Surveyor

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Job Summary:

Provide support as required to the construction team reporting directly to the Project Survey Manager (PSM). Leads survey field and office teams in an assigned area of the project.

Activities relating to construction engineering, layout of foundation locations, equipment locations, structural steel placement, subcontracts, and engineering liaison with the design functional group.  Use design drawings, model, and specifications to determine associated plant and equipment locations.

Works with field engineering to support field verification of materials as appropriate and needed.

Provides technical support as related to survey to field engineering and superintendents in a wide range of situation and configurations. Multi-Disciplined Field Engineering responsibilities with earthwork, excavation, concrete, structural steel, mechanical, and piping, etc. installation experience.

Position will start off in Houston but will transfer to one of our Gulf Coast LNG Projects. #LI-TH1 

Major Responsibilities:

The Surveyor’s duties include, but not limited to, the following:

• Leads the oversight of direct-hire survey crews for an assigned area, coordinating all Survey field and office activities
• Support the survey team’s implementation of the project safety, quality, and environmental programs
• Provide Construction Survey support to both Field Engineering and Field Supervision
• Establish and/or verify and maintain the project’s survey control network
• Supervise direct hire and/or sub-contracted survey crews, including verification of survey crews’ control points and work
• Utilize survey instruments in conformance with Bechtel’s Survey Procedure, (SWPP3201)
• Responsible for the accurate layout of construction work, recordation of field data according to job specifications and appropriate methods of performing survey activities
• Develop and maintain survey data
• Perform Calibration Baseline checks of survey instruments
• Support the administration of the survey work request program
• Perform and/or check survey computations as required in the performance of duties
• Perform and/or check the preparation of survey CAD drawings, including generation of Digital Terrain Models (DTM) and volumes computations
• Perform and/or check survey control network least squares adjustment computations
• Provide Civil project completion documentation including "As-Built" records
• Supports the creation and implementation of the project survey plan
• Supports the operation of the project’s UAV/Drone program
• Supports the implementation of project’s Laser Scanning program
• Supports the implementation of project’s Metrology program
• Supports the creation and implementation of the survey training program

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10  years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior Bechtel Survey Mega-Project experience
• Experience with UAV/Drones
• Knowledge of supervisory functions relating to Laser Scanning field & office activities
• Knowledge of supervisory functions relating to Metrology field & office activities
• Experience working with, supervising, and administering subcontractors workforce
• Experience managing technical services subcontracts is desirable

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