Control and Topographic Survey Manager

BAM; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is seeking a Control and Topographic Survey Manager to support engineering and topographic survey activities for HS2. This role involves managing survey teams, ensuring compliance, and liaising with various stakeholders. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and proven experience in senior surveying roles. A competitive salary and a range of family-friendly policies are offered, including a company car, private healthcare, and generous holiday provisions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company car/car allowance/travel allowance

8% matched pension contributions

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

2 wellbeing days

1 volunteering day

Personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Surveyor or Survey Manager on major projects.
• Demonstrated awareness and ability to develop strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of HS2 standards and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact for survey management across HS2 lots.
• Lead planning, execution, and coordination of survey activities.
• Oversee and manage installation of control network monumentation.

Skills

Strong communication

Coordination skills

Stakeholder engagement

Knowledge of topographic survey techniques

Experience with modern survey equipment

Education

Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering

Membership of CICES, RICS, or similar institution

Tools

Survey software applications

Reality capture technologies (drones, laser scanning)

Job description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

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At BAM Infrastructure, we are seeking a skilled and motivated Control and Topographic Survey Manager to support the delivery of engineering and topographic survey activities across the three HS2 Rail Systems Lots. This pivotal role focuses on establishing and maintaining precise survey control networks and topographic engineering surveys critical to the successful construction, operation, and maintenance of HS2.

You will act as the key point of contact for topographic and engineering surveying, leading the planning, execution, and coordination of survey control and topographic activities. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineering surveying professional to step into a strategic delivery role and contribute to one of the UK's most transformative infrastructure programmes.

Your work environment

• Location: London Euston (with travel required along the HS2 route)

Your mission

• Act as the Contractor's Control and Topographic Survey Manager, serving as the primary point of contact across all three Lots with Project Managers, Planners, the Employer, Designers, and external stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain the Topographic and Engineering Survey Management Plan, operational procedures, and all associated technical deliverables.
• Lead, build, and manage a team of engineering surveyors.
• Manage survey-related subcontractors, ensuring performance, safety, and compliance.
• Monitor survey activities to ensure unsafe conditions or non-compliance are promptly addressed.
• Liaise with commercial staff to ensure timely preparation of records for measurement and payment, and accurate recording of any non-conformances.
• Plan and programme surveying activities and resources to ensure alignment with the overall project programme, key milestones, critical path, and deadlines.
• Lead the design and development of the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Survey Control Networks, liaising closely with permanent works designers.
• Oversee and manage the installation of control network monumentation, working with planners and construction teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Lead the survey, processing, and formulation of the hierarchical control networks, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee verification and delivery of the Topographic Engineering Survey Baseline (TESB).
• Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of survey data processing, verification and extraction, ensuring output deliverables meet all information requirements for design development, coordination, and other key stakeholders.
• Support geospatial information management, including survey control, topographic, setting‑out, GIS, BIM, reality capture, verification, as‑built, and handover.
• Manage and monitor all survey outputs for planning, commercial, accuracy, quality, and compliance with HS2 standards and project specifications.
• Attend coordination, interface, and integration meetings, providing clear technical input and resolving survey-related issues.
• Provide guidance, support and training to site engineers and surveyors on engineering surveying practices, including instrument checks and calibration.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of modern survey technologies such as automation, digital workflows, and advanced reality capture.

Who are we looking for?

• Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Member of CICES, RICS, or a similar recognised professional institution.
• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Surveyor or Survey Manager on major civil engineering or rail infrastructure projects.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working on rail projects.
• Demonstrated awareness and the ability to develop strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
• Proven experience in delivering complex survey control networks.
• Strong knowledge of topographic survey techniques, including capture, processing, and delivery.
• Desirable experience with reality capture technologies such as drones, laser scanning, and mobile mapping.
• Good understanding of HS2 standards and requirements, and relevant construction and geospatial specifications.
• Technical proficiency with modern survey equipment and geospatial software applications.
• Proven ability to deliver technical documentation such as survey plans, reports, programmes, risk assessments and activity information.
• A strong commitment to Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

BAM Infrastructure is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work‑life balance.

Who are we?

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That's our mission and our promise at BAM. It's how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high‑quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We're on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

Our recruitment process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Jonathan Schulte, Recruitment Manager, BAM Infrastructure, m: 07717 227890 / Email: [e-mail]

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.