Lead Survey Party Chief (Field & Safety Focus)

Cardinal Civil Resources; Rock Hill (SC); Sur place; USD 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cardinal Civil Resources (CCR) seeks a Survey Party Chief to lead a crew of 1–3 on construction survey projects. You will interpret plans, manage field data, and maintain safety protocols while traveling to varying job sites. The role demands strong attention to detail and reliable field performance.

The ideal candidate has extensive surveying experience, CST or Apprenticeship would be a plus, and the ability to mentor junior staff. Join CCR for steady growth and hands-on field work.

Qualifications

• High school education or equivalent with math, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Minimum of five years of survey experience with at least three years as party chief.

Responsabilités

• Monitor projects from initiation through delivery, interfacing with clients and staff on technical matters
• Work within defined project scopes and budgets
• Collaborate with project team members, to include other licensed surveyors, engineers, and technical and survey staff
• Review the results of field surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land features and structures
• Verify the accuracy of field survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites
• Ensure Safety and Health are the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes. Acting safely at all times
• Participate in or conduct and document safety meetings with the crew daily. Host or assist with morning safety meetings. Bring safety and proper working procedure topics up as reminders and ensure all workers are comfortable with the tasks assigned to them by reviewing their day plan
• Mentor less experienced employees and train them in proper company standards as well as ensure more experienced employees are helping to mentor green workers in proper company standards
• Maintains digital files on assigned computer equipment to assure use of correct and current data files
• Provide technical direction and training for the use of hardware and equipment if necessary. Troubleshoot hardware and equipment
• Ability to read and interpret engineering plans and construction documents
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Operate electronic total station instrument run and adjust survey measuring instruments, including level, transit, theodolite, electronic measuring devices, and total stations with electronic data collecting capabilities
• Take field notes of readings and observations
• Operate and maintain vehicle and field equipment
• Perform other related field and office duties as assigned
• Work primarily in the field on control, and topographic surveys
• Perform some office duties, including data reduction, field note reduction, and data checks
• Cut and remove brush and undergrowth for a line of sight
• Performs mathematical calculations and field checking of field data
• Reads and understands plans and specifications
• Know basic sources of measurement errors
• Dig ground using a pick, shovel, and other hand tools to search for and locate survey monuments
• Hold and plum rod in obtaining elevations and distances
• Drive stakes to set grades on construction projects
• Provide solutions to civil site design challenges
• Use public records in the execution of survey fieldwork
• Topographical surveys
• Boundary surveys
• Well connect pipelines surveys
• Pipeline route staking
• Establish and recover survey control and monumentation, perform construction layout, obtain sewer invert and subsurface utility information and photo documentation of the project area

Connaissances

Attention to detail

Integrity

Leadership

Communication skills

Formation

High school education or equivalent with math, geometry, and trigonometry

Outils

Total stations

GPS Receivers

Data collectors

Description du poste

Cardinal Civil Resources (CCR) seeks a Survey Party Chief to lead a crew of 1–3 on construction survey projects. You will interpret plans, manage field data, and maintain safety protocols while traveling to varying job sites. The role demands strong attention to detail and reliable field performance.

The ideal candidate has extensive surveying experience, CST or Apprenticeship would be a plus, and the ability to mentor junior staff. Join CCR for steady growth and hands-on field work.