Locations in Snoqualmie, Washington or Salt Lake City, Utah
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Summary:
A successful candidate will provide accurate and timely daily forecasts for a wide variety of clients. These clients include a diverse list including, but not limited to, departments of transportation, cities, counties, airports and schools. Forecasts are provided year round on a 24/7 basis requiring skill in both winter weather and severe weather situations.
Additional project work is possible during slower weather patterns, and may relate to client relations, programming, weather instrumentation installation/maintenance, business development, or continued education.
Responsibilities:
- Produce accurate and timely weather forecasts on a daily basis
- Communicate the forecast to a wide variety of clients in terms of how they are specifically impacted
- Monitoring weather concerns across the country, and producing updates as needed
- Collaborate with other meteorologists on shift to produce consistent forecasts
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Science
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays
- Ability to multitask between producing forecasts, monitoring weather, and answering phone calls
- Ability to arrive at work as well as complete workload in a timely manner
Preferred:
- 3+ years of experience in a professional forecasting role
- Road weather experience, as well as understanding the impacts of road weather
- Pacific Northwest weather forecasting experience
- Mountain weather forecasting experience
- Understanding of various weather models and the differences between them
- Familiarity with Gibson Ridge radar software, radar interpretation skills including dual-polarization products
- Experience working with weather instrumentation in a field environment, specifically RWIS stations. xhqgsiq This could include background on a number of different types of instrumentation, communication and power devices relevant to meteorology field deployments.
Operational Meteorologist in snoqualmie at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.