Survey Lead (Topographical surveying)

Sizewell C Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm in the UK seeks a Lead Surveyor to manage its newly established survey team. You will oversee all topographical surveying tasks across multiple contracts, ensuring high-quality services and compliance with safety standards. The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills, a relevant degree, and chartered status. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, contributing to the UK's significant infrastructure projects.

Benefits

10% CIP bonus

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Contributory pension up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer

Life Assurance eight times annual salary

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• 5+ years in managing large-scale survey teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Experience with UAV/drone survey integration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the centralized Sizewell C Survey Team.
• Oversee land and aerial survey operations.
• Ensure compliance with safety and legal standards.

Skills

Leadership in survey operations

Strong communication skills

Analytical problem-solving

Proficiency in survey software

Education

Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, or related field

Chartered status (RICS or CICES)

Tools

Survey data management tools

Geospatial data systems (e.g., GIS)

Job description

Job Description

Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

Location: Sizewell C, Leiston, Suffolk (minimum 3 days a week onsite with occasional weekends).

Contract: Permanent, full-time. Salary: Competitive depending on experience plus benefits.

Closing date: Sunday 25 January 2026.

Benefits

• 10% CIP bonus
• 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension: up to 7.5% employee / up to 15% employer
• Life Assurance: eight times the annual salary
• Ongoing professional development
• Other lifestyle benefits

Lead Surveyor – Shape the Future of UK Infrastructure

Are you a seasoned Survey Lead ready to drive a unified, high‑performing approach to topographical surveying? Sizewell C is seeking a dynamic professional to lead our newly established centralized survey team.

About the Role

As Survey Lead, you’ll manage and implement the centralized Sizewell C Survey Team, ensuring consistent, high‑quality survey services across all phases of this nationally significant infrastructure project. You’ll head up ‘Team Survey’ – a core group overseeing topographical surveying across multiple contracts and workforces.

You’ll lead Senior Area Surveyors across three key workstreams:

• Survey Control Team
• Core Surveying Team
• Specialist Survey Teams (including tunnelling, backfill, laser scanning, completion surveys, off‑site surveys, and BIM)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the SZC Survey Strategy and Task Information Delivery Plans (TIDPs)
• Oversee all land and aerial survey operations, including control networks and monitoring
• Ensure compliance with safety, legal, and regulatory standards (ONR, LC12, LC19)
• Manage survey data quality, equipment calibration, and as‑built records
• Coordinate with contractors, stakeholders, and regulators
• Lead recruitment, training, and performance management
• Approve survey methods, calculations, and reports
• Conduct audits and manage non‑conformances
• Promote a strong safety and quality culture

Tools & Technologies Used

• Survey data management and processing tools
• Geospatial data systems (e.g., GIS)
• Project CDE platforms
• Survey Control Networks (PSN, SSN, LSN, RSN)

What We’re Looking For

Essential

• Proven leadership in managing teams in a large‑scale infrastructure survey operations
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Analytical mindset with problem‑solving capabilities
• Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, or related field
• Chartered status (RICS or CICES)
• Proficiency in survey software and digital tools

Desirable

• Experience with UAV/drone survey integration
• Familiarity with nuclear or regulated infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of digital construction and geospatial data systems

Diversity & Legal

We encourage and embrace diversity. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.

By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.

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