Survey Coordinator

ERM; New Delhi; On-site; INR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

ERM is the world’s largest sustainability advisory with a global delivery network. This role sits in the Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) India and focuses on coordinating UK survey programmes, ensuring access, scheduling, and compliance across multiple campaigns.

You will collaborate with Land Access Managers, technical leads, and clients to deliver surveys on time and safely, maintain trackers and resourcing plans, and uphold ERM’s safety and quality standards across fieldwork.

Qualifications

• Coordinating multi-discipline surveys, fieldwork, or site logistics on UK infrastructure projects.
• Strong programme and logistics management skills to juggle multiple campaigns.
• Working knowledge of UK H&S and compliance frameworks for fieldwork.
• Confident communicator with landowners, surveyors, subcontractors and clients.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills with trackers, dashboards, and resourcing plans.
• Familiarity with GIS platforms and interpreting land plans and access routes.
• Commercial awareness of utilisation and cost control on survey workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, and mobilisation of UK survey campaigns across disciplines.
• Work with Land Access Managers to align with permissions, access windows and site conditions.
• Maintain the master survey tracker, resource plan, and access matrix for visibility across projects.
• Ensure surveyors and subcontractors have required competencies and inductions.
• Provide clear progress updates to project managers, leads and clients; escalate risks early.
• Support post-survey close-out, including reinstatement checks and landowner communications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of trackers, templates, and process docs.
• Uphold ERM's health, safety, quality and ethics standards on all fieldwork.

Skills

Survey coordination

Logistics management

Stakeholder communication

MS 365

GIS familiarity

Education

Ecology/Environmental science degree

Tools

Workday

Resource trackers

GIS platforms

Job description

ERM is the world's largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet. Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM's global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes. As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

Why this role matters?

As a Survey Coordinator, you will be the operational engine behind ERM's UK survey programmes - coordinating access, scheduling, logistics, and compliance across a portfolio of capital projects. Working within the Capital Project Delivery (CPD) - Projects Feasibility, Planning & Consents pillar, you will partner with Land Access Managers, Land Access Coordinators, technical survey leads, project managers to ensure surveys are delivered on time, safely, and in line with landowner permissions. This role is critical to de-risking survey programmes, maintaining CDM and H&S compliance, and enabling CPD's UK Land Services and technical teams to grow through reliable, well-run field campaigns.

What your impact is?

Survey programmes are delivered on schedule and within budget, with access, resource, and equipment aligned to landowner permissions and site constraints. Access windows are actively managed and re-planned in response to weather, ecology seasons, landowner availability, and construction interfaces - protecting critical path. Clients and Internal stakeholders receive clear, timely progress updates on survey status, blockers, and completion, supported by accurate trackers and reporting. Cross-team coordination, with issues escalated early and resolved collaboratively. Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), permits, and post-survey reinstatement records are complete, auditable, and stored in line with ERM's quality and assurance standards.

What will you bring?

• Demonstrable experience (typically 3+ years) coordinating multi-discipline surveys, fieldwork, or site logistics on UK infrastructure, energy, utilities, environmental, or development projects.
• Strong programme and logistics management skills - able to juggle multiple concurrent survey campaigns, teams, and access windows.
• Working knowledge of UK H&S and compliance frameworks relevant to fieldwork.
• Confident communicator with landowners, surveyors, subcontractors, and clients - both written and verbal.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills (Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint) with the ability to build and maintain trackers, dashboards, and resourcing plans.
• Familiarity with GIS platforms and the ability to interpret land plans, constraint mapping, and access routes.
• Commercial awareness of utilisation, chargeability, and cost control on survey workstreams.

Preferred qualifications, skills & competencies

• Background or qualification in ecology, environmental science, geography, land management, or a related discipline.
• Prior experience coordinating surveys.
• Familiarity with resource management and forecasting tools used in consultancy (e.g., Workday, resource trackers).
• Experience supporting DCO, TWAO, planning, or ESIA-driven survey programmes.
• Exposure to global delivery or shared service environments, working alongside offshore/CDH delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, and mobilisation of UK survey campaigns across disciplines.
• Work closely with Land Access Managers and Coordinators to align survey programmes with landowner permissions, access windows, and any site-specific conditions or restrictions.
• Maintain the master survey tracker, resource plan, and access matrix - ensuring visibility of status, blockers, and forecast completion across projects.
• Ensure all surveyors and subcontractors have the required competencies, certifications, and inductions before deployment.
• Provide clear, timely progress updates to project managers, technical leads, and clients on survey delivery, and escalates risks or delays early.
• Support the Land Access Manager with post-survey close-out, including reinstatement checks, damage claims, and landowner thank-you communications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement - refining trackers, templates, competency matrices, and process documentation for CPD's UK Land Services and technical teams.
• Uphold ERM's health, safety, quality, and ethics standards on all fieldwork, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of every team member deployed to site.

At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world's largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world's leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation. With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a "boots to boardroom" leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.