Senior Surveyor: Infrastructure & Civil Works (Dubai)

AECOM Middle East Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM Middle East Ltd. in Dubai seeks a Surveyor specialized in infrastructure and civil works to verify control networks, perform setting-out, levels, coordinates, and as-built data.

You will work with Resident Engineers and contractors to ensure alignment with drawings and project standards on major projects. The role requires practical surveying on roads, utilities, and structures, with strong knowledge of control systems, tolerances, and field records.

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in surveying, civil engineering, geomatics, or a closely related discipline.
• Practical surveying experience on road, utility, infrastructure, or major civil construction projects.
• Strong understanding of horizontal and vertical control systems, benchmarks, traverses, coordinates, elevations, and construction tolerances.

Responsibilities

• Review contract drawings, specifications, survey requirements, and authority standards before carrying out verification activities.
• Establish, inspect, and maintain horizontal and vertical control points, benchmarks, and traverse networks across the project site.
• Coordinate with contractor survey teams to confirm benchmarks, control information, and layout data before construction begins.
• Verify setting-out coordinates, alignments, elevations, and dimensions for roads, structures, wet utilities, dry utilities, chambers, ducts, and related infrastructure.
• Check excavation formation levels and monitor backfilling and compacted layers against approved grades and allowable tolerances.
• Confirm utility routes, chamber locations, duct positions, cover levels, and horizontal alignments before works are covered.
• Undertake joint field measurements with contractor and client representatives for quantity verification, payment assessment, and handover records.
• Review topographic surveys and as-built information to ensure completed works are accurately represented in submitted drawings.
• Check that survey instruments are calibrated, maintained, and used in accordance with project QA and QC procedures.
• Maintain field books, measurement records, survey reports, coordinate data, and inspection documentation for traceability.
• Support the Resident Engineer and Assistant Resident Engineer when assessing survey discrepancies and construction deviations.
• Identify incorrect setting-out information early and report significant differences before affected works proceed.
• Assist in resolving survey interfaces between separate construction packages, utilities, structures, and contractors.
• Verify completed levels and positions before approval of covering, backfilling, or subsequent construction activities.
• Confirm contractor surveying activities follow approved method statements, inspection procedures, and project requirements.
• Observe Health, Safety, and Environmental requirements during field activities and elevate unsafe surveying practices when identified.

Skills

Construction surveying

Infrastructure surveying

Total station operation

GNSS and GPS surveying

Digital and automatic levels

Horizontal and vertical control

Benchmark establishment

Traverse verification

Coordinate checking

Setting-out verification

Road alignment surveying

Utility surveying

Earthworks measurement

Topographic surveying

As-built surveys

Quantity measurement

Survey instrument calibration

Engineering drawing interpretation

Field books and survey records

QA and QC inspection procedures

AutoCAD drawing review

Education

Diploma or degree in surveying, civil engineering, geomatics, or a closely related discipline

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

AECOM Middle East Ltd. in Dubai seeks a Surveyor specialized in infrastructure and civil works to verify control networks, perform setting-out, levels, coordinates, and as-built data.

You will work with Resident Engineers and contractors to ensure alignment with drawings and project standards on major projects. The role requires practical surveying on roads, utilities, and structures, with strong knowledge of control systems, tolerances, and field records.