Party Chief (Senior Surveyor)

Internetwork Expert; Georgia; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Internetwork Expert is seeking a Party Chief to lead our Survey team in field operations. You will oversee field surveys, construction staking, and prepare daily logs for civil development projects in coordination with clients and jurisdictions.

Responsibilities include directing the survey crew, training on equipment and safety, interpreting plans, computing distances and elevations, and ensuring compliance with project specs. Valid Texas driver’s license and 10 years’ experience are required.

Qualifications

• 10 years of survey experience or equivalent combination of training, education and experience.
• Current, valid Texas state driver’s license preferred.
• TWIC Homeland Security card preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead field survey crew and coordinate field survey work and staking.
• Train crew on surveying technology and safety procedures.
• Read and interpret engineering plans; compute distances, traverses and elevations.
• Research records and maintain field data records and project files.
• Conduct field visits to construction sites in varying terrains and weather.
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients, jurisdictions and community.
• Gather field data using GPS, total station and data collectors.
• Establish vertical/horizontal control, right of way, monuments and property lines.

Skills

Team leadership

Field surveying

Data analysis

Safety procedures

Tools

Total station

GPS equipment

Data collector

Job description

We are seeking a Party Chief to join our Survey team. The Survey Party Chief will lead the company’s field survey team in the field. The Party Chief will coordinate the required field survey work and construction staking along with other surveys and will prepare daily survey logs as part of public and private commercial and industrial development projects based on the client’s intent/vision, budget, timeline, jurisdictional requirements, and community needs and concerns.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to assign, prioritize, schedule, delegate and monitors and provides input for evaluation of the performance for all field survey crew
• Trains crew members on the latest technology in surveying equipment and finds new and innovative ways of doing surveys and field safety procedures
• Work independently; read and interpret engineering plans; collect, calculate, and adjust mathematical computations such as distances, traverses, and elevations; analyze data; operate and maintain complex precision surveying instruments
• Research existing record information, including record maps, plans, deeds, easements, and maintains field data records, survey project files, and indexing systems
• Analyze a variety of information or issues and effectively use independent judgment in interpretation of information, decision making, problem resolution, and compliance requirements
• Conduct field visits and inspections at construction sites and a wide variety of outdoor locations by safely navigating all types of terrain, potentially hazardous sites, and in all weather conditions
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other clients, team members, jurisdictions, planning staff, other City employees, and the community
• Gathers field survey data through use of conventional and Global Positioning System (GPS) methods; sets up, adjusts, and operates surveying equipment, including electronic total station, data collector, and GPS equipment, in order to measure distances, elevations, and angles; prepares field notes and drawings; performs field surveying for roadway, bridges, and flood control projects, including installing surveying construction stakes, tying out existing intersection ties, and locating or establishing vertical and horizontal control, right of way, monuments, corners, boundaries, and property lines.

• 10 years of survey experience required, or equivalent combination of training, education and experience will be considered
• Current, valid Texas State driver’s license at time of appointment and maintained always thereafter to operate a vehicle on company business
• TWIC Homeland Security card preferred