Survey Manager

BAM UK & Ireland; Slough; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company car / travel allowance

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Pension matching

Professional development

Job summary

Ferrovial BAM Joint Venture seeks a Survey Manager to lead surveying strategy and delivery on HS2 Lot 1. You will oversee survey operations from initiation to handover, ensuring technical excellence and digital innovation with strong stakeholder collaboration.

Essential experience includes senior-level surveying on major civil programmes, rail/track expertise, and leadership within a Tier 1 contractor or JV. Based at the London project office with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior-level experience in engineering surveying on major civil infrastructure programmes including Survey Control Network.
• Experience delivering high-speed rail or slab track works.
• Leadership within a Tier 1 contractor or major JV.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the Survey Management Plan for the HS2 Track Systems contract.
• Lead design, planning and field operations including setting out for civils and P-Way.
• Provide technical assurance, quality control and HS2 standard compliance.
• Engage stakeholders and act as the primary technical interface with HS2 Ltd and partners.
• Drive digital surveying innovations and integrated data workflows across the lifecycle.
• Mentor surveying, site engineering and digital workflow teams.

Skills

Senior-level surveying experience

Rail infrastructure delivery

Leadership in Tier1/JV environments

Education

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

Job description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

The Ferrovial BAM Joint Venture has a successful history of delivering critical infrastructure projects for the UK on time and to budget together in a joint venture partnership. The JV is now delivering the track infrastructure across the entire HS2 route.

We are seeking a highly experienced and forward-thinking Survey Manager to lead the surveying strategy and delivery across Lot 1. This is a key role for the project, with responsibility for technical leadership, assurance, innovation, and stakeholder collaboration on one of the UKs biggest infrastructure programmes.

You will oversee and direct survey operations from project initiation through to final handover, ensuring technical excellence, compliance, and digital innovation throughout. This is a unique opportunity to help shape national surveying practices, drive the adoption of advanced digital construction methods, and mentor the next generation of survey professionals in a high-profile, industry-defining environment.

Your team

• This role will be based at our project office in Euston, London

Making Possible

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and implement the Survey Management Plan for the HS2 Track Systems contract.


• Lead all survey-related design, planning and operational activities, including:
  
  
  
  • Development, Implementation and Management of Survey Control Network
  
  
  • Management of information and as-built verification (TESB Topographical Engineering Survey Baseline)
  
  
  • Setting out for civils and permanent way (P-Way)
  
  
  • Reality Capture
  
  
  • Monitoring
  
  
  • GIS integration
  
  
  • Final survey handover deliverables
  
  
  
  


• Align survey activities with wider project strategies in engineering, commercial, and digital delivery.

Technical Oversight & Assurance

• Lead technical assurance and quality control across all survey operations.


• Ensure full compliance with HS2 technical standards, client specifications, and industry best practices.


• Plan and coordinate survey works across all Lots, managing key interfaces to ensure programme delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary technical interface for Ferrovial BAM Rail Systems (FBRS) with HS2 Ltd, design teams, JV partners, local authorities, and other stakeholders.


• Provide expert technical advice, insight on risk, and accurate reporting to internal leadership and external partners.

Innovation & Development

• Drive innovation in digital construction, automation, survey technologies, and track system methodologies.


• Champion lean surveying principles and integrated data workflows across the full project lifecycle.

Operational Leadership

• Guide and support surveying teams with control, monitoring, setting out, and verification activities.


• Ensure the timely, cost-effective delivery of high-quality survey outputs to support both design and construction.

Professional Development & Industry Engagement

• Mentor teams in surveying, site engineering, and digital workflows across the programme.


• Promote professional accreditation (e.g. CICES, RICS) and lead training, development, and sponsorship initiatives.


• Represent the organisation at industry events, conferences, and technical forums to promote knowledge-sharing and best practice.

What do you bring to the role?

Essential Experience

• Extensive senior-level experience in engineering surveying on major civil infrastructure programmes including development of Survey Control Network


• Experience in delivering high-speed rail or slab track works.


• Leadership experience within a Tier 1 contractor or major JV

Qualifications

• Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related field.

Key Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.


• Clear and confident communicator able to represent surveying interests at all levels.


• Advanced knowledge of engineering surveying practices, digital workflows, and relevant technical standards.

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of HS2 technical requirements, Network Rail standards, and UK rail infrastructure regulations.


• Awareness of the commercial, legal, and technological factors influencing major infrastructure delivery.

Whats 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

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