What are the responsibilities and job description for the GIS Cadastral Mapping Technician position at SAM?
Who We Are :
For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services (MGS) framework. As North America's premiere MGS company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high-fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.
Your Impact at SAM :
- Ability to interpret as-built drawings, construction plans, engineering plans, recorded maps, deeds, legal descriptions, surveys, highway right-of-way plans, imagery and related source documents and incorporates them into GIS using various methods including coordinate geometry (COGO), digitizing, and GPS.
- Revises existing Assessor GIS maps or draws new Assessor GIS maps using Esri ArcGIS Pro and / or ArcGIS Desktop software to incorporate new developments, subdivisions, easements, annexations, or other similar boundary changes.
- Maintains comprehensive base maps for assessment and other purposes.
- Provides information in writing and over the telephone regarding assessment maps, mapping processes and procedures, ownership history, newly created or divided parcels, technical aspects of assessment map preparation, and the standard Map and Parcel system.
- Identifies, reconciles, and translates legal descriptions into precise scale drawings of property.
- Interpolates between new maps and old maps to position changes accurately with adjoining parcels.
- Resolves discrepancies in title, erroneous and incomplete property descriptions and maps, through title and legal description research and through communication with the county Assessor.
- Follow quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) processes, and perform routine data management tasks, such as data validation and correction, queries and editing in GIS to ensure GIS data accuracy, integrity, and completeness.
What You Bring to SAM :
Our Perks :
Our Culture
Our entrepreneurial culture is a key factor in SAM being recognized as a Top Workplace for twelve consecutive years, and we make it our mission to ensure every one of our employees learns how to build and manage a business, not just be the subject matter expert on the team. At SAM, our employees development is instrumental to our success. Your learning will be supported by specialized in-house training programs and mentoring by the industrys leading experts, who just happen to be on our staff! We make SAM a GREAT place to work, but it all starts with YOU!
SAM is an EOE / Affirmative Action Employer M / F / D / V. SAM also participates in the federal E-Verify Program.
