Engineering Specialist II

Engineering Specialist II

This position with the NC Department of Transportation offers full state benefits, competitive salaries, and many career development opportunities. Salary Grade: NC14 Salary Range: $50,633 - $88,607.

The Photogrammetry Unit acquires aerial imagery and generates geospatial information products used for transportation planning, design, and construction. The unit also partners with other government agencies for statewide orthophotography and aerial LiDAR elevation data programs, serving as NCDOT's subject matter experts for aerial surveying.

The Photogrammetry Unit has an opening for an Engineering Specialist II to provide advanced level technical expertise on complex technical duties within the Photogrammetry Unit supporting engineers and other technicians. In this role you will:

• Be responsible for planning flight routes based on currently available GPS base stations and satellite configurations; operating and maintaining an Aerial Sensor System; post processing all GPS and inertial measurement data; post processing raw digital sensor data into usable digital exploitation imagery.
• Provide technical and production support to the geospatial processing work groups as needed to meet unit goals. This work involves a thorough understanding of the Photogrammetry Unit workflow and processes, a thorough understanding of GPS processing, and a thorough understanding of the Unit's hardware, software, and mapping products.
• Maintaining detailed GPS/IMU records on all aerial missions and standard operating procedures for all GPS/IMU processing procedures within the unit as it relates to the production of mapping products.
• Provide quality review of all geospatially derived mapping products.

Knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies Management prefers applicants that demonstrate the following:

• Knowledge of concepts, practices, and theories used in the technical area of transportation and geomatics engineering, LiDAR Surveying, remote sensing, GPS surveying, conventional surveying, and GIS.
• Knowledge of planning flight routes based on currently available GPS base stations and satellite configurations; operating and maintaining an Aerial Sensor System; post processing all GPS and inertial measurement data; post processing raw digital sensor data into usable digital exploitation imagery.
• Experience with the use and operation of equipment and software associated with photogrammetry, engineering surveys, LiDAR, and/or GIS.
• Experience communicating complex technical information orally and in-writing clearly, effectively, and concisely to upper and lower-level geomatics professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to perceive overlapping aerial imagery stereoscopically in three dimensions and interpret planimetric and terrain features relatively correctly.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: Associate’s degree in an applicable area of Engineering Technology or Survey Technology from an appropriately accredited institution and seven (7) years of progressive technician experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Supplemental and Contact Information: Kayren Williamson 919-707-7092 /knwilliamson@ncdot.gov.