Principal Geomatics Specialist
industrial_energy_operations › Geomatics · P6 — P6 — Principal Professional · Individual contributor
Serves as the top individual-contributor authority on surveying, mapping, and spatial-data practices supporting oil and gas project planning and land management.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Serves as the top individual-contributor authority on surveying, mapping, and spatial-data practices supporting oil and gas project planning and land management. At the Principal Professional (P6) level, the role owns organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems, strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future, and drives organization-wide. Recognized authority; multiplies many teams.
What this level does
- Conceive, plan, and execute complex geomatics programs and manage a large technical organization spanning field, GIS, LiDAR/InSAR, and CAD disciplines
- Determine objectives, set priorities, and delegate work; use imagination to develop new insights and design new methods where established survey/spatial-analysis methods are inapplicable or unavailable
- Formulate policies and organization-wide standards governing geospatial data management, acquisition, and product delivery
- Serve as expert authority and strategic advisor on the most complex spatial projects, providing high-level mentorship to senior professionals
- Knowledge applied
- Applies principal-level mastery to conceive and execute complex programs and to design new methods where established survey/spatial-analysis approaches do not apply.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves the most complex geomatics problems and sets objectives and priorities across a large technical organization.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Acts as expert authority and strategic advisor; provides high-level mentorship to senior professionals and delegates across disciplines.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years; principal expert, often with graduate study, licensure, and program leadership.
Skills at this level
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- — Manages, maps, and analyzes spatially referenced data using GIS platforms such as ArcGIS and QGIS to produce and interpret geospatial deliverables.
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Survey Drafting
- — Produces legal and engineering survey products — plans, drawings, and mapping outputs — to specification using CAD techniques.
- Field Survey Instrumentation
- — Operates survey instruments in the field and processes the resulting survey data to produce plans that meet required tolerances and specification.
- LiDAR, InSAR and Digital Imagery Processing
- — Develops and manages large spatial and attribute datasets from LiDAR, InSAR, and digital imagery sources, ensuring their structure, standards, and integrity.
- Spatial Data QA/QC
- — Performs quality assurance and quality control of spatial data against industry standards and documented procedures to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Geospatial Project Management
- — Manages geomatics projects across procurement, acquisition, production, and QA/QC, coordinating field and office work and portions of a budget.
- Geospatial Data Standards & Regulatory Compliance
- — Ensures data collection and analysis comply with industry standards and regulations, and defines data management standards for datasets and products.
- Applied Spatial Analysis & Modelling
- — Applies analytical and modelling methods to interpret geospatial data, reconcile multi-sensor datasets, and advise on data application and interpretation.
- Technical Reporting & Stakeholder Consultation
- — Prepares client-ready reports and presentations of spatial analyses and consults interdisciplinary stakeholders and clients to gather feedback and resolve issues.
- GIS User Support & Training
- — Provides technical support and training to technical and non-technical users on the operation and application of geographic information systems.
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