Geospatial Data Analyst

Cabin Resource Management Ltd. • Kelowna, BC

1d • CA$75,000 - CA$95,000

About The Position

Cabin Resources Management Ltd. is seeking a Geospatial Data Analyst to join their company. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about geospatial data manipulation and analysis, Geo AI, programming, and working within the natural resource sector. The company has a strong foundation in forestry, wildfire, heritage, and geospatial divisions, emphasizing quality and innovative solutions.

Requirements

• Degree or diploma in Geographic Information Systems, Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2-5 years’ experience working within the natural resource sector in British Columbia.
• Domain knowledge of forestry: understanding of forest management and forest ecology at the landscape-level; ability to interpret and represent forest policy and management guidance in spatial and quantitative analysis.
• Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Python, SQL, R, Arcade, ArcPy, JavaScript, HTM, including a strong ability to troubleshoot scripts, debug code, and diagnose errors in complex geospatial models.
• Strong ability to work effectively independently and with multidisciplinary teams throughout the company.
• Strong working knowledge of Git workflows (branching, merging, resolving conflicts, and rebasing) in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to produce descriptive statistics from tabular data sets; training and evaluation of regression models, clustering and segmentation.
• Organizational skills related to data archiving, change tracking, structure, and other data management standards.

Nice To Haves

• Domain knowledge of wildfire planning, prevention, and modelling: understanding of wildfire behavior and analysis, wildfire fuel types, community and landscape level wildfire planning (wildfire operations for suppression and tactical planning).
• Experience with wildfire exposure, vulnerability, and burn probability simulators including Prometheus, Cell2Fire, BurnP3+.
• Experience in developing, training, and validating ML/DL models to predict wildfire behavior, probability, and risk mapping by integrating climate data, historical fire perimeters, and real-time weather feeds.
• Solutions-oriented mindset, honesty and authenticity (even when times are tough), ability to tackle difficult problems, creative thinking, problem solving and someone who really, really likes being on a cool team.
• Current registrant or registrant in training as an FIT, RFT, RPF, PAg, AAg.

Responsibilities

• Development, deployment and maintenance of analytical geospatial tools and models for the Forestry and Wildfire Divisions.
• Conducting analysis in support of Forestry and Wildfire Planning projects, leveraging remote sensing data including satellite, LiDAR and drone acquired data.
• Lead GIS analysis projects from conception to completion including defining project scopes, timelines, and deliverables.
• Work with forestry and wildfire planners, and other divisional managers to develop geospatial solutions and workflows.
• Preparing, writing and presenting report recommendations and resultant outputs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• A positive, dynamic and inclusive work environment for everyone
• Wage and biannual profit share based on experience, competency and length of service
• Training and professional development allowance
• Extended medical and dental benefits
• RRSP contributions after one year of service
• Flexible holidays and 20 cm snow rule for winter shredding

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree