Survey Practice Lead, Rocky Mountain

Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers and Architects; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects in Denver seeks an experienced Licensed Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) to lead the Rocky Mountain Survey Practice, delivering boundary, topographic, and infrastructure surveying services across public and private clients.

You will manage operations, develop staff, win new work, and ensure safety and quality while expanding client relationships and guiding technical teams.

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) in CO or UT.
• 10+ years of land surveying experience.
• Experience leading survey teams and managing multiple projects.
• Proven track record of winning and growing work across diversified clients.
• Strong knowledge of boundary law, topographic surveying, and modern surveying tech.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire survey teams across the Rocky Mountain Region.
• Develop, mentor, and coach project managers, professional surveyors, and field staff.
• Foster a culture of safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.
• Balance workloads and allocate resources across offices for efficiency.
• Serve as trusted advisor to public and private clients across sectors.
• Lead project pursuits, proposals, interviews, and contract negotiations.
• Oversee financial performance including backlog, forecasting, utilization, and profitability.
• Provide technical oversight for boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, utility, transmission, transportation, rail, and construction surveying.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationships

Project management

Communication

Mentoring

Business development

Education

Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license (CO/UT)

Tools

Trimble Business Center

Civil 3D

MicroStation/OpenRoads

GIS platforms

LiDAR workflows

Job description

Wilson & Company is seeking an experienced Licensed Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) to lead our Rocky Mountain Survey Practice. This is a leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys maintaining existing and building new client relationships across the full range of public and private clients, mentoring professionals, and growing a high performing, diversified surveying practice while delivering exceptional technical services.

As the Rocky Mountain Survey Practice Lead, you will provide strategic leadership for survey operations across multiple offices, partnering closely with engineering teams to deliver boundary, topographic, utility, transmission, transportation, rail, and infrastructure surveying services for a broad mix of clients. You will be responsible for the overall success of the regional practice, including client satisfaction, staff development, project performance, quality management, and business growth - with a particular focus on winning and sustaining work across multiple client sectors.

This position is ideal for someone who is as driven to win new work as they are to develop people and solve technical challenges.

What You’ll Do

Leadership

• Lead and inspire survey teams across the Rocky Mountain Region.
• Develop, mentor, and coach project managers, professional surveyors, and field staff.
• Foster a culture focused on safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.
• Balance workloads and allocate resources across offices to maximize efficiency.

Client Relationships & Business Development

• Serve as a trusted advisor to public and private clients across every sector the practice serves.
• Proactively pursue and secure new work across a diversified client base - state and municipal transportation agencies, electric utilities and transmission owners, EPC firms, rail carriers, and private developers.
• Develop long-term client relationships that generate repeat business across multiple sectors.
• Lead or support project pursuits, proposals, interviews, and contract negotiations.
• Collaborate with engineering practice leaders to pursue multidisciplinary opportunities.
• Champion growth in strategic markets.

Practice Management

• Oversee financial performance including backlog, forecasting, utilization, profitability, and project performance.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to Wilson & Company’s quality standards.
• Monitor project risks and implement proactive solutions.
• Continuously improve operational processes and project delivery.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical oversight for boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, utility, transmission, transportation, rail, and construction surveying projects.
• Review survey deliverables to ensure technical accuracy and defensibility.
• Guide implementation of emerging technologies including GNSS, LiDAR, UAS, mobile mapping, and 3D data collection.
• Promote innovation and best practices throughout the practice.

Required Qualifications

• Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license in Colorado or Utah.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible land surveying experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading survey teams and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated track record of winning and growing work across a diversified client base - not dependent on any single client or agency relationship.
• Strong understanding of boundary law, topographic surveying, control networks, and modern surveying technologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and client relationship skills.
• Experience managing project financial performance and staffing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensure in multiple Rocky Mountain states.
• Experience supporting transportation, rail, utility, transmission, energy, municipal, and infrastructure projects across a range of client types.
• Proven success developing new business with electric utilities, transmission owners, EPC firms, and private developers, in addition to public agencies.
• Familiarity with multiple agency surveying standards, including CDOT and UDOT is a plus. Experience with Trimble Business Center, Civil 3D, MicroStation/OpenRoads, GIS platforms, and LiDAR workflows.

Why Wilson & Company?

Wilson & Company is a nationally recognized engineering, architecture, geospatial, and surveying firm committed to building lasting relationships with our clients and communities. Our survey professionals work alongside industry-leading engineers on some of the region’s most challenging infrastructure and development projects.

We invest in our people through leadership development, technical training, mentorship, and opportunities for career growth. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of our Rocky Mountain Survey Practice - and expand it into new markets - while working with talented professionals across multiple disciplines.

Location

Preferred locations include:

• Denver, Colorado
• Loveland, Colorado
• Salt Lake City, Utah

Hybrid work arrangements may be considered for highly qualified candidates.

Join Our Team

If you’re a licensed surveyor who enjoys leading people, building client relationships across every sector you serve, and growing a diversified, successful practice, we’d love to hear from you.

Wilson & Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please note that Wilson & Company is not currently sponsoring applicants for work visas.

Annual Salary: $145,000 - $160,000

About Us

For nearly a century, Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects, has provided award-winning engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, surveying, geospatial, and construction management services. With employees across multiple offices in the Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Western regions in the United States, we bring people together to practice their craft, create value, and accomplish great things.

Guided by our purpose, we help clients move from concept to completion, transforming unused spaces into productive places, underutilized facilities into efficient ones, and rural or urban challenges into achievable solutions.

At Wilson & Company, we focus on your specific needs, delivering excellence with lasting Higher Relationships in mind. By employing our core values—discipline, intensity, collaboration, shared ownership, and solutions—we create genuine experiences and lasting connections for our clients, employees, and communities.

We support our employees’ success and well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, including options for health insurance, life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, and retirement savings plans. We are proud to be an EEO employer and maintain a drug‑free workplace, conducting pre‑employment background checks.

Join us and be part of a culture committed to helping you achieve personal and professional success.