in geography, cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.
• Expertise and experience in creating shapefiles, geo-databases, and features.
• Knowledge of geospatial analysis software suites (GIS commercial software packages such as ArcGIS, ERDAS & SocetSet, including common office software to include spreadsheets and word processing) used by NGA to accomplish its mission.
• Knowledge of digital cartography, image processing, geographical information systems (GIS), geospatial production techniques and NGA digital data formats.
• Expertise in research information gathering for the following sources:
  • Primary legal documents that pertain to the delimitation, demarcation and maintenance of the boundary, including textual descriptions, coordinate lists, reports and accompanying maps, native maps, secondary source maps, and historic maps used for extraction and comparison.
  • Mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions using digital terrain elevation data sets.
• Expertise in preparing source material for digitizing, attribution, digitizing boundaries from georeferenced and ortho-rectified sources, applying projection, datum, and coordinate transformations, geo-referencing and ortho-rectifying source materials (maps, imagery) and extracting vectors from stereo imagery or elevation data.
• Ability to analyze imagery and non-imagery source information for application to NGA hydrographic products and databases.
• Ability to generate corrections for electronic and paper nautical charts and publications.
• Ability to compile new editions of electronic and paper nautical charts and publications.

Required Education/Experience:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in a field related to the support services may count for up to four years of this experience

2nd Shift Details (NOTE: 2nd rates will only be charged during the hours of 1800-0600 local):

• NCE: 2nd shift starts at 1530 hours local / orientation and familiarization will be on 1st shift
• NCW: 2nd shift starts at 1600 hours local / orientation and familiarization will be on 1st shift