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Weather Product Specialist
- Full-Time (40+ Hours per week), Paid Time-Off, and Full Benefits offered
- Salary based on education/experience
Job Summary:
- Oversees creation and utilization of IPSM LEADS weather products and scripts to ensure that customer requirements are satisfied.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Identifies and reviews customer requirements for weather products and LEADS scripts.
- Creates customized, visually pleasing, and information-rich products and scripts for customers based on those requirements.
- Troubleshoots product generation and scripting issues with customers.
- Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and assist in problem solving.
- Prepares product and scripting-related reports for presentation to customers, management, and others.
- Trains and assists customers in developing best practices for scripting and product generation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
Degree in meteorology or a related field, or equivalent operational experience. Experience with the IPSM LEADS product line is a plus.
The following additional areas are of high interest:
- Extensive experience with operational meteorological support.
- Forecasting experience.
- Automated weather product generation experience with LEADS.
- Scripting experience with LEADS.
- Ability to provide top-notch customer support.
Hank Fallek, Vice President. 8442 Mackall Road, Saint Leonard, MD, 20685
E-Mail: hfallek@meteostar.com ✆ Phone: +1 410-586-3300
Matt Taylor, General Manager. 99 Inverness Drive East, Suite 130, Englewood, CO, 80112.
Email: mtaylor@meteostar.com ✆ Phone: +1 303-242-5002 x 324
Program Manager
General Job Details:
- Full-Time (40+ Hours per week), Paid Time-Off, and Full Benefits offered
- Salary based on education/experience.
Job Summary:
- Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Reviews project proposals or plans to determine time frame, funding limitations/budget, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, risks, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
- Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
- Confers with project staff to outline work-plans and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
- Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
- Uses IPSM Software Development and Release Management processes to facilitate project completion.
- Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
- Prepares project reports for management, client, or others.
- Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
- Coordinates project activities with activities of government regulatory or other governmental agencies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
Master's degree in a related meteorological or management/organizational field (M.A., M.S, or M.B.A.) or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with the IPSM LEADS product line is a plus.
Experience in the following additional areas is of high interest:
- Agile software development using SCRUM or other project management framework(s)
- Software programming or software programming management experience
- Software design and/or architecture experience
- Contracting or contract negotiations
- General meteorology or forecasting experience
- Foreign language skills, particularly Spanish
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have a strong knowledge of Word Processing software, Spreadsheet software, and Project Management software. A strong general knowledge of computer operations is highly desired. Apple/Mac, and/or Linux experience a plus.
Interested Applicants can send a resume and contact information to:
Hank Fallek, Vice President. 8442 Mackall Road, Saint Leonard, MD, 20685
E-Mail: hfallek@meteostar.com ✆ Phone: +1 410-586-3300
Matt Taylor, General Manager. 99 Inverness Drive East, Suite 130, Englewood, CO, 80112.
Email: mtaylor@meteostar.com ✆ Phone: +1 303-242-5002 x 324
Software Engineer
IPS MeteoStar, a leading international provider of weather analysis/mapping software and weather data products is currently seeking an entry-level Software Engineer for our Engineering Department. The person in this position will be responsible for the following duties:
- Analyze, design, develop, integrate and maintaining the commercial software baselines
- Trouble meteostarshooting and repairing fielded software
- Working with customers to identify and solve problems
- Monitoring and troubleshooting production system
- Works with external and internal clients in the Software Development, Test, and Installation organizations to understand Software Development Life Cycle
- Write unit test and users manual updates for new functionality
- Follow IPSM software development processes and procedures
The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, self-starter able to handle multiple priorities to accurate completion under strict time deadlines. The ability to troubleshoot is a must. A degree in Computer Science or related discipline is desirable, as well as 1 year minimum programming experience. Experience with the following tools and technologies are also desired:
C/C++
QT
JAVA
PERL
Ruby On Rails
Visual Studio
cc, gcc, g++, CC or any other Linux/UNIX compiler
SVN (Subversion)
Tortoise SVN
Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Interested in applying? Please fill out our knowledge survey and application.
To apply for this position, please forward a cover letter, resume, application, and survey to djohnsto@meteostar.com, or by fax: (303)792-3077.