Survey Project Manager

Astra Surveying, LLC; Lake Buena Vista (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with immediate vesting company-mp

Paid Holidays

Immediate PTO time

Company truck and fuel card

Job summary

Astra Surveying is seeking a dynamic Project Survey Manager to lead our survey department in Jacksonville or Tampa and surrounding areas. You will oversee staff, coordinate crews, and drive project delivery while maintaining client relationships and budgets.

Responsibilities include managing ALTA, boundary and topographic surveys, providing training to field staff, and ensuring data accuracy and quality control across multiple concurrent projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading survey projects and staff.
• Strong client communication and project coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple surveys and budgets concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage survey department staff and projects.
• Schedule crews and track progress across jobs.
• Coordinate with clients, agencies, and contractors for multiple projects.
• Review drawings and draft survey data with office staff.
• Oversee ALTA, boundary, topographic, and plat surveys.
• Provide training and oversight to survey technicians.
• Ensure accuracy of survey data and calculations at sites.
• Develop criteria for methods, equipment, and CAD tools used.
• Establish and map property boundaries and legal descriptions.
• Prepare estimates for surveying services including ALTA surveys.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Survey coordination

Client communication

Team supervision

Tools

Robotic total station

GPS

Automatic levels

CAD tools

Data collection

Job description

Astra Surveying is a rapidly growing full service surveying company working throughout Florida specializing mostly in construction. We are seeking a dynamic team member for a Project Survey Manager position in Jacksonville or Tampa and surrounding areas. This position includes managing the survey department and staff, leading projects as a Survey Project Manager, business development activities and growth of the survey team.

Job Description includes, but not limited to:

• Manage, lead and support survey and CAD department staff
• Schedule survey crews and coordinate job progress
• Coordinate and communicate effectively with clients, reviewing agencies, contractors, etc. for multiple projects at a time
• Work closely with survey crew members and office staff to draft survey data and/or review drawings produced by others
• Effectively communicate with internal staff to gather all information needed for the drafting of survey related data
• Oversee completion of survey projects for boundary, topographic, ALTA surveys, subdivisions, partitions, and property descriptions
• Provide leadership, training and oversight of survey technicians and field personnel
• Communicate with management, clients and assigned survey field crews, in a positive manner, to maximize efforts related scope and budget
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey and construction sites
• Assist in establishing and developing criteria for survey methods and procedures, equipment maintenance, etc. as well as specifications of surveying equipment, Data Collection and CAD tools to be used in drafting and modeling
• Oversee land surveys with emphasis on quality and proper survey methodology
• Identify controls for property lines and make the appropriate decisions regarding how to proceed with the survey
• Interpret record documents and accurately represent them in a survey environment
• Oversee and direct surveys in order to establish and map boundaries for properties, topographic studies, construction features, etc. Including Maps, Reports, Legal Descriptions, etc.
• Prepare estimates for various types of surveying services including ALTA Surveys, platting, topographic surveys, construction staking, as-built surveys, data calculation, etc.
• Represent the company in a professional manner at all times

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in right-of-way mapping, control surveys, engineering design surveys, utility mapping, boundary, and topographic surveys, ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys, platting, condominium documents, construction staking, and as-built surveys
• Knowledge of Robotic total station, GPS, and automatic levels for data collection, with the ability to adapt to new equipment and technologies
• Understand and review construction staking calculations, Plats, Short Plats and Boundary Line Adjustments, Topographic mapping, Property boundary calculations, Easement documents, topographic maps from field data
• Able to interpret plans and provide accurate field crew setup for the construction activities
• Reduce field notes and prepare staking exhibits for contractors
• Ability to write new easement legal descriptions and interpret existing easement legal descriptions to draft their location in relation to a property boundary
• Experience preparing a topographic mapping lineout for field crews
• Able to calculate heights, depths, relative positions, 3D Modeling, and other characteristics and aspects of a construction project
• Experience searching legal records, survey records, plans, specifications, land titles, etc. in order to obtain information about property boundaries and other items of interest specific to the tasks to be surveyed
• Ability to perform necessary calculations essential to the practice of surveying
• Company truck and fuel card
• 401k with immediate 100% vested company match
• Immediate PTO time
• Paid Holidays

Astra Surveying is a DFWP employer. Astra Surveying is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender, gender expression or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.