Survey Manager RPLS

Huitt-Zollars; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (BCBS TX)

Dental insurance (BCBS TX)

Vision insurance (BCBS TX)

MDLive Telehealth

Disability insurance

8 paid holidays

Paid vacation/annual leave

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

ESOP

Job summary

Huitt-Zollars in El Paso, TX is seeking a Survey Manager/RPLS to lead the local survey department, manage staff, projects, and budgets, and collaborate with other offices. The role requires Texas RPLS and a strong background in surveying leadership and business development.

Responsibilities include client liaison, project scope and budget preparation, and ensuring quality, schedules, and profitability. This full-time position emphasizes growth of the surveying team and client relationships.

Qualifications

• Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor license required.
• Minimum 10 years of professional land surveying experience.
• At least 5 years managing survey projects and staff.
• Office production experience in boundary, topographic and construction surveying.
• Business development experience.
• Knowledge of MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or Trimble Access is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage several survey projects simultaneously with scheduling and budgets.
• Prepare scope of services and detailed project budgets for multiple projects.
• Ensure technical quality, scheduling, and profitability of projects.
• Act as primary client contact and build relationships with clients.
• Negotiate scope and fees and oversee billing/collections.
• Conduct marketing of surveying and engineering services to obtain projects.
• Prepare proposals, plats, right of way maps and ALTA sheets.
• Ensure QA/QC review is complete.
• Manage survey staff and mentor them to develop professionally.

Skills

Survey leadership

Client relationships

Project budgeting

Staff mentoring

Business development

MicroStation

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Trimble Access

Education

Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor

Tools

MicroStation

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Trimble Access

Job description

Survey Manager RPLS

Role Description: Huitt-Zollars has a great full-time opportunity for a Survey Manager/RPLS in our El Paso, Texas office. This role will lead and manage the El Paso survey department, including survey staff, project delivery, scheduling, and project budgets. The Survey Manager/RPLS will also collaborate with and support other Huitt-Zollars offices and project teams, providing surveying expertise and additional project capacity as workload and project needs require.

Location: El Paso, Texas

Employment Type: 40 FT Hours
Compensation Type: Salary
Registration(s): Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) registration required

Duties:

• Manage several survey projects simultaneously which include scheduling, staffing and budgets.
• Prepare scope of services and detailed project budget for multiple projects.
• Ensure technical quality, scheduling, and profitability of projects.
• Act as primary client contact and build relationships with clients.
• Negotiate scope and fees of projects with clients and follow up on billing/collections.
• Conduct marketing of surveying and engineering services and business development to obtain additional survey projects.
• Prepare proposals, cost estimates, plats, legal descriptions, topographic surveys, right of way maps, ALTA, etc.
• Ensure QA and QC review is complete.
• Manage survey staff and mentor them to develop professionally.

Qualifications:

• Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
• Minimum 10 years of professional land surveying experience, including at least 5 years managing survey projects and survey staff.
• Office production experience including boundary, topographic and construction surveying.
• Business development experience.
• Knowledge in MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or Trimble Access, is a plus.
• Passion for building client relationships, marketing surveying, and engineering services.
• Strong desire to build a positive culture among staff.

Project Manager (PM) Role Annual Performance Goals & Expectations:

• Having a deep understanding of how your work and contributions as a co-owner add to Huitt-Zollars’ mission and core values.
• Maintaining expected Effective Labor Multiplier (ELM) on sum of all associated projects.
• Consistently upholds business processes including timely monthly A/R’s, invoicing, timekeeping, resource forecasting, percent completes, etc.
• Achieves personal sales goal.
• Achieves stated target personal utilization goal for PM.
• Understands, follows and ensures quality control measures and risk management measures are being applied and adhered to projects and daily operations.

This position is also required to adhere to Huitt-Zollars’ Core Value Competencies.

About Huitt-Zollars:

• Huitt-Zollars, Inc. is a privately held, 100% employee-owned leading Architectural and Engineering (A/E) firm since being established in 1975. Since then, our firm has been providing innovative planning, engineering, architectural and interior design, construction and program management, and design-build services to our clients.
• Located in more than 20 locations throughout 11 different US states, Huitt-Zollars holds a vision to improve the environment in which we live, work, and play. Employees/co-owners can expect to collaborate with their team, listen to client and community needs, and deliver world-class professional services. Learn more about a career with #teamHZ by viewing our LinkedIN Life page.

Benefits & Perks:

• Health insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
• Dental insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
• Vision insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
• MDLive Telehealth
• Employer-Paid Short- & Long-Term disability
• 8 Paid Holidays
• Employee Morale/Teambuilding events and activities
• Paid Vacation/Annual Leave
• Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Professional Societies and Registrations Fee Reimbursements
• Term Life / AD&D insurance
• Cancer and Specified Disease insurance
• Two retirement plans: 401(k) and an ESOP
• Work for an Employee-Owned firm

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, type/key-in data
• May lift and carry up to 50 pounds, hike up and down steep slopes carrying up to 50 pounds of survey equipment
• The employee must be able to concentrate on details, work under deadline pressures, apply sound logic and judgment, and prioritize tasks and responsibilities
• Employee may be asked to walk on uneven terrain
• May work in extreme weather conditions
• Bend, squat, dig monument holes, pound in stakes and rebar monuments
• Carry and use brush cutting equipment
• May drive survey vehicle

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Huitt-Zollars in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. Currently, Huitt-Zollars does not sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions.

Huitt-Zollars does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters without a previously signed third-party agreement. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to any Huitt-Zollars hiring manager or employee will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency submitting the unsolicited resume. Huitt-Zollars will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Human Resources team and without an active, fully executed service agreement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Huitt-Zollars is a federal contractor and subcontractor and abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a), which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on protected veteran status or disability and require affirmative action to employ and advance qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities#survey #RPLS #ESOP #registeredsurveyor #surveyor #IND