Geotechnical InSAR Analyst

About SkyGeo Netherlands B.V.

SkyGeo provides clients with essential geotechnical insights, helping them understand ground movement impact on valuable assets at an early stage. With an excellent and diverse team, SkyGeo treats InSAR as a professional service and aims to enhance its ability to provide these insights at scale. The company seeks individuals eager to build the business and grow professionally by discovering wide-ranging applications.

Your Role & Impact as a Geotechnical InSAR Analyst

As a Geotechnical InSAR Analyst, you will be a highly skilled engineer or geoscientist, ideally with a strong background in geotechnical engineering or geology within the mining industry.

• Analyze SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and InSAR (Interferometric SAR) products, specifically focusing on mines and mining customers.
• Dive deep into InSAR outputs and other remote sensing data.
• Apply your expertise in geotechnical analysis to optimize mining operations, detect geohazards, and support client decision-making processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Client Collaboration: Engage with mining industry stakeholders (mining companies and geotechnical teams) to understand their specific requirements and challenges.
• InSAR Data Analysis & Interpretation: Identify and monitor ground deformation, slope instability, subsidence, and other geological phenomena related to mining activities. Interpret InSAR results using the SkyGeo interactive platform and provide technical expertise, support, insightful presentations, and reports.
• Contextual Analysis & Geohazard Detection: Ingest and analyze GIS data to put processing outputs into the context of the mining operation. Identify and assess potential geohazards, such as slope or dam instability and ground subsidence, using InSAR data.
• Reporting: Generate clear and concise reports, maps, and visualizations to communicate InSAR results effectively to mining clients. Present findings in a comprehensible manner, including technical documentation and presentations.

Project Management Responsibilities

Project management will constitute approximately 10-15% of your time and is crucial for project success:

• Ensure internal and external coordination between the SkyGeo and client teams.
• Oversee recurring monitoring activities, including coordinating timelines, tracking deliverable status, and ensuring timely delivery of reports and clear customer communication.
• Organize structured internal project check-ins and external client meetings.
• Support continuous improvement by tracking open action items, flagging risks to the project team, and ensuring follow-up and project documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in geomatics, remote sensing, geophysics, geology, engineering, or a related field.
• Engineering/Geology: Understanding of geology, mining engineering, and rock mechanics principles.
• Experience: At least two years of experience working in mining operations in a geotechnical or adjacent role.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to interpret complex geospatial data. The ability to synthesize information from multiple sources is also required.
• Communication: Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present technical information to diverse audiences. Full Professional Proficiency in English is required.
• Organizational & Project Management: Strong organizational and timeline-management skills, including experience with project tracking tools. Proven ability to manage recurring deliverables (e.g., bi-weekly or monthly reports) with consistent on-time completion is essential.
• Work Style: Ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously. Attention to detail is required, with a focus on quality control and data validation.

Desired Qualifications

• Geospatial Tools: Experience with GIS environments (QGIS, ArcGIS, etc.).
• Monitoring Systems: Experience working with ground-based monitoring systems (Ground based radar, prism/survey data, GNSS).
• InSAR/Remote Sensing: Knowledge of SAR imaging principles, interferometry, and InSAR processing techniques. Experience working with SAR data from satellites (e.g., Sentinel-1, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X). Experience working with other remote sensing data (optical, multi-spectral, LIDAR) or topographic data.
• Domain Specific Experience: Experience in processing InSAR data over mining areas or similar complex environments.
• Advanced Techniques: Familiarity with machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques applied to remote sensing data.

What’s In It For You

• Team Environment: Diverse international team (10+ nationalities).
• Location: Headoffice in the historical city center of Delft. On-site.
• Career Growth: Start-up environment offering significant freedom for initiative, personal, and career growth.
• Category: Data Analytics.

Key skills/competency

• InSAR Data Analysis
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Mining Operations
• Remote Sensing
• GIS Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Geohazard Detection
• Data Interpretation
• Client Communication
• SAR Imaging