Team Lead, GIS Services

THE OPPORTUNITY

Western Forest Products is hiring for a Team Lead, GIS Services to join our team based in Campbell River, BC.

What You'll Do: The Team Lead, GIS Services will lead a team of GIS professionals, manage complex projects, and develop tools to improve business performance while ensuring high standards and efficiency. This position is crucial for coordination with other departments and external clients to develop solutions to issues and oversee the operation, maintenance, and design of all GIS-related systems and databases.

Who You Are: You are an experienced GIS professional with strong leadership, project management skills, and expertise in geomatics and database management, ready to foster a positive team atmosphere. You have a proven ability to lead, mentor, and motivate staff, and possess refined written and oral communication skills along with a customer service-oriented disposition.

What We Offer:

• Salary range of $100,000 - $115,000 based on skill level, qualifications, and experience
• Annual incentive plan
• Pension plan contributions - WFP contributes 7% towards a pension plan, no matching required
• Extended health and dental benefits - WFP pays for 100% of the employee monthly premiums
• 4 weeks' vacation to start
• Employee family assistance program
• Financial support for learning and development opportunities

Work Environment: This role is to be performed in person at our Campbell River office.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a team of GIS professionals, ensuring that all corporate and operational requests are met on time and to the highest standard;
• Use advanced GIS, data management and programming skills to develop tools and technologies to increase efficiency and improve business performance;
• Foster a positive team atmosphere by supervising, mentoring, recruiting, training and evaluating staff while ensuring that they have the resources necessary to be successful;
• Manage large and complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, delegate tasks and ensure that work is completed to a high standard, on time and on budget;
• Coordinate with other departments and external clients to develop solutions to issues;
• Oversee the operation, maintenance and design of all GIS related systems and databases;
• Perform advanced editing, spatial queries, prepare and implement data quality checks, author and edit map templates and views, analyze and document business processes;
• Develop standards and procedures for handling, updating and analyzing data and ensure these are followed;
• Maintain continued awareness of emerging technologies and recognize and promote technologies that offer significant opportunities;
• Understand corporate financial goals and develop innovative solutions to drive cost efficiencies;
• Coordinate with IT department to troubleshoot systems to ensure availability of applications;
• Prepare and manage budgets and negotiate contracts;
• Manage external requests for data.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in GIS from a recognized and accredited institution is preferred;
• 8+ years of progressive GIS experience with 1+ year of direct supervisory experience.
• 5+ years working in the forest industry;
• Documented training with current ESRI GIS software and programming languages;
• Demonstrated forest management acumen specific to forestry requirements and challenges.

Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies

• Advanced skills in geomatics including editing, mapping, geo-processing, querying and reporting;
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and motivate staff;
• Demonstrated skills in project management, problem solving and organization;
• Strong expertise using the ESRI software suite of tools including ArcGIS Pro, ArcSDE and ArcGIS;
• Strong expertise in front and back-end of Trimble's Land Resources Manager;
• Advanced skills in database management using Oracle;
• Refined written and oral communication skills;
• Developed understanding of business drivers and performance measures;
• Customer service-oriented disposition.

YOUR CAREER

At Western Forest Products, we believe our most significant asset is our people. Investing in our people brings value and success to our business, ensuring a safe, engaged, productive, and continuously improving workplace. We offer challenging opportunities working alongside the best in the industry to meet your career and professional development goals while providing competitive total rewards and recognition.

We provide a variety of on-the-job training and continuing education in many areas at Western to ensure you have the skills you need to succeed. Our promote-from-within culture recognizes high performance, and we offer diverse career paths across the organization for those with the talent and will to advance.

WESTERN OVERVIEW

Western Forest Products is a leading forest products company that sustainably manages forests and manufactures high-quality wood products. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with operations in the coastal region of BC and Washington State, Western meets the needs of customers worldwide with a specialty wood products focus and diverse product offering.

Our commitment to health and safety, environmental stewardship, and community engagement is core to how we do business at Western Forest Products.

Our approach to responsible business practices in all aspects of our business is multi-faceted. We adhere to and employ the most stringent environmental practices in the world. The steps we take to ensure the forests in which we operate are renewed and remain healthy and viable for future generations are mirrored in the care we take to make certain our communities continue to grow and prosper. This includes investing in communities where we operate and continuing to forge mutually beneficial relationships with First Nations in respect of their local and cultural interests.