Surveyor, Highways & Roads

WSP in Canada; Red Deer; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Surveyor to join their dynamic team in Central Alberta. This role offers a unique blend of field and office work, focusing on highways design and construction services. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality survey services, utilizing advanced technologies such as GNSS and drone mapping. The company promotes a culture of inclusion and flexibility, ensuring a healthy work-life balance while providing outstanding career opportunities. If you are passionate about making a difference in the transportation sector and enjoy collaborative work environments, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Options

Comprehensive Benefits

Virtual Healthcare

Wellness Platform

Savings Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience, preferably in highways and transportation.
• Field experience with GNSS, Robotic Total Stations, and Drones.

Responsibilities

• Provide survey and technical support to construction and design teams.
• Communicate with clients and estimate prospective work.
• Perform quality control on work done by coworkers.

Skills

Communication Skills

Quality Management Practices

Field Experience with GNSS

Robotic Total Stations

Drone Mapping

Data Processing

Education

Technical Diploma in Survey, Geomatics or Civil

Tools

Civil 3D

Trimble Business Center

RTK GNSS

Robotic Instruments

Terrestrial Scanning

Job description

The Opportunity:

WSP Transportation division is currently seeking a Surveyor to support our Central Alberta Operations as part of our province-wide team. Work is mainly centered on Highways Design and Construction services. Reporting to the Provincial Survey Manager, this position is responsible for providing quality management, technical support, and survey services to numerous projects. This position is suitable to candidates who enjoy a balance of field and office work and offers flexibility in workplace, schedule and holidays. This position is suitable to a person looking to be part of a larger team with a great reputation and looking for a career vs a job.

Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging
• Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

What you can expect to do here:

• Communicating with clients
• Estimating prospective work
• Applying good quality management practices
• Providing survey and technical support to our Construction Supervision teams including deciphering plans, producing grade files, grade stakeout, grade checking, quality assurance, field fit designs and measuring / generating construction quantities
• Providing survey and technical support to our Design teams collecting data, providing survey base for design including mapping utilities, legal composites, preliminary designs, quantities, drafting and plotting
• Drone Mapping with Lidar and Photogrammetry and processing
• Terrestrial Scanning and Processing
• Topographic / Detail Surveys utilizing RTK GNSS and Robotic Instruments
• Setting control utilizing static GPS GPS/GNSS and other methods
• Processing field to finish using Civil 3D, TBC, and other software
• Performing Quality Control / Quality Assurance reviews on work done by coworkers including staff and independent contractors.

What you’ll bring to WSP:

• Technical Diploma in Survey, Geomatics or Civil
• 5 + Years Industry Experience with preference to Highways and Transportation experience
• Willingness to travel for up to two weeks at a time
• Field experience with GNSS, Robotic Total Stations, Scanners, Drones and Data Collectors with an emphasis on construction
• Experience data processing using Trimble Business Center
• Experience data processing and drafting using Civil 3D.

About Us:

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

• We value our people and our reputation
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.