John Deere Part-Time Student - Geographical Information Systems & Remote Sensing - Champaign, IL

What You’ll DoThe Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company's regular full-time staff, and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule. Multiple positions are available in GIS, web programming, and image processing areas. Major duties include:

• Working at John Deere's Technology Innovation Center (JDTIC) at the University of Illinois research park to support John Deere's information management and analytic initiatives
• Assisting with GIS and Remote Sensing projects including collecting and manipulating a variety of large GIS and remote sensing datasets
• Analyzing data and information to build/improve business processes
• Investigating, researching and managing acquisition of new and meaningful data sources for analytics
• Acting as a member of various project teams within Global Analytic Services to build business solutions

What It TakesWe need excellent communicators, who thrive on solving problems and working in a team environment.  Ideally you will be pursuing a degree in Geography, Earth Science, Computer Science or Statistics; others may qualify.  In addition we require:

• Must be registered as a full-time student at University of Illinois
• Grad date – December 2014 or later 
• Cumulative GPA of 2.8 and above 
• 12 - 20 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
• Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
• Knowledge of spatial data

A strong candidate will also have

• Understanding of data structures, database and data management.
• Software programming skills necessary to formulate queries and to create applications.
• Experience with analytic tools such as R, SAS,SPSS
• Experience with image processing of satellite or aerial imagery
• Experience with GIS application development using software such as ArcGIS or equivalent
• Experiences with web-application (Net, Java, Python, PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Flex) are preferred

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