Survey Manager, Corporate Geospatial Specialist

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will coordinate and update survey strategy, provide technical support for laser scanning and meteorology surveys, and oversee survey computer aided design (CAD) drawings, instrument calibration, subcontractor survey work, and project drone operations. Your recommendations will ensure drone flight safety and high quality, accurate work delivered within schedule and budget. #LI-TH1

Major Responsibilities:

• Provides senior leadership and technical authority for all construction surveying and geospatial activities on large, complex, and first of a kind projects.
• Has full accountability for survey workforce planning, including staffing strategies, requisitions, training plans, competency development, performance management, and employee relations.
• Establishes and enforces safety, quality, environmental, and procedural compliance across all survey operations, ensuring zero accident expectations and safe work execution.
• Leads the planning, coordination, and execution of survey, monitoring, settlement, reality capture, machine control, metrology, and UAS programs in alignment with project priorities.
• Acts as the primary technical authority by reviewing engineering documents, models, survey calculations, and reports, and resolving complex construction and engineering issues.
• Oversees work planning and resource coordination with superintendents, Field Engineering, subcontractors, and construction management to ensure qualified survey support for planned scopes.
• Governs survey systems, software, equipment, and M&TE programs, including requisitioning, tracking, and lifecycle management.
• Ensures implementation and governance of Survey Control Networks, As Built documentation, record retention, and compliance with licensing and training requirements.
• Provides enterprise level geospatial expertise by coaching project teams, supporting field assessments, and ensuring training programs are executed by qualified personnel.
• Directs and mentors survey personnel across disciplines, ensuring appropriate skill alignment, continuous learning, and consistent application of standard work processes.
• Elevates scheduling constraints, risks, and execution challenges to construction leadership and drives resolution to protect safety, quality, and schedule outcomes.

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
• Extensive progressive experience in construction surveying and geospatial operations, including leadership of large, complex, or first‑of‑a‑kind projects.
  
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior technical authority, responsible for reviewing and approving survey methods, calculations, models, and deliverables.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven accountability for workforce planning and people leadership, including staffing strategies, training programs, competency development, performance management, and employee relations.
• Significant experience governing safety, quality, environmental, and procedural compliance across multi‑discipline survey operations.
• Hands‑on leadership experience with advanced survey and geospatial programs such as monitoring and settlement, reality capture, machine control, metrology, UAS, and digital survey systems.
• Experience coordinating and influencing across construction management, engineering, superintendents, and subcontractors to align resources and execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, escalate, and resolve complex technical, safety, and scheduling risks with material impact to project outcomes.
• Experience mentoring senior survey professionals and driving standardization, continuous improvement, and enterprise best practices.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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