Sr. Specialist, GIS

Mast Reforestation

Seattle, Washington, United States

Posted on: 2023-04-13

Category: climate

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

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About the company:

Mast Reforestation is a climate tech company with a mission to make reforestation scalable. As bigger, hotter, and more frequent fires increasingly destroy forested land each year, Mast facilitates faster, more resilient forest regeneration. Mast provides vertically integrated reforestation services to get forest restoration projects up and running in weeks, not years. Services include seed collection, seedling cultivation, site preparation, seedling hand planting, aerial drone-based seeding, and ongoing site monitoring. To fund its projects and open new revenue streams for landowners, Mast sells forward-looking carbon removal credits that allow companies seeking carbon neutrality to invest in reforestation projects for 200 years or more. Mast’s investors include Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Social Capital, DBL Partners, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, and more. To learn more, visit MastReforest.com.

About Mast Reforestation:

Mast Reforestation is working to make reforestation scalable. We combine tech and traditional forestry methods to reforest land affected by wildfires with forward-looking carbon offsets to fund it all. The company is a vertically-integrated provider of reforestation services to get projects up and running in weeks, not years: planning, the largest seed and seedling supplies in the West, massive nursery operations, and seeding and planting execution. To fund its operations and open new revenue streams for landowners, Mast Reforestation sells forward-looking carbon offsets that lock in CO2 removal for at least 100 years, among the first of their kind available on the voluntary offset market.

Mast Reforestation HQ: Ballard Brewery District, Seattle, WA

Silvaseed HQ: Roy, WA

Cal Forest HQ: Etna, CA

Team size: ~160

Clients: 3 of 5 largest timber companies, nonprofits such as The Nature Conservancy, Tribal Nations, state and federal agencies, small family forests

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What you’ll be doing:

As a Sr. GIS Specialist, you will be part of a detailed-oriented and driven team that supports the evaluation and development of our customer projects and operations through remote sensing data analysis, managing large datasets, assisting with planning tree planting events, and creating maps and GIS data assets for our internal and external customers. You will be integral to the entire project planning life cycle, which includes evaluating geodata, processing satellite and multispectral imagery, maintaining the metadata and the organization of large quantities of spatial data, using custom software to gather and process data, and identifying and digitizing eligible reforestation area, exclusion zones, and operational units. Finally, you’ll partner closely with our operations, forestry, and product teams to enhance our ability to reforest effectively and improve our data collection process in order to deliver better insights to our customers.

Mast Reforestation and its subsidiaries offer:

- Competitive salary

- Location-based compensation

- 75% health insurance coverage for Full-Time non-seasonal employees, including Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans

- Company’s incentive stock options (ISO)

- Retirement saving plan: 401(k) and Roth 401(k)

- Commuter Benefits in eligible cities

- 6 paid holidays. Two shut-down weeks per year.

- Flexible PTO for Salaried employees. Generous PTO accrual for Hourly employees.

- Allowances for Work-from-home employees

- Relocation support for out-of-state employees

You have the following skills and experience:

Bachelor’s degree required in Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Science, Forestry, Computer Science or a related field.

2+ years of experience using GIS software to perform standard spatial analyses and create GIS and map assets to face challenging real-world environmental problems. Experience in open-source software (QGIS), spatial data process libraries, Python and/or R, SQL, and command-line tools and workflows are a plus.

Demonstrated knowledge of photogrammetry, and experience in processing LiDAR and multispectral data, high-resolution satellite imagery, and aerial photo interpretation.

Experience working with large quantities of spatial data with excellent organization and data management skills.

Ability to manage requests from various departments, juggle multiple priorities, and create high-quality deliverables.

Desire and ability to work independently and autonomously.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an innate attention to detail.

Knowledge or experience in forestry, suitability analysis, landscape/landuse modeling, the greater carbon market or a related field is a plus.

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