Surveying Crew Chief

The Gateway Engineers, Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No cost health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Quarterly performance bonuses

401(k) match

Job summary

The Gateway Engineers, Inc. seeks a qualified Surveyor to oversee surveying crews and maintain equipment in Pittsburgh, PA. The ideal candidate will have an Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a Survey-related field or equivalent experience. Responsibilities include directing field operations, analyzing survey data, and ensuring accurate field notes. Benefits include health insurance, PTO, and a 401(k) match. Apply now to join a leading engineering firm focused on quality and excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in writing descriptions of surveys.
• Proficiency in searching legal records, survey records, and land titles.
• Ability to draft, prepare ALTA surveys, and perform construction stakeout.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and direct surveying crew activities.
• Make field adjustments to survey instruments.
• Maintain field notes for standard surveying operations.
• Interpret control point records and locate points in the field.

Skills

Survey planning

Field survey calculations

Reading/site plan interpretation

Trigonometry and geometry knowledge

Education

Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a Survey-related field

Job description

Benefits

• No cost health insurance
• Dental and vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
• Quarterly performance bonuses
• PTO and eight paid holidays
• 401(k) match & 401(k) Roth and Profit Sharing
• Student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement
• Company paid professional society memberships & professional licensure registration fees
• Employee referral program

Responsibilities

• Oversee, direct, and perform the activities of the assigned surveying crew.
• Responsible for the field adjustments on transits, total stations, total electronic stations, data collectors and codes, levels, compasses, and tripods.
• Knowledge of trigonometry, geometry, algebra, coordinate geometry, and basic surveying computations.
• Responsible for survey instruments and equipment.
• Responsible for the field notes for standard surveying operations: leveling, traversing, topographic mapping, layout, as-built surveys, boundary surveys, profile and cross-section surveys.
• Skilled knowledge of how to interpret control point records and data sheets, as well as locate points in the field.
• Skilled knowledge of basic plan reading and preparation (i.e. site plans, boundary plans, highway plans, profile and cross sections, horizontal and vertical curves, pipeline plans, foundation plans, and developing existing and finished contours).

The ideal candidate will have the following experience

• Writing descriptions of surveys.
• Searching legal records, survey records, and land titles.
• Drafting, ALTA preparation, and construction stakeout.
• Boundary and topographic.
• Interpreting and verifying survey data.
• Performing field survey calculations.

This opportunity requires

Education

• Associate's or Bachelor’s degree in a Survey related field, or equivalent experience.