Senior Land Surveyor

Job description / Role

The Senior Land Surveyor is part of the shared services team and will be providing all necessary assistance to the construction supervision team with respect to all surveying works and quantity measurement aspects for the project. The Senior Land Surveyor is the leader of the land surveyors team assigned for each discipline under the respective Resident Engineer.

Job Accountabilities:
- Advice the SRE and RE’s and recommend actions concerning construction surveys.
- Maintain the construction surveys and quantity records.
- Direct the initial baseline and control surveys including establishment of bench marks and recovery of any existing survey monuments to be removed at the start of the project.
- Supervise and direct the field survey parties to comply with the Contractor’s request for surveys, including the checking of the Contractor’s setting out of centrelines, structures, slope stakes, etc.
- Check the field measurement surveys including original and final cross sections, check critical elevations, dimensions and locations of structural elements, earthwork grading, pavement and appurtenances, check the Contractor’s detailed survey in advance of construction operations, investigate and clarify survey discrepancies.
- Establish the format and standard procedures for calculation and documentation of quantities.
- Conduct training in the use of modern survey equipment.
- Supervise the maintenance of the equipment and involve in the calibration and checking of the survey instruments.
- Coordinate and schedule all survey works to serve all disciplines as required by the different RE’s.
- Involve in the as-built review and finalization in coordination with RE’s, site engineers, land surveyors and inspectors.

Requirements

- BSc Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
- Min of 10 postgraduate years of experience and a min. of 7 years of similar work experience on large infrastructure projects.
- Regional experience is preferred.
- Qualified professional who can manage and coordinate specialized activity, discipline or team of moderate size and complexity.
- Leads in the formulation of advanced technical concepts.
- Provides specialist services in support of project requirements.
- Independently performs highly complex professional assignments demanding contributions calling for the application of specialized principles.

About the Company

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