Posted by Bree Barksdale

Now Hiring – Field Mapping Technician

Posted: 04/28/2025

Requirements

• Perform assigned tasks in a professional and ethical manner
• Working or ability to obtain knowledge of GIS concepts
• Willing to travel and work flexible/additional hours to meet project timelines
• Ability to meet tight deadlines while juggling multiple projects
• Excellent communication
• Solid organizational skills
• Willingness to learn and adapt

Job Tasks

• Collect mapping data within buildings
• Follow nSide data collection standards
• Provide daily feedback on project progress to the Field Mapping Crew Chief
• Follow best health and safety practices as part of a field mapping team while maintaining a safe work environment
• Position and hold 360 cameras for collection of nSide|Views.
• Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
• Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
• Produce or update overlay maps to show building layouts, critical infrastructure, and 360-degree photospheres on various base maps or at different scales.

Skills & Knowledge

• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Time Management — Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Abilities

• Time Management — Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Benefits

• Group health and dental insurance is offered for eligible nSide employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama.
• Both the health and dental insurance offerings include individual and family coverage.
• Group vision insurance is offered for eligible nSide employees – available for individual and family coverage.
• A group life insurance plan for eligible employees is offered by nSide – the group life insurance plan is fully paid by nSide.

About nSide, Inc.:

nSide is a school safety company based in Florence, Alabama that cares for today’s most pressing threats and security challenges. We strive to answer the hard questions and provide the best solutions for school safety, as we integrate all threads of communication alongside advanced technologies. After more than a decade of serving in over 2,000 different schools, we need someone to join our efforts in keeping children and teachers safe.