Azavea is a civic technology firm that uses geospatial data to build software and data analytics for the web.  We’re excited about what we do, we’re growing, and we hope you will join us.

Azavea is based in Philadelphia, and we are looking to grow our Urban Ecosystems team that develops our OpenTreeMap product as well as our projects related to urban forestry and digital humanities.

We are looking for

We’re looking for a software engineer that is passionate about building applications that will have a positive impact – someone interested in public service, but not necessarily in working for a government or a non-profit organization.  We are looking for someone who thrives on working in a variety of technology environments, and wants to build visually slick applications that have well-engineered architectures and provide a responsive user experience.

Who we are and what we’re doing

As a B Corporation, we’re committed to working on projects that have social and civic impact and advancing the state-of-the-art through research.  Most of our customers are local governments, non-profit organizations. and academic or federal research projects.  We build custom apps; perform geospatial analysis; manage several open source civic software projects (DistrictBuilder, OpenTreeMapand others); and develop an open source, high performance computing framework, GeoTrellis, that enables us to build fast analytical applications by distributing the geospatial data processing.  Our developers work across the technology stack from database and application servers in the infrastructure layer to modern, browser-based front-ends.

The Urban Ecosystems Team

Azavea has five software teams, all of which develop web mapping applications that use geospatial data.  The teams differ in terms of the specific projects they develop and whether they are primarily product teams or professional services teams.  The Urban Ecosystems team works on a couple of custom software projects related to urban forestry and digital history, but its primary focus is on developing and supporting OpenTreeMap, an open source SaaS product for tracking urban street trees and other green stormwater infrastructure as well as assessing the ecosystem services impact (stormwater, energy savings, carbon sequestration, air quality, and other impacts).  OpenTreeMap is sold to local and state government and non-profit organizations around the world.  It applies a mix of clever software, distributed processing, and AWS infrastructure to create a compelling urban ecosystem management tool for communities of all sizes.  The Urban Ecosystems team is particularly strong with Javascript, Python, PostgreSQL, and mobile applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Implement application code, APIs, and web or mobile clients based on wireframes and designs developed by our UI/UX Design team.
• Engage in multidisciplinary work that applies an agile process (scrum board, daily stand-ups, and two-week iterations) to database design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment.
• Optimize database, server, and client performance to create applications with both functional and responsive user experiences.
• Build, provision, and deploy servers in a repeatable way to AWS.
• Respond to and assist the OpenTreeMap open source community.
• Contribute to both a growing company and to the open source communities that support our work.

You should:

• Know how to build and support scalable web applications in Python/Django, or another MVC framework (C#/.Net, Ruby/Rails, Java/JVM/Spring, Scala/Play). We do a lot of work in Python/Django, Javascript, and Scala and dabble in others depending on client and project requirements.
• Demonstrate fluency in core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) and contemporary Javascript libraries like jQuery, React, or AngularJS.
• Express solid understanding of MVC architecture, RESTful design patterns, and the DRY principle.
• Be comfortable managing VMs and working in a Linux environment.
• Be interested in working with a small, collaborative team on meaningful projects.
• Get excited about a diversity of both projects and technologies.

You get extra points for:

• Background in math and statistics or experience with R.
• Experience with open source or commercial geospatial toolkits like OpenLayers, Leaflet, GeoServer, PostGIS, CartoDB, ArcGIS, and GoogleMaps.
• Experience with mobile apps (Objective C, Android or responsive HTML).
• Experience scaling apps within AWS.
• Experience provisioning servers with Ansible.
• Knowledge of distributed data processing frameworks, like Hadoop, Amazon MR, etc.
• Demonstrating your open source or other community service contributions.
• Background in projects related to sustainability and the environment.

You’ll notice that we don’t say “X-Y years of experience” or “M.S. in Computer Science.”  Formal credentials like these are not irrelevant, but we are primarily looking for people who have had experience successfully building sophisticated web applications.  You might have had these kinds of experiences without a college degree.  Or you may be just out of school but worked your way through school and had some great co-op experiences.  Or you might have a math or humanities background but a have a great head for software development.  These are all potentially great backgrounds, and we’d be interested in hearing from you.

Office and Benefits

Our Philadelphia office is located in a brightly lit office on the 5^th floor of a converted factory building in the Callowhill neighborhood, a short walk from Center City, the Reading Terminal Market and SEPTA subway and regional rail stations.

For bicyclists, we have in-house bike parking, a shower and lockers.  It’s an open office plan with several smaller rooms for team meetings, private space and concentration time.

You get a top-end Linux workstation, Mac or Windows laptop with a pile of memory for VMs and extra monitors.  We have flex-time to deal with personal stuff, and most people work a 40 – 45 hour week on a regular schedule.  After the first six months, our developers can also spend up to 10% of their time on a geospatial open source, professional development, or R&D project. For example, some of our colleagues are contributors to the PostGIS, OpenLayers, GDAL and GeoTrellis projects.  Other research projects have included improving dev ops tool chains; using FFT for fast kernel density estimation; working with Spark to develop machine learning tools; and using GPUs for faster raster data processing.  Once a quarter, we all get together to share our research and learning with our colleagues.
We offer a salary commensurate with skills and experience and a benefits package that includes:

• Fully subsidized health care, dental, prescription plan, including for spouse/partner and children
• Fully subsidized life and long term disability insurance, plus voluntary short term disability insurance
• Medical reimbursement plan to cover what the health insurance does not
• Retirement plan with matching percentage
• Almost 4 weeks paid vacation plus additional paid sick/personal time off
• Family and medical leave
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Child care subsidy
• Paid time off for voting and volunteering
• Education assistance plan
• Student loan assistance
• Public transit and biking reimbursement plans
• Monthly guest lectures with lunches on the house
• 10% time for Research or Training Projects
• Profit-sharing bonus plan
• Financial transparency through an open book policy
• Kind, capable and thoughtful colleagues

We welcome qualified candidates from all walks of life and value diversity in our company, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, military service, disability unrelated to job requirements, marital status, or domestic partner status.

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Requisition #1893

The Planning Commission seeks a Transportation Planner within the Transportation Division. The position, classified as a Planner II, provides professional consulting services to local municipalities, development of transportation plans, and policies, and County representation in regional transportation forums.

Responsibilities: Successful management of planning projects and to assist in the completion of division work program activities. The successful candidate must demonstrate a competency level in transportation planning and project implementation. Demonstrated knowledge shall include an understanding of the Transportation Improvement Plan and a working knowledge of regional
transportation partners, including the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, PennDOT, SEPTA, and TMAs.

Requirements: The candidate must possess excellent verbal, writing, and computer skills, including Microsoft Office and ESRI ArcGIS products. Experience in 3D modeling using ESRI ArcScene, CityEngine and/or Sketchup is desired, but not required. Candidates should demonstrate experience in preparing concept improvement plans, summarizing quantitative data, delivering presentations, and
authoring technical reports. AICP certification preferred but not required.

Minimum Requirements: a Master’s Degree in Planning, Geography, or a related field, or a Bachelor’s Degree with three years of job experience.

Position Type
Full-Time / Exempt

Salary Information
Salary range available beginning at $41,308.54 annually based on education and experience.

Shift
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Weekly Hours
35

Deadline
Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Other Information
Original posting date: April 27, 2016

http://www.sbnphiladelphia.org/jobs/view/program_associate1/

Deborah Cerbone Associates, Far Hills, NJ

Deborah Cerbone Associates, Inc. is a small, boutique-type Landscape Architecture practice with a specialty in Equestrian Site Planning.  I am looking for a specialty Landscape Architect to add to our staff that has a strong knowledge and passion for horses.  We have recently added an equestrian site planning specialty to our well established LA practice in Far Hills, NJ, realizing there is a void in the profession for these services.  If you’ll Google Equestrian Landscape Architects, you’ll see there are only 4-5 in the country.   I travel a lot for my business and pleasure, so it’s important for me to find someone that lives and breathes horses that can be in my NJ office full time, or travel with me if or when needed.  I would ideally love someone with 3 or more years of experience, but would consider someone with less if they are passionate about their work and learning the business of Landscape Architecture. Our practice is about 80% high end residential or equestrian properties, along with a smattering of institutional, commercial, recreational and corporate projects added to the mix.  We play close attention to detail and the natural sciences play an important role in our designs.  Our projects are generally in the NJ, NY, PA area as well as MT where we have a satellite office. Our ideal candidate would have strong design and communication skills, and their graphic skills should include the full realm of computer graphics programs as well as strong hand sketching capabilities.
Please send samples of your work along with a complete resume outlining your experience to Deb@dcerboneassoc.com

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Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country and we move America’s workforce toward the future. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority and the success of our railroad is the result of our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
This position is responsible for planning and directing the track outage and resource scheduling for both Division and System capital projects within the Engineering Department. Planning efforts encompass all phases of projects, from conception to completion. Works with other Disciplines within the Engineering Department to coordinate construction schedules into an integrated plan.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
•Develops a detailed, integrated construction schedule in support of Amtrak’s capital and reimbursable construction programs, totaling more than $350 million annually, and incorporating standard principles of project management.
•Develops track project plan based upon the most appropriate outage: continuous outages – 24 / 7, weekend outages – 55 hour, and extended outages – exceeding single shift.
•Works with Division Superintendents of Operations to provide most efficient outage type(s) for each project; taking into account the impact on project cost and schedule as well as service impacts. This must take into account the needs of Amtrak, commuter partners and freight carriers.
•Works with staff of Deputy Chief Engineer Maintenance of Way to ensure that appropriate work teams are assigned to projects.
•Works within the Engineering Department to ensure that support from other Disciplines (C&S, ET and Structures) is available to meet the plan.
•Provides guidance on constructability in developing project schedules, including phasing.
•Monitors project and program implementation against plan, acting on significant variances.
•Supports other Departments in articulating Amtrak’s capital strategy, plan and progress against plan to outside agencies.
•Responsible for schedule projections for the Track Department’s 5 year Capital Plan for submission to internal and external customers.
•Conducts scheduled “debriefings” within Engineering Department personnel to identify where construction schedule templates need to be updated and or modified.
•Meets with project staff, both in the office and at construction sites, to get status updates against planned activities.
•Works with project manager to integrate project duration and outages into cost estimate.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
•Experience with railway engineering design and maintenance or combination of education and railway engineering work experience
•Must have demonstrated railway engineering and/or track design experience
•Must become qualified in RWP, AMT-2 and MW-1000
•Must be able to understand complex planning issues, anticipate conflicts and prepare delay and impact analysis. •Must be able to articulate trade-off implications to stakeholders.
•Candidate will have demonstrated experience building complex construction schedules incorporating critical path, resource loading, cost loading, and the use of lag, milestone and constraint relationships.
•Must have demonstrated experience in conceptualizing and developing large projects and programs sufficient to prioritize, schedule and assign tasks and responsibilities to subordinates in support of departmental goals.
•Strong safety focus.
•Suitable candidate must have thorough understanding of Project Management principles and experience in developing WBS and cost and resource loaded schedules on railroad infrastructure projects
•Individual must possess strong interpersonal communication and group leadership skills and must be able to work effectively as a project team member.

PREFERRED WORK EXPERIENCE:
•Extensive railway engineering and/or track design experience
•Professional Engineering registration or the ability to obtain it
•PMI certification is desirable.

PREFERRED EDUCATION:
•Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or the equivalent combination of technical training and experience in Project Management.

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
•Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Yes

SF:LI

Requisition ID:20482
Posting Location(s):Pennsylvania
Personnel Area:PA08
Job Family/Function:Engineering
Relocation Offered:Yes
Education Requirements:High School/GED
Travel Requirements:Up to 50%
Employment Experience Requirements:8 – 10 years of experience

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We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job – we want it to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging and rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, competitive pay, benefits that protect you and your family, and a high performance culture that recognizes and values your contributions and helps you reach your career goals.

We proudly support and encourage U.S. Veterans to apply for Amtrak job opportunities.

All positions require pre-employment background verification, medical review and pre-employment drug screen. Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.