GIS Analyst - Brisbane

Who we are:

FloodMapp is a rapidly growing technology company looking to expand our team to scale our product across Australia and the United States. Flooding is the costliest natural disaster, causing billions in damage and taking thousands of lives across the globe every year. FloodMapp offers real-time flood forecasting and mapping using cutting edge technology. We work with large organizations across the public and private sector to improve safety and prevent damage in the event of flooding. At FloodMapp, people are our main focus, because hard problems require an exceptional team. As a diverse team, we value empathy, integrity, accountability and communication. Everyone learns from each other. Everyone is passionate about solving a growing global problem and making a global impact. We all work to build a safer future.

Your Roles & Responsibilities:

As a GIS Analyst at FloodMapp, you will support our Flood Operations by collecting and handling high volumes of data and providing mapping services and technical research analysis. You will review, process, digitise and maintain spatial data to support model development and model validation.

At FloodMapp, you will:

• Continuously update our spatial layers to assist the flood operations team with building flood models 
• Assist with importing new GIS layers into various databases 
• Digitize, create, maintain, display and update GIS layers 
• Discover patterns and trends through layer editing (spatially and within an attribute table) 
• Data analysis and manipulation to transform and project data into it its desired form 
• Creating and producing accurate maps for reports and presentations 

Your Skills & Background:

Required:

• Relevant geospatial qualification, or equivalent experience
• Previous experience using a GIS platform such as;
• QGIS
• ArcMap
• MapInfo
• Or other relevant platform
• Layer editing
• Data entry
• Map creation
• Data transformation/projections

It’s great, but not required if you have experience with:

• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Previous experience in the water industry
• Spatial assessments
• Data charting

Who we are looking for:

We’re looking for someone passionate about solving very real and very serious problems at scale. We’re looking for someone who has a mature and professional attitude and work style. There will also be a good bit of agility required in the highly dynamic startup environment, so you should be comfortable with new application development and rapid continuous problem-solving.

Specifically, we are looking for the following attributes:

• Ambition, drive and opinions
• Autonomy, and self direction
• An ownership attitude
• Curiosity and a growth mindset
• Great communication skills
• Humility and respect with the ability to excel in a team environment
• The passion to create a safer future.

This is an excellent opportunity to get in early and work in a fast-moving, venture backed scale-up company determined to build something amazing that helps solve a real-world problem on a global scale.

Your Pay & Perks:

• Bonus paid day of birthday leave each year
• Bonus two paid days of reboot leave each year to promote mental health
• Employee wellness program
• End-of-Trip Facilities: bicycle parking and showers with a complimentary towel service
• Team events & celebrations
• Complimentary snacks and coffee (when working in office)
• We’re based in The Precinct with the QLD AI hub. There are regular tech meetups and social events for all of the startups based in the building

Location:

Brisbane, Australia. You should have full working rights to live and work in Australia.