Survey Party Chief

Consor is currently looking for a Survey Party Chief to join our Construction Services Surveying team specializing in transportation-related structures in our Phoenix Downtown office. As a dynamic and growing engineering consulting firm, Consor has many opportunities for career development.   

• Prepares and surveys assigned locations.
• Directs and assists a field survey crew to locate existing survey monuments, sets traverse points for control, sets new survey monuments for use as control points, and paints and/or sets targets for aerial mapping.
• Directs and assists a survey crew on multiple transportation construction projects.
• Makes minor adjustments to the methods and workflow to accommodate changing conditions.
• Verifies locations of construction project items in the field and in the plans.
• Clarifies and interprets plans for subordinates, project field personnel, and contractor personnel.
• Provides advice to project personnel, keeping them informed of project construction plan changes.
• Performs daily tasks by demonstrating proper procedures for using specialized equipment.
• Operates a variety of survey equipment including Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite receivers, total stations, and electronic levels to establish horizontal and vertical control.
• Compiles field survey books.
• Prepares maps, diagrams, and sketches, annotates photographs and writes field survey notes.
• Writes detailed descriptions of survey site control points and monuments for geodetic positions and later recovery.
• Draws maps for each project, notes angles, distances, and calculates slopes.
• Composes and completes a transit book to record all survey data.
• Sets or directs others to set traffic control signals on job site for workers’ safety.
• Reviews subordinates’ work in progress, or upon completion, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of computations and measurements.
• Explains and demonstrates basic survey field methods to other field personnel.
• Performs other related duties such as testing and maintaining survey equipment and operation and maintaining assigned vehicles.   

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• RLS, NICET Level III, or NSPS Level III Certification
• Experience providing heavy construction staking/layout for transportation structures (i.e. bridges, underpasses, overpasses, etc).
• Experience with operating survey instruments including electronic total stations, digital and automatic levels, GPS equipment and robotics, and entering data in electronic surveying equipment, field books, and computers.
• Minimum ten years field surveying experience or Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.