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Survey Project Manager

Balzer & Associates
Staunton, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Looking for a terrific place to build your career and write your own success story?

Balzer & Associates is searching for a Survey Project Manager. This is an incredible opportunity to lead and grow with an extremely successful firm. At Balzer & Associates, we have been delivering design solutions to clients for over 50 years and are looking for the right team members to contribute to our mission of serving the community. Our employees are recognized as the essential pillars to our development and success; therefore, our focus is on taking exceptional care of not only our clients, but of our team.

When you join our team, you are exposed to all aspects of the design process. As a multi-disciplinary firm, our staff has the unique opportunity to interact, learn, and grow in a collaborative environment where knowledge is gained every day. Our diversity of work and disciplines affords our professionals the opportunity to be involved with a wide variety of projects that provide a foundation on which an outstanding career can be built.

Balzer & Associates offers a competitive, robust benefit package to full-time employees consisting of medical, dental and vision insurance; 401k match; PTO & paid holidays; annual bonus program, discretionary profit sharing, educational reimbursement, employee engagement events, financial wellness education, and other valuable benefits.

Job Summary :

The Survey Project Manager is responsible for the planning, processing, evaluation, quality control, documentation, reporting, platting and production of survey services and deliverables. The incumbent is experienced and has proficiency and broad knowledge of land surveying field work, data collection, Survey and CADD standards and practices, DPOR rules and regulations, local ordinances and processes as they pertain to the practice of land surveying, survey services, products and deliverables. The employee understands, abides, enforces, promotes, and innovates on the Standard Operating Procedures, Core Values and Principles of the Survey Department and the Company. They are also called on to assist the Survey Department Head with management, education and administrative duties of the department.

Duties and Responsibilities :

  • Verifies the accuracy of survey data including measurements and calculations taken at surveying sites
  • Directs or conducts surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties based on legal deeds and titles.
  • Prepares or supervises the preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys
  • Coordinates findings with the work of the engineering and architectural personnel, clients and others concerned with the projects
  • Trains assistants and helpers and directs their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps
  • Analyzes survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation
  • Computes geodetic measurements and interprets survey data to determine positions, shapes and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features
  • Develops criteria for survey methods and procedures
  • Conducts research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing

Required Skills and Abilities :

  • Ability to direct the work of others and direct a project
  • Ability to problem solve
  • Ability to comprehend
  • Ability to effectively present information to others
  • Ability to calculate proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra, trigonometry, and geometry
  • Ability to carry out detailed instructions
  • Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products
  • Proficient in AutoCAD and other discipline specific software; uses software effectively to complete work efficiently and accurately
  • Has appropriate level of knowledge of office and survey equipment
  • Physical Requirements :

  • The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, and climb or balance
  • The employee is occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
  • The employee regularly works in outside weather conditions
  • The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate
  • Education and Experience :

  • High school degree or the equivalent
  • Professional license in Virginia for the discipline represented
  • Valid Virginia driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record
  • Progressive experience as a survey instrument person, survey crew chief and related experience and / or training
  • Competencies Required :

  • Budget
  • Communication
  • Customer Service
  • Decision Making
  • Employee Development
  • Employee Management
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Technical Skills
  • Other Duties :

    Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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