Survey Party Chief

United Infrastructure Group continues to be a leader in the transportation construction industry in the southeast with a 90 year history of delivering successful projects by hiring exceptional employees to work in a professional family environment. UIG is committed to developing the best workforce possible by constantly recruiting, training, and promoting construction industry professionals throughout our organization.

Primary Function of a Surveyor: Responsible for precise measurements to determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape and contour of ground surfaces for civil engineering and heavy construction.

Our comprehensive benefits package is custom-designed to achieve that goal through access to the following benefits:

• Highly Competitive Salaries
• Generous Performance Bonuses
• Robust Subsistence Allowances
• Comprehensive Health Plans with Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Strong 401k Savings and Profit Sharing Plan with 100% Matching Contributions
• Significant Paid Time Off
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Training, Education, Certification, and Qualification Assistance
• Benefits may vary based on position and length of employment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day supervision of assigned survey field crew on quality and survey methodology, including training and mentoring of junior level employees.
• Coordinate with internal project managers and outside clients to provide survey services.
• Identify controls for projects and make the appropriate decisions regarding how to proceed with the survey.
• Gather all necessary information needed to properly conduct the survey in the most time efficient manner and assign tasks to crew members.
• Make calculations and maintain records essential to survey.
• Ensure that assigned survey truck is properly maintained.
• Maintain and inventory all assigned equipment.
• Respond appropriately to all employee performance issues of assigned survey field crew.
• Communicate with management to maximize efforts and man-hours.

Typical Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide surveying service which includes construction survey and layout on bridges, highways, foundations, and other related heavy civil projects.
• Assists with survey computations and data collection including construction layout calculations, grade sheet computation, topographical/volume analysis and project datum conversion/transformation.
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
• Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
• Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
• Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
• Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
• Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
• Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
• Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
• Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Associate's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in surveying or survey related field preferred.
• Courses in mathematics and surveying.
• 4-5 years of progressive survey experience and 2 years of Party Chief experience is preferred
• SCDOT, NCDOT, GADOT Location and Surveys experience is preferred.
• A good working knowledge of survey equipment such as Robotic Total Stations, data collectors and software, and GPS equipment
• Ability to perform all aspects of data collection for topographic surveys, boundary surveys, planimetric surveys, and construction staking.
• Thorough knowledge of total station, GPS, and data collection, with the ability to adapt to new equipment and technologies, such as terrestrial laser scanner.
• Ability and knowledge to download field data, keep neat and accurate field notes, and maintain records of work and expenses
• Good organizational skills, the ability to make prudent decisions in the field, resourceful and ambitious in problem solving, and reliability in being consistent and detail-oriented.
• Ability to work outside in varying terrains and climates.
• Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record required.

Please contact us at https://uig.net/contact-us/ or call 704-642-9689.

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