Assistant State Route GIS Data Steward (TPS3)

About WSDOT

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT leads an award-winning Active Transportation Plan, manages the world's longest floating bridge, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!

The Opportunity

WSDOT is seeking a highly skilled professional to independently perform technical maintenance, analysis, and reporting of the statewide Distance Measuring Instrument (DMI) and Geographic Information System (GIS) based State Route (SR) Linear Referencing System (LRS) and roadway inventory data. Serving as an Assistant SR GIS Data Steward, this position plays critical role in ensuring roadway project changes to roadway characteristics and geometry are accurately reflected in the GIS and tabular data systems to support essential agency systems and business processes, including safety analysis, planning, program management, project development, and maintenance. Strong candidates will possess technical expertise in GIS and roadway data management systems, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, customer service orientation, and the ability to independently manage complex data and ensure its accuracy and integrity.

What to Expect

Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, the Assistant SR Roadway GIS Data Steward will:

• Study construction documents, orthographic imagery, GPS data and field studies to calculate new or changed LRS milepost values and geometry changes and prepare them for data entry. • Collect and prepare for entry transportation facility data changes such as horizontal and vertical curve data from digital and paper contracts/plans, GPS data, field verification trips, road-log video or orthographic imagery. • Record information prepared in the tasks above into the Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI). • Provide technical support to customers of SR data. • Coordinate with system administrators to share SR data to ArcGIS and other cloud platforms for consumption by both internal and external users. • Use ArcGIS Pro, Power BI, FME, and other tools to extract and deliver customized tabular and GIS data for internal and external customers as needed.

Qualifications

To be considered for this opportunity, the following competencies are required :