Senior Manager, Geomatics
industrial_energy_operations › Geomatics · M4 — M4 — Director · Management
Senior manager overseeing surveying, mapping, and spatial-data teams supporting oil and gas project planning and land management.
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What this role is
Senior manager overseeing surveying, mapping, and spatial-data teams supporting oil and gas project planning and land management. At the Director (M4) level, the role owns a function or department, strategic priorities and cross-functional alignment, and drives function-level results. Leads managers; sets direction for the function.
What this level does
- Manages multiple geomatics sections spanning field crews and office technical staff, holding responsible charge for combined public and private sector land and spatial projects
- Sets functional strategy for spatial data capture and processing methods aligned with broader business objectives, where failures could jeopardize project delivery
- Engages senior leaders and major clients on geomatics strategy, standards, and specialized capabilities such as geodetic surveying and LiDAR scanning
- Oversees resource allocation, budgets, and quality governance across concurrent large-scale mapping and geodatabase programs
- Establishes hiring, capability, and technology-adoption plans to keep the geomatics function competitive
- Knowledge applied
- Sets functional strategy for spatial data methods aligned with business objectives across multiple sections.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Strategic policy issues where errors could jeopardize combined field-and-office project delivery.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Engages senior leaders and major clients on geomatics strategy and specialized capabilities.
- Typical experience
- 8–10+ years leading complex, multi-team geomatics organizations.
Skills at this level
- Geomatics Team Leadership
- — Directs field crews and office technical staff performing surveying, GIS, and geospatial data work, holding responsible charge for combined public and private sector land projects.
- Geospatial Database Governance
- — Sets standards for organizing, cleaning, and maintaining geospatial databases and large-scale geodatabases with multiple inputs to ensure data integrity and accuracy across projects.
- Spatial Analysis Oversight
- — Guides and reviews advanced geoprocessing and buffer-overlay analysis used to inform urban planning, environmental impact assessment, and transportation optimization decisions.
- Mapping Deliverable QA
- — Establishes and enforces quality-assurance processes for mapping products and deliverables before release to clients and stakeholders.
- Geospatial Automation Strategy
- — Directs the development of custom automation tools in Python or FME to streamline spatial data processing and mapping production at scale.
- Remote Sensing & LiDAR Program Direction
- — Sets direction for the acquisition and processing of satellite imagery, GNSS data, and LiDAR scanning as core inputs to the geomatics function.
- Stakeholder Communication
- — Explains geospatial assessments and presents complex spatial data in accessible reports and presentations to public- and private-sector stakeholders and executives.
- Cross-Disciplinary Coordination
- — Aligns geomatics teams with engineers, project managers, and data processors so spatial deliverables meet downstream engineering and planning needs.
- Geomatics Project Management
- — Designs, resources, and tracks complex mapping projects spanning field data collection and office analysis, managing scope, schedule, and budget.
- GIS Platform Standards (ArcGIS/QGIS)
- — Defines organizational standards for spatial data processing and mapping on ArcGIS and QGIS to ensure consistent, competitive geomatics deliverables.
- Geospatial Technology Strategy
- — Sets multi-year investment and capability roadmaps for surveying, remote sensing, and geospatial data infrastructure with business-wide implications.
- Talent & Capability Development
- — Builds geoprocessing, database, and analysis competencies across the geomatics workforce and develops the leadership bench that sustains delivery.
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