Surveyor

BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION AUSTRALIA (BCA); Muswellbrook Shire Council; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bouygues Construction Australia (BCA) in Muswellbrook NSW invites a Surveyor to provide precise measurements and boundary determinations for engineering, mining, and construction projects. The role requires a surveying qualification and 3-5 years’ experience to support engineers and contractors on site.

You will prepare maps, legal descriptions, verify data accuracy, and maintain survey records while ensuring safety and quality. Contact Huyen Trang BUI for questions.

Qualifications

• Degree or post-secondary school training or TAFE certificate in Surveying.
• 3-5 Years’ experience in all aspects of Construction/ Engineering Surveying.
• Coordination and negotiation skills.
• Technical knowledge and profit minded.
• Methodical, have authority, be available, attentive, able to be objective, be tenacious and have a sense of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
• Direct or conduct surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
• 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.
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles in order to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
• Adjust surveying instruments in order to maintain their accuracy.
• Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based GPS.
• Analyse survey objectives and specifications in order to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
• Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data in order to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
• Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
• Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
• Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
• Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities.
• Survey bodies of water in order to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
• Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.

Skills

Coordination

Negotiation

Attention to detail

Authority

Responsibility

Education

Surveying degree / TAFE

Tools

Theodolites

GPS

Job description

BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION AUSTRALIA (BCA) – Muswellbrook NSW

At Bouygues Construction Australia, we are dedicated to the design, construction, and delivery of nation shaping projects across civil infrastructure, engineering, and energy and services.
We have proudly been working in Australia for more than 25 years.
Our local experience in underpinned by significant global expertise and resourcing.

POSITION OBJECTIVE

The Surveyor will provide a professional and effective support service for making exact measurements and determine property boundaries and providing data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Degree or post-secondary school training or TAFE certificate in Surveying
• 3-5 Years’ experience in all aspects of Construction/ Engineering Surveying
• Coordination and negotiation skills
• Technical knowledge and profit minded.
• Methodical, have authority, be available, attentive, able to be objective, be tenacious and have a sense of responsibility.

KEY RESULT AREAS/RESPONSIBILTIES

• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites
• Direct or conduct surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain
• 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
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles in order to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects
• Adjust surveying instruments in order to maintain their accuracy
• Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS)
• Analyse survey objectives and specifications in order to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation
• Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data in order to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features
• Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures
• Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments
• Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing
• Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities
• Survey bodies of water in order to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures
• Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain

If you have any questions feel free to contact Huyen Trang BUI