Survey Crew Chief

What We're Looking For:
The Survey Crew Chief plays a key leadership role in delivering high-quality surveying services by overseeing field operations and guiding team members in the execution of accurate, efficient surveys. In this position, you will support and direct daily field activities, including briefing and debriefing crews, processing field notes and data, retracing or surveying property boundaries, and drafting maps and reports. Working with minimal supervision, you will help prepare final surveys for review and approval by a Registered Land Surveyor. This role is ideal for a skilled survey technician ready to step into a leadership capacity mentoring others, ensuring quality control, and contributing to the successful delivery of surveying projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in performing a subset of tasks for project planning including pricing, planning, estimation, and coordination of tasks for a project.
• Contact and communicate with Clients, Project Managers, Surveyors, Geomaticist, Managers, and other stakeholders providing accurate data.
• Perform field surveying for various projects and ensure accuracy of data collected by the field crew.
• Perform moderately complex field calculations (such as calculating horizontal and vertical geometry of roadways or for construction stake outs), determine property boundaries, retrace and survey boundary lines.
• Prepare finished grade sheets, topographic maps, records of survey, corner records, and other survey reports.
• Review field data, reports, and maps to ensure proper QA techniques, provide feedback and coaching back to project team.
• Conduct site visits ensuring proper QC standards are followed.
• Research existing record information, including record maps, plans, deeds, easements, and right-of-way documents, and ensure maintenance of field data records.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Two-year degree in Engineering Technology, Computer Drafting, Surveying, or equivalent with 7 years of relevant experience, or other relevant combination of education and/or experience
• Skilled in the use of maintenance of survey instruments (GPS, robotics, data collectors, level rods, etc.)
• Experienced in all aspects of land surveying including boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction staking, etc. with the ability to read and interpret various types of construction and property documents
• Ability to effectively instruct, direct, and lead others in the field
• Ability to read and interpret plats, deeds, easements, and plans
• Knowledge of field surveying practices and procedures; building knowledge of office surveying practices and procedures
• Valid driver's license and sufficient driving record
• Ability to work varying schedules
• Ability to travel at times and overnight

Daily work environment includes working out of doors and inrough terrain. Individuals will walk, sit, and stand while operating variousequipment, tools, and machinery. Individuals may need to carry, push, pull, orlift up to 50 lbs. Individuals may need to climb to various elevations andrequires visual acuity sufficient to read alpha/numeric symbols and performcomputation and design.

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions,Inc.,is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinarypractice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 550+ people strong andserves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)'s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record's Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified GreatPlace To Work®.


Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company's core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate - Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic - Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible - We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence - We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service - We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled