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Description
With more than 30 years of environmental and social consulting experience in Indonesia, PT Hatfield Indonesia’s (PTHI) work culture focuses on scientific excellence, professional development, and promoting a rewarding and inclusive work environment. Our organizational structure promotes an accessible, collaborative, and down-to-earth management approach that cares about employee career progression.
Hatfield is a recognized leader in the application of remote sensing technology for environmental monitoring applications. Building on decades of scientific experience with optical and radar data, we apply cutting-edge approaches to acquire, manage, and analyze data to deliver strategic information to our clients in Indonesia and around the world.
PTHI is seeking a skilled GIS professional to join our Geomatics team at PTHI as a full-time employee. The right candidate is expected provide technical expertise for implementing, designing, and managing remote sensing and geomatics projects in Indonesia, ASEAN, and Canada. The Geomatics group offers technical services to internal project teams and projects, as well as for external clients. The GIS Specialist is expected to significantly contribute to the success of Hatfield’s strategy in delivering remote sensing products and services to clients in sectors including climate change and carbon, mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, forestry, infrastructure, and international development. Travel to conduct field verification may be required to support projects.
We help clients in the private sector, governments, international space agencies, international finance institutions, and non-government organizations with scientific and strategic consulting and data analytics using satellite, LiDAR, and UAV remote sensing technologies and other environmental and socio-economic data.
PTHI offers a fantastic opportunity to be part of a company that interacts across a wide range of sectors and clients in Indonesia and internationally. Your passion and expertise are essential to help grow our business. For the right person, there is also the opportunity to be part of the business development and management of a diversified company looking to expand into new and exciting markets.
The GIS Specialist reports to the Geomatics Business Unit Leader.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in implementing remote sensing and geomatics projects and services, especially related to carbon projects.
- Apply remote sensing and GIS principles and innovative methods to analyze data and solve problems, including automating data analysis using machine learning.
- Design, test, and implement innovative workflows for acquiring, processing, and analyzing large time-series satellite remote sensing and GIS datasets.
- Develop workflows to integrate remote sensing and GIS data with other data sets from multiple sources.
- Customize scripts and software application to manipulate remote sensing and GIS datasets for change detection, segmentation, and image classification.
- Design validation experiments and compare measured results with ground truth data.
- Perform fieldwork as required for collection of project data.
- Organize and manage data collected in the field, and ensure all data are carefully stored and safely transported to head office in Bogor.
- Ensure projects are completed on time and on budget while striving to achieve the highest possible level of quality control on all outputs, documents, and maps produced.
- Communicate clearly with non-technical environmental specialists regarding requirements.
- Lead and contribute to technical proposals and reports.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in geographical sciences, remote sensing, or related subject from a reputable university. Master’s degree from a reputable university will be an advantage.
- At least five years of experience in the use and operation of ArcGIS for Desktop or QGIS.
- Experience with a wide variety of remote sensing data sets (e.g. LiDAR, UAV, Sentinel-2, Landsat, and SAR) to conduct image analysis to deliver information to clients.
- Experience in processing and analyzing imagery with GIS and remote sensing software such as PCI Geomatica, ArcGIS, QGIS, and SNAP.
- Experience with automating image processing and analysis through scripts and applications (i.e. Python, R, and Google Earth Engine).
- Fundamental understanding and demonstrable knowledge of GIS, remote sensing, and related earth science applications on carbon project implementation.
- Experience in a consulting environment is preferrable
- Experience conducting business development with existing and prospective clients
- Experience in constructive problem-solving and ability to analyze requirements and recommend solutions.
- Strong attention to organization, detail, and record keeping.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia; including effective questioning, listening, and presentation skills.
- General computer skills (MS Office suite).
- For national citizens: preference will be given to Indonesian nationals but international specialists are also encouraged to apply.
Other Assets/Skills
Skills and Other Assets
- Programming skills (i.e. Python, JavaScript, and HTML5).
- Knowledge and experience of spatial data management.
- Ability to communicate regularly, professionally, and clearly at general, technical and management levels to inform team members, science teams and the science user community.
- Ability to manage small- to medium-sized technical projects
- Interest in environmental management and applications.
- Knowledge of random forest or other machine learning algorithm analysis would be an asset.
How to Apply
PTHI is committed to employment equity and workplace diversity. We strive for equity, inclusiveness, and diversity, irrespective of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or disability.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume in confidence describing your experience and salary expectations through email to: yulham@hatfieldgroup.com. Please indicate the position of “GIS Specialist” in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Please submit only via email only and not through the online submission “Apply Now” form on the website.