Survey Manager

Laing O'Rourke group; Leiston; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is delivering a major infrastructure programme in the UK. We are seeking an experienced Survey Manager to lead surveying across Sizewell C civil works, ensuring accurate spatial data collection, management and reporting to underpin delivery.

You will manage a team of surveyors and subcontractors, develop survey strategies, and ensure QA/QC across activities, while collaborating with engineering and design teams in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as Survey Manager or Senior Surveyor on major civil projects.
• Strong knowledge of surveying principles, control networks and geospatial data management.
• Experience with GPS, GNSS, Total Stations, UAV/Drone surveying technologies and digital survey platforms.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, GIS and survey data processing software.
• Strong leadership and project-management skills with experience leading survey teams.
• Good communication and stakeholder management across multidisciplinary teams.
• Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering or related field; membership of RICS advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead surveying activities across allocated project work packages.
• Manage and develop a team of surveyors and subcontractors.
• Develop survey strategies, methodologies and delivery programmes.
• Maintain project control networks, benchmarks and survey data.
• Review and validate survey information and reports for accuracy.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction and design teams to support complex works.
• Oversee survey equipment, calibration programmes and digital technologies.
• Implement QA/QC processes across surveying activities.
• Identify and mitigate surveying risks while ensuring health & safety compliance.
• Capture lessons learned and promote best practices across the project.

Skills

Survey management

Leadership

Geospatial data

GPS/GNSS/Total Stations

AutoCAD/Civil 3D

GIS

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Surveying/Civil Engineering

Tools

Total Stations

Laser Scanning

UAV/Drone surveying

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

GIS platforms

Job description

Location: Ipswich/Suffolk

Hybrid working available | Travel & mobility support options available

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes – Sizewell C – a once-in-a-generation clean energy project that will help power over 6 million homes for decades to come.

Working within the Civil Works Alliance (a partnership between Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O'Rourke), you'll lead surveying activities across major civil engineering works, ensuring the accurate collection, management and reporting of spatial data that underpins the successful delivery of one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and managing all surveying activities across allocated project work packages
• Managing and developing a team of surveyors, survey technicians and specialist subcontractors
• Developing survey strategies, methodologies and delivery programmes to support construction activities
• Ensuring the accurate establishment and maintenance of project control networks, benchmarks and survey data
• Reviewing and validating survey information, calculations and technical reports to ensure accuracy and quality
• Working closely with engineering, construction and design teams to support the delivery of complex civil engineering works
• Managing survey equipment, calibration programmes and digital survey technologies
• Implementing quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) processes across surveying activities
• Identifying and mitigating surveying risks while ensuring compliance with project, regulatory and health & safety requirements
• Promoting continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and implementing best practice across the project

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in a Survey Manager or Senior Surveying role within major civil engineering, infrastructure or construction projects
• Strong technical knowledge of surveying principles, control networks and geospatial data management
• Experience using GPS, GNSS, Total Stations, Laser Scanning, UAV/Drone surveying technologies and digital survey platforms
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, GIS and survey data processing software
• Strong leadership, organisational and project management skills with experience managing survey teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to project delivery
• Degree qualified in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering or a related discipline
• Membership of, or progress towards, RICS or a relevant professional body would be advantageous

Why Join Us?

• Be part of one of the UK's largest and most complex infrastructure projects
• Lead surveying activities that support nationally significant civil engineering works
• Work within a collaborative alliance environment alongside industry-leading organisations
• Manage and develop a growing surveying team using the latest digital surveying technologies
• Long-term career opportunities within a major programme of works
• Competitive salary, benefits and hybrid working arrangements

About Us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the‑art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

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