# Production Specialist/Cartographer - Middle

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: St. Louis, MO
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $59,150.00 - $106,925.00
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

We are seeking a talented Cartographer to join our team as a Production Specialist/Cartographer - Middle. The role requires a strong understanding of geography, cartographic finishing principles, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to produce, edit, and review high-quality maps and charts while ensuring timely, accurate mission support.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Produce, edit, and review national and international maps and charts at various scales using established cartographic standards.

- Create and maintain standard mapping products, including:

+ Topographic Map (TM)   + MGCP Topographic Map (MTM)   + Image City Map (ICM)   + Joint Operations Graphic (JOG)   + Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC)   + Jet Navigation Chart (JNC)   + Global Navigation Chart (GNC)   + Operational Navigation Chart (ONC)   + Evacuation Chart (EVC)

- Attribute, conflate, edit, exploit, extract, format, manipulate, merge, position, and symbolize geospatial information to produce finished map/chart products and perform quality assurance reviews.

- Analyze and evaluate Foundation data for coverage, accuracy, currency, completeness, and applicability to mission requirements.

- Participate in technical exchanges with Government, industry partners, academia, military, civil partners, and geographically dispersed teams.

- Support mission readiness by developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), creating training guides, and mentoring team members.

**Skills and Experience**

- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and/or 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.

- Active TS/SCI with willingness to get CI Poly.

- Demonstrated experience in cartographic finishing, feature extraction, and data content management.

- Knowledge of Feature Data Specifications or Product Specifications (DPS) to include, the Topographic Data Store (TDS) and Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP) schemas, Data Product Specification (DPS), and/or Standard Information Guidance (SIG) for GEOINT product lines.

- Knowledge of digital data formats including, vector data, shapefile and spatial database, GML, and Extensible Markup Language (XML).

- Knowledge and skills necessary to edit, merge, and/or conflate geospatial content.

- Experience finding and using resources/webservices/websites as they pertain to features/attributes required for portrayal on map/charts.

- Demonstrated expertise with cartographic finishing software and automation tools, such as Cartographic Web Services (CWS), Digital Cartographic Studio (DCS), ArcGIS Desktop/Pro and extensions, and/or Cartographic Automation Production Solution (CAPS).

- Demonstrated experience performing geo-locational mensuration functions, extract coordinates and positional relationships from digital database systems.

- Demonstrated experience performing imagery interpretation from various imagery sources to validate features present on or missing from map/chart products and the underlying feature data.

- Basic experience using a geospatial database.

- Demonstrated experience communicating technical aspects of the cartographic product finishing tradecraft with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.

- Experience with combining digital cartography, computer technology, GIS, cartographic and geospatial production techniques, remote sensing, photogrammetry, and digital data formats.

- Experience performing Quality Control and/or Quality Assurance of maps/chart using documented specifications and standards.

**Desired Skills**

- Experience in developing production schedules in order to deliver customer requirements on-time or ahead of the due date.

- Experience with Python scripting.

- Experience serving in a supervisory or Technical Lead work role.

- Experience training coworkers or others in cartographic techniques and best practices.

- Familiarity with emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, tools, and methodologies, with an understanding of their applications, implications, and integration into daily geospatial and intelligence workflows.

## Skills

### Required
- cartographic finishing
- feature extraction
- data content management
- GIS
- geospatial information
- cartographic software
- automation tools
- geo-locational mensuration
- imagery interpretation
- geospatial database
- technical communication

### Nice to have
- Python scripting
- supervisory experience
- Technical Lead experience
- training experience
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies

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