Cartographer

Veteran-Owned Firm Seeking a Cartographer for a role in Springfield, VA

My name is Stephen Hrutka. I manage a veteran-owned firm in Washington, DC, specializing in Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Technical/ Cleared Recruiting.

HRUCKUS helps other Veteran-owned businesses recruit positions across DARPA, Strategic Capabilities Office, and Federal Agencies.

One of our longest-engaged Veteran-owned clients has a funded opening for a Cartographer Journeyman.

The ideal candidate is a Springfield, VA resident with an ACTIVE TS/SCI security clearance and willingness to obtain a Polygraph, 3 years of relevant experience, and expertise and experience in geography, cartography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.

If this role is not a fit for you but you may know someone, I am glad to offer a referral bonus.

Thanks,

Stephen M Hrutka

Principal Consultant

HRUCKUS LLC

www.hruckus.com

Position Description: Our client is seeking a Cartographer Journeyman for a role in Springfield, VA. The candidate will work within a government/contractor team environment, providing Digital Nautical Chart Production and Notice to Mariners support for existing and developing mission areas.

Position Requirements:

• For consideration, an ACTIVE TS/SCI security clearance and willingness to obtain a polygraph-level clearance upon request are required.3 years of relevant experience, in which a Bachelor's Degree in a related field may count for up to 4 years of experience.
• Expertise and experience in geography, cartography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including skills 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, and SocetSet, including standard office software such as 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 historical 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.

The target annual salary is $75,000-$80,000 per year.