Professional Surveyor/Project Manager

Ardurra is seeking a Professional Surveyor/Office Leader to join our staff in our growing Ocala, Florida Office. This is a great opportunity to take your career to the next level and to get out of the congested city and come to the rolling hills of horse country. 

Ardurra is a multidisciplinary civil engineering services firm which provides broad-based solutions tailored to the specific needs of the public and private sector. We leverage the depth of our professional and technical expertise, as well as our integrated structure, to deliver practical, innovative solutions for our clients.

We have been creating opportunities for our employees to develop both personally and professionally. As a result, our team has contributed to some of the nation’s most important infrastructure projects. These are projects that can positively impact people’s lives.

Primary Function

Manages the full life cycle (proposal-initiation-execution/control-closeout) of surveying projects for Ardurra. This includes managing all activities related to project scope, schedule, cost, cash flow, quality, communications, resources, procurement, and risk elements required to optimize client service, quality, and fiscal responsibility. The Project Manager’s overall objective is to build and maintain a positive client relationship, and to achieve or exceed the estimated profit margin for the project.

Primary Duties:

• Provides support for Survey Technician staff.
• Provide technical duties such as CAD drafting, preparing draft and final Word documents, generating reports, scanning, and filing.
• Prepares survey cost estimates and detailed proposals for survey projects.
• Review field notes from field survey, reduce and rectify raw data, and process field data.
• Provide in-office support to the department.
• Perform data entry, sort, and CAD drafting.
• Proficient with Ardurra’s standard CAD template.
• Helps train and orient new staff with Ardurra’s drafting and CAD standards.
• Assist in other general technical support as needed.
• Input and analyze data from field survey work into AutoCAD/Civil3D or other database and drafting or data processing systems.
• Conducts periodic training with office and field technician staff. Read and analyze legal descriptions from deeds and other records.
• Plot parcel lines based on metes and bounds descriptions, plats, and surveys.
• Prepare legal descriptions in Word.doc format.
• Prepare Sketch and Legal Descriptions.
• Prepare surveys, plats, legal descriptions, and reviews.
• Assist with right-of-way, deed, or other records research.
• Collaborate with Surveyors, Engineers, and Technicians as assigned or needed.
• Participates in project meetings and recurring project status meetings.
• Reviews draft survey drawings in preparation for submittal to client or review agencies.
• Responsible for signing and sealing surveys for which they are in direct supervision and control.
• Maintains continuing education as required for licensure.
• Membership and involvement in local survey society chapter and organization is encouraged.

Education and Experience:

• High School or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree in Geomatics or Engineering preferred.
• Currently licensed Professional Surveyor. (PSM in Florida) or able to obtain in 6 months. 
• Minimum of 2 years' experience as a Project Manager/Project Surveyor.
• Proficient with AutoCAD/Civil3D.
• Basic Math including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Capable of solving problems using Trigonometric and Geometric functions.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and work ethic.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Bluebeam (or Adobe).
• Ability to work together with a team or individually. Must be team-oriented and self-motivated

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work requires using a machete, shovel and sledgehammer or other appropriate tools. Lifting and carrying equipment weighing up to 50 lbs. over rough terrain may be required. Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate various pieces of field equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms, speak, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and smell. Able to get in and out of vehicle multiple times a day; drive 30 to 60 miles daily. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job. The employee works outside in all types of weather conditions, possibly for extended periods of time. The terrain may be rough, steep, wet or swampy. Vegetation may be dense, and insects, snakes or animals may be encountered.

Why Ardurra?

While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.

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