GIS Technician

Job Title: GIS Technician
Duration: 6 - 12 months
Location: Remote (Tacoma, WA)

Overview:
The client is seeking a full-time remote GIS technician to map and add attributes for approximately 25,000 existing legal documents (primarily deeds, easements and judgements).

This GIS technician will be responsible for the following:
1.) Legal documents received by real property services will be mapped spatially based on their legal description and/or geographical identifier.
2.) These .tif and .pdf documents are stored in a SQL database. Legal descriptions should be mapped digitally using ArcGIS Pro by following the written legal description. Example legal description: "Beginning at a point 1076.107 feet south of the northeast corner of section 25, township 20 north, range 2 east W. M. Thence south 243.892 feet; thence north 89 22' west a distance of 629.99 feet to the east boundary of John Rigney Donation Land Claim in said section 25; thence northerly to a line bearing South 89 22' east through the point of beginning; thence south 89 22' east a distance of 630 feet to the place of beginning”
3.) Once the feature is drawn, mapper fills out the attributes such as TPU Reference Number and County Recording Number which will be provided to technician. TPU's service area spans 5 counties, each of which has their own Recording Number included in any legal document pertaining to property that lies in their jurisdiction.
4.) Finally links to document location are added to the data allowing the users to access the original document by clicking on the described area. Coordinate with IT GIS Staff for QAQC, check mapping accuracy and make edits as needed.

The GIS Technician will need the following:
• Broad understanding of the purposes of different types of legal documents (deeds, easements, vacations, and judgements) and knowledge of how legal documents are related to other documents
• Ability to read and understand legal descriptions
• Ability to digitally draw highly accurate lines and polygons in ArcGIS feature classes based on only written descriptions
• Ability to communicate with Real Estate Specialists as mapping complexities arise

Deliverables: The selected GIS technician is expected to:
• Participate in project kick off
• Map between 50-100 legal documents a month
• Communicate regularly with real property experts when documents are complex
• Ultimately, work with staff to deliver an ArcGIS geodatabase containing the approximately 25,000 mapped legal documents