What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hydrographic Surveyor/Hydrographer position at Prairie Engineers, P.C.?
Prairie Engineers, P.C. is seeking a Hydrographic Surveyor/Hydrographer to join our team.
Join a collaborative team that fuels your growth and rewards your dedication. We're a team looking to make a lasting impact and want people who embrace challenges, drive change, and help shape our collective future. If that's you, let's connect!
This position includes both field and office assignments and will require extensive travel to locations throughout the U.S. with occasional international travel possible. This isn't an easy position; we work long days in sometimes harsh conditions as well as remote locations. But if you are looking for a challenge and enjoy developing solutions to get the job done well, we may be the right fit for you!
You must be able and willing to be a highly responsible, capable, and contributing member of our team, able to utilize technology, and think on your feet. This position will be full-time with paid travel expenses, per diem allowance for meals, and is available to be filled in several of our offices. As part of our award-winning company, we will work with you to achieve career success!
What you Need:
Generous Benefits:
Prairie Engineers is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information (including family medical history), or any other legally protected status.
Potential candidates for this position should fill out the application form found at prairieengineers.com and submit with cover letter and resume. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
Join a collaborative team that fuels your growth and rewards your dedication. We're a team looking to make a lasting impact and want people who embrace challenges, drive change, and help shape our collective future. If that's you, let's connect!
This position includes both field and office assignments and will require extensive travel to locations throughout the U.S. with occasional international travel possible. This isn't an easy position; we work long days in sometimes harsh conditions as well as remote locations. But if you are looking for a challenge and enjoy developing solutions to get the job done well, we may be the right fit for you!
You must be able and willing to be a highly responsible, capable, and contributing member of our team, able to utilize technology, and think on your feet. This position will be full-time with paid travel expenses, per diem allowance for meals, and is available to be filled in several of our offices. As part of our award-winning company, we will work with you to achieve career success!
What you Need:
- Experience: 2 years performing hydrographic surveys or 4 years as a land surveyor with a strong desire to expand expertise as demonstrated by the willingness to take hydrographic survey coursework outside of working hours
- Travel: Willingness to travel within the United States to meet project requirements
- Safety: A valid driver's license and a clean driving record
- People Focused: Professional, respectful, and teamoriented, with a strong work ethic and the ability to collaborate internally and externally
- Can Do Attitude: Positively engages with challenges, facilitates problemsolving, and takes initiative to deliver solutions
- Responsive: Communicates openly, proactively, and promptly, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Surveying, Civil Engineering, Hydrography, or a related science field
- Certification: NSPS/THSOA Certification as a Hydrographer or Certified Survey Technician
- Licensure: Professional Surveyor or Surveyor Intern
- More Experience: Field control, topographic, and boundary surveys and CAD/GIS experience
- Safe operation of small motor vessels in a variety of inland lakes and river environments and occasionally in nearcoastal waters
- Lead and perform hydrographic surveys using HYPACK software and singlebeam, multibeam, sidescan sonar, subbottom profiler, magnetometer, and other stateoftheart sensors and methods along with GPS positioning, LIDAR, and various Inertial Motion Sensors
- Perform and check office surveys including reduction of hydrographic surveys using HYPACK and other software, performing least squared and compass rule computations, and volume and area calculations
- Travel, often on short notice, and work safely in various locations and all types of weather conditions
Generous Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Medical Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Arrangement
- Voluntary Dental/Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Professional and Technical Development
- Bonus Program
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Schedules
Prairie Engineers is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information (including family medical history), or any other legally protected status.
Potential candidates for this position should fill out the application form found at prairieengineers.com and submit with cover letter and resume. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
Salary : $52,000 - $156,000
