Land Surveyor

AECO; Al Ain; On-site; AED 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is recruiting a Land Surveyor to carry out and verify surveying activities for a major infrastructure project in Al Ain, UAE. The role covers setting-out, verification against drawings, and collaboration with engineers, inspectors and contractors to ensure accuracy and compliance.

The candidate will maintain survey records, calibrate instruments, and support project handover activities in a demanding, on-site environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale infrastructure surveying.
• Ability to verify approved drawings and setting-out information.
• Proven track record coordinating with engineers, inspectors, and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Establish, verify, and maintain project survey control points, benchmarks, coordinates, and reference levels.
• Review approved drawings and verify setting-out information prior to construction.
• Perform and check setting-out for roads, utilities, pipelines, manholes, and structures.
• Coordinate with RE/ARE, discipline engineers, inspectors, contractors, and other survey teams.
• Maintain accurate survey records and inspection documentation.
• Ensure surveying instruments are calibrated and compliant with QA/QC requirements.

Skills

Surveying

Setting-out

Coordination

QA/QC

Job description

• Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED - AL AIN
• Business Line: Water
• Work Location Model: On-Site
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: AE - Al Ain, UAE - Al Ain Square - S

Company Description

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Job Description

Job Description Summary

The Land Surveyor is responsible for carrying out and verifying all surveying activities associated with a large-scale infrastructure development, ensuring that construction works are executed in accordance with approved drawings, coordinates, alignments, levels, and project specifications. The role supports roads, utilities, structures, landscaping, and associated infrastructure works throughout construction and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, verify, and maintain project survey control points, benchmarks, coordinates, and reference levels.
• Review approved IFC/shop drawings and verify setting-out information prior to construction.
• Perform and check setting-out for roads, utilities, pipelines, manholes, chambers, structures, kerbs, street lighting, landscaping, and other infrastructure works.
• Verify horizontal and vertical alignments, levels, gradients, slopes, offsets, and coordinates.
• Check excavation levels, formation levels, pipe invert levels, road layers, finished road levels, and utility installations.
• Conduct independent survey checks of the Contractor’s setting-out and completed works.
• Coordinate closely with the RE/ARE, discipline engineers, inspectors, contractors, and other survey teams.
• Identify and report discrepancies between approved drawings, existing site conditions, and Contractor setting-out information.
• Maintain accurate survey records, field books, coordinate schedules, level records, and inspection documentation.
• Verify quantities and measurements where survey information is required to support progress assessment and commercial records.
• Conduct surveys for existing utilities, tie-in locations, interfaces, and construction constraints.
• Review and verify as-built surveys and drawings against actual completed works.
• Support authority inspections, snagging, final surveys, and project handover activities.
• Ensure surveying instruments are properly calibrated, maintained, and supported by valid calibration certificates.
• Ensure all surveying activities comply with project QA/QC, HSE, and applicable authority requirements.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

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