Land Surveyor - Construction Setting Out

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior Land Surveyor for a major Riyadh public realm project. You will lead site verification, setting-out control, topographic and as-built surveys, and coordinate management across roads, utilities, and landscapes.

The role requires precise measurement, contractor verification, and collaboration with engineers to ensure design intent is met. Ideal candidates have extensive land/engineering surveying experience, lead-site supervision, and proficiency with total stations,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Surveying Engineering from a recognised institution.
• Extensive experience in land surveying or engineering surveying on large-scale infrastructure, public realm, or urban development projects.
• Several years of experience in a senior or lead surveyor capacity.
• Proficient with total stations, GPS/GNSS, digital levels, and related survey equipment.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead surveyor for site surveying and setting-out verification.
• Supervise and coordinate the project survey team across construction areas.
• Review contractor surveying activities for compliance with project requirements.
• Check control points, benchmarks, and reference coordinates established by contractors.
• Verify survey quality, alignments, levels, coordinates, and dimensions.
• Maintain organised survey records for handover to client.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Surveying Engineering

Tools

Total stations

GPS/GNSS

Digital levels

Laser surveying

Job description

Land Surveyor - Construction Setting Out Job Snapshot Role: Land Surveyor - Construction Setting Out Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Civil Engineering Function: Surveying Experience: Senior-level land and engineering surveying experience Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Land Surveyor - Construction Setting Out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Civil Engineering opportunity for an experienced surveying professional capable of leading site verification, setting-out control, topographic surveys, as-built surveys, coordinate management, and construction measurement across a major public realm development. The role supports roads, utilities, structures, hardscape, landscape, parks, open spaces, and extensive streetscape works by ensuring contractor surveys are accurate, traceable, and compliant with approved drawings and project tolerances.

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Surveying
Salary: 12000-18000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Land Surveyor provides independent surveying assurance for construction activities across a large-scale urban and public realm program. Reporting to the Resident Engineer or Construction Director, the position verifies contractor control networks, benchmarks, setting-out information, levels, coordinates, dimensions, and completed works before they progress through inspection and handover. Accurate surveying is critical to maintaining alignment between design intent and site execution. The role also supports quantity verification, multidisciplinary coordination, as-built documentation, and final asset records while helping identify discrepancies before they create costly construction or interface problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the lead surveyor for site surveying, construction setting-out verification, and as-built control activities.
• Supervise and coordinate the project survey team across assigned construction areas.
• Review contractor surveying activities and verify compliance with project requirements.
• Check control points, benchmarks, reference coordinates, and survey monuments established by contractors.
• Confirm that survey control is correctly referenced to the approved project datum and coordinate grid.
• Independently verify horizontal and vertical survey control before construction activities proceed.
• Check contractor setting-out for roads, utilities, structures, hardscape, landscape elements, and public realm works.
• Verify alignments, levels, coordinates, offsets, dimensions, slopes, and other construction geometry.
• Conduct independent spot checks to confirm that completed works remain within approved tolerances.
• Perform verification surveys when discrepancies or construction concerns are identified.
• Compare actual site conditions against approved design information.
• Identify differences between drawings, survey information, and constructed works and report them promptly.
• Support discipline engineers in resolving setting-out and dimensional issues.
• Review contractor survey reports for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Examine layout drawings and setting-out records before acceptance.
• Review topographic surveys used for design verification and construction planning.
• Assess contractor as-built surveys against completed site conditions.
• Verify that submitted coordinates, elevations, dimensions, and reference information are complete.
• Maintain organised survey records for future verification and final handover.
• Retain field notes, calculations, observations, and supporting survey information.
• Ensure digital and hard-copy records remain traceable throughout construction.
• Coordinate surveying requirements with roads engineers.
• Support structural teams with setting-out and dimensional verification.
• Work with wet and dry utility engineers to verify utility alignments and levels.
• Coordinate survey interfaces affecting drainage, chambers, ducts, pipelines, and utility corridors.
• Support hardscape and landscape teams with accurate positioning of public realm elements.
• Help identify spatial conflicts between different disciplines before construction progresses.
• Provide survey information required to support interface management and clash avoidance.
• Participate in coordination meetings and communicate survey constraints or required actions.
• Use total stations for precise construction setting-out and verification.
• Operate GPS and GNSS equipment for coordinate establishment and site surveying.
• Use digital levels for accurate elevation transfer and verification.
• Apply laser instruments and other surveying equipment where appropriate.
• Ensure survey instruments are calibrated in accordance with required schedules.
• Maintain calibration records and immediately report equipment accuracy concerns.
• Protect surveying instruments from damage, misuse, or unauthorised access.
• Ensure equipment is safely stored when not in use.
• Assist with verification of earthwork quantities.
• Perform or review volumetric calculations associated with excavation and filling.
• Support measurement of completed civil and public realm works.
• Provide independent survey information to Quantity Surveying and Commercial teams when required.
• Verify levels and dimensions used to substantiate construction quantities.
• Maintain supporting records for quantity and measurement assessments.
• Help resolve discrepancies between measured site conditions and contractor submissions.
• Follow approved survey procedures and project quality requirements.
• Ensure surveying activities are conducted using safe work practices.
• Coordinate safe access to active construction areas.
• Comply with applicable HSE requirements while working around machinery, excavation, traffic, and construction operations.
• Maintain accuracy even when surveying within congested or multidisciplinary work areas.
• Report conditions that could compromise survey accuracy or personnel safety.
• Assist with preparation and technical review of final as-built drawings.
• Verify final asset coordinates, levels, alignments, and dimensions where required.
• Review contractor final survey records before project acceptance.
• Confirm that handover survey information reflects actual constructed conditions.
• Organise final survey documentation for transfer to the client.
• Support submissions to relevant authorities where survey records are required.
• Ensure final survey information remains complete, clearly referenced, and suitable for future asset management purposes.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Surveying Engineering from a recognised institution.
• Extensive experience in land surveying or engineering surveying on large-scale infrastructure, public realm, or urban development projects.
• Several years of experience working in a senior or lead surveyor capacity.
• Proven experience within site-based construction supervision environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of construction setting-out and independent verification procedures.
• Advanced proficiency with total stations, GPS, GNSS, digital levels, and related survey equipment.
• Experience using survey data processing and technical surveying software.
• Strong understanding of coordinate systems, project datums, benchmarks, and leveling principles.
• Ability to establish and verify precise construction control networks.
• Experience checking contractor setting-out and as-built survey information.
• Ability to interpret civil, structural, architectural, utility, hardscape, and landscape drawings.
• Strong knowledge of surveying tolerances and construction measurement.
• Good understanding of earthwork measurement and volumetric calculations.
• High attention to detail and commitment to survey accuracy.
• Strong record-keeping and technical documentation capability.
• Effective communication skills for coordinating with engineers, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Previous Saudi Arabia or GCC project experience is preferred.

Skills Set

• Land surveying
• Engineering surveying
• Construction surveying
• Construction setting-out
• Survey verification
• Total stations
• GPS surveying
• GNSS surveying
• Digital leveling
• Laser surveying
• Survey control points
• Benchmarks
• Coordinate systems
• Project datum
• Grid systems
• Topographic surveys
• As-built surveys
• Road surveying
• Utility surveying
• Structural setting-out
• Hardscape surveying
• Landscape surveying
• Public realm surveying
• Streetscape surveying
• Survey calculations
• Survey data processing
• Earthwork quantities
• Volumetric calculations
• Construction measurement
• Survey equipment calibration
• Drawing interpretation
• Survey record management
• Field notes
• Quality assurance
• Survey tolerance verification
• Contractor survey review
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Infrastructure construction
• Site supervision
• As-built documentation
• Project handover

Why Join Us

This position offers the opportunity to lead surveying activities on a major public realm development incorporating parks, urban open spaces, infrastructure, and more than 55 kilometers of streetscape. Riyadh 's continued Civil Engineering investment creates strong demand for surveyors who can combine advanced field skills with contractor verification, multidisciplinary coordination, quantity measurement, and construction quality assurance. The role provides a solid progression path toward Lead Surveyor, Chief Surveyor, Survey Manager, and broader construction supervision responsibilities.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, construction management, program management, project controls, and technology services across major international developments. In Saudi Arabia, its teams contribute to large-scale urban and infrastructure programs such as Diriyah, where accurate surveying, disciplined construction supervision, quality control, and coordinated public realm delivery are essential to successful project execution.