Roseburg Forest Products owns, sustains and responsibly harvests 600,000 acres of U.S. timberlands that yield the highest-quality building materials and specialty wood products that generate pride for the job and stand the test of time. Founded in 1936, the privately-held company has built its reputation for quality, versatility and reliability with products shipped across North America that include medium density fiberboard, softwood and hardwood plywood, dimension and stud lumber, and LVL and I-Joists. See how Roseburg is building and growing at www.roseburg.com and @Roseburg

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a team of GIS Analysts and GIS Technicians.
• Increase GIS team bench strength through targeted training and project management.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Resources’ user groups and Resource Technical Services (RTS) shop processes.
• Manage the software, data flow, and analysis for all Resources GIS, managing daily workflow requirements as well as special non-recurring and periodic projects
• Develop and maintain all short-term and long-term System deployment, training, and continuous improvement plans.
• Model company core values

System Integration

• Work with Resources staff to understand existing group and department workflows.
• Develop plans for enhancing existing GIS, paper/analog, and spreadsheet tracking processes through migration to the Enterprise GIS.
• Identify opportunities for workflow efficiency gains through modifications to existing data management structures and increased utilization of the System.

System Design

• Oversees the definition of all system data schemas, ensuring they effectively support resource management requirements.
• Create and enforce protocols for reviewing schema changes, ensuring that the impact on workflows and automated scripts is controlled and manageable
• Define custom user interface and user tool requirements and develop and or oversee the development of user interfaces and tools.
• Define requirements of recurring GIS products such as contract maps and bank reporting requests.
• Ensure standardization of recurring product appearance and data storage protocols.
• Stay current on commercial GIS software developments.
• Recommend and implement software enhancements and platform changes.

Data Integrity

• Ensure maintenance of GIS system schema definition.
• Ensure maintenance of GIS meta-data documentation.
• Develop data quality standards, and screening tools to eliminate the introduction of poor-quality data to core datasets.
• Develop and ensure use of data quality auditing tools.
• Ensure data complies with defined topological relationships.

Data Analysis

• Manage GIS analytical support for various business ventures.
• Develop tools for automating and expanding the use of GIS analysis within Resources Teams

Staff Training

• Work with Resources staff to design appropriate training paths and schedules.
• Develop topic specific system training materials.
• Conduct both 1 on 1 and larger group training sessions.

Staff Management

• Implement effective safety protocols.
• Assign projects to GIS team members including performance standards and completion dates.
• Recruit, hire and train GIS team members.
• Define GIS team member objectives and provide semi - annual performance evaluations.
• Foster a positive teamwork environment that encourages active collaboration and retention.
• Ensure team member activities are cost effective and consistent with needs and objectives.

Administration

• Prepare annual budget including training, software and product costs by month
• Develop system deployment and project status reports to enhance customer visibility

Required Qualifications

• BS in Forest Engineering or Forest Management with 5+ years of GIS management experience
• or BS in GIS with 5+ years of managing GIS data for a forest resources business or an equivalent amount of training, education, and experience
• Supervisory experience
• Experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with GIS data for a forest resource business
• Experienced python programmer
• Experienced using ESRI Portal to develop web maps
• Familiar with ESRI ArcSDE, replication, and version management
• Familiar with VertiGIS web and mobile development tools
• Familiar with database management.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER INCLUDING DISABILITY AND VETERANS