
Grafenwoehr LRAM Coordinator
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Position Overview
Woolpert is hiring a Land Reconfiguration and Maintenance Coordinator our Geospatial Information & Training Land Sustainment Services support contract to the United States Army Integrated Training Area Management (ITAM) Program. This is an on-site role working at the U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
The Grafenwoehr Land Reconfiguration and Maintenance (LRAM) Coordinator will be part of a dynamic fast-paced team supporting the U.S. Army’s Sustainable Range Program (SRP) in Europe and Africa. The SRP is the U.S. Army’s overall approach for improving the way in which it designs, manages, and uses its ranges and training facilities, with the goal of maximizing capability, availability, and accessibility of ranges and training lands. The SRP GIS mission is to create, analyze, manage, and distribute authoritative standardized spatial information, products, and services for the execution of training strategies and missions on U.S. Army ranges and training lands. The program strives to provide the SRP community, trainers, and soldiers with the ability to leverage the most accurate and complete geospatial datasets through easily accessible and user-friendly products and applications.
The SRP GIS program in Europe is conducted at U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command (USAREUR-AF) Regional Support Centers (RSC), located at Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels, Germany.
The Grafenwoehr LRAM Coordinator is responsible for the direct support of the USAREUR-AF SRP mission, the Joint Military Readiness Center (JMRC) and Training Support Area Europe (TSAE) Regional Training Support Division East (RTSD-E), conducting activities to design, coordinate and execute repair, maintenance and reconfiguration of training lands to support mission readiness, reporting, and ensuring all applicable GIS requirements and data standards are met.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.
What You Will Do:
As the Grafenwoehr LRAM Coordinator at Woolpert, you will:
- Be responsible for developing and maintaining GIS data and services that support Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM), which provides for the sustainment of realistic training land conditions and the support of personnel, weapons, vehicles, and mission requirements for the units using the installation
- Ensure the capability to create, analyze, manage and distribute authoritative standardized spatial information, products, and services for the execution of training strategies and missions on U.S. Army ranges and training lands
- Develop and maintain geospatial information, products, and services that support the five ITAM program components:
- Training Requirements Integration (TRI)
- Sustainable Range Awareness (SRA)
- Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA)
- Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Develop and maintain all GIS data in compliance with the SDSFIE, Installation Geospatial Information & Services (IGI&S), and SRP GIS data requirements
- Coordinate, develop, update, and maintain information, products, and services that support SRP functions within the USAREUR-AF area of responsibility:
- Geospatial data and metadata creation, updates, and maintenance
- Data specifications and source evaluations
- Data quality and standards compliance validation checks
- Spatial analysis, GIS data conversion, imagery requirements identification, and image processing
- Develop, produce, and distribute cartographic products (hard copy and digital formats)
- Conduct field data collection surveys, operate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) survey equipment, and utilize other field data collection hardware and software
- Document training programs and standard operating procedures
- Provide technical support for data collection, map production, and use of SRP automated tools
- Participate in military training support and exercise planning events
- SRP program measure tracking, including Installation Status Report (ISR) services
- SRP GIS data and metadata consolidation and reporting to approved repositories
- SRP GIS data reconciliation with the Real Property Inventory (RPI)
- Leverage and adapt commercial off the shelf (COTS) automated templates, tools, and applications to develop, discover, utilize and distribute SRP products
- Assess and survey training land, range, and training facility conditions
- Develop training land maintenance requirements
- Coordinate with Host Nation (HN) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) stakeholders regarding training land sustainment and military exercise support
- Develop and maintain Sustainable Range Awareness literature and products
- Develop, maintain, and deliver custom map products in response to requests submitted by USAREUR-AF SRP organization personnel in compliance with applicable U.S. DoD regulations and NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) for cartographic products
- Prepare and conduct GIS-related technical training upon request from SRP personnel on topics including, but not limited to, the use of ESRI ArcGIS Pro and the Range Manager’s Toolkit (RMTK)
What You Will Bring:
- Ability to understand, speak, read, and write the English and German languages
- Must be able to obtain a US Department of Defense common access card (CAC)
- No relocation assistance offered - must already reside in Germany/EU or arrange own transportation/residence permit/work visa
- Understanding of GIS concepts and terminology
- Experience with Esri ArcGIS software
The Grafenwoehr LRAM Coordinator must have demonstrated experience with:
- Coordinating and briefing U.S. DoD military personnel, Government employees, and international stakeholders
- GIS concepts, applications, and standards, including experience with ESRI ArcGIS Pro software and Portal for ArcGIS, including U.S. DoD and NATO GIS and data standards
- Cartography concepts, terminology, and standards, including U.S. DoD and NATO mapping standards
- General knowledge of remote sensing, surveying, and other land assessment techniques, applications, and standards
- General knowledge of U.S. DoD data management concepts, terminology, and security standards
- General computer skills, i.e. word processor, e-mail, spreadsheets, etc.
- The following experience is favored:
- Experience with the S. Army’s Sustainable Range Program
- Experience with the Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) GIS data standard or other defined spatial data models
- Experience with Army IGI&S products and standards
- Experience with DoD enterprise geospatial data and systems
- Experience with Oracle, SQL, or other database management software
- Proficiency in processing and using geospatial imagery and lidar data
- Proficiency in Autodesk or other CAD software
- Experience with GPS, surveying, or field data collection
Benefits You Will Love
Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:
- Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
- Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
- Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
- Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
- Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
- Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!
Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Pay Range
€55.000 - €59.000 EUR
Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/
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