Senior Land Surveyor

Role Purpose

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and supervise daily surveying activities, ensuring accurate setting-out for roads, utilities, drainage, structures, landscaping, and earthworks.
• Establish and maintain survey control points, benchmarks, traverses, and coordinate systems throughout the project lifecycle.
• Verify construction works by carrying out line, level, alignment, and dimensional checks in accordance with approved drawings and specifications.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Construction, and QA/QC teams to ensure survey information supports efficient and accurate project execution.
• Prepare and review survey calculations, setting-out data, survey reports, and as-built drawings for submission and project records.
• Supervise and mentor Surveyors and Survey Assistants, ensuring compliance with surveying standards and best practices.
• Ensure calibration, maintenance, and proper utilisation of survey equipment including Total Stations, GNSS/GPS receivers, Digital Levels, and related surveying instruments.
• Identify and resolve surveying discrepancies, coordinate technical solutions, and provide accurate engineering data to support construction activities.
• Support quantity verification, progress measurement, and handover surveys where required.
• Maintain survey documentation, control records, calibration certificates, and quality documentation in accordance with project requirements.
• Ensure compliance with HSE procedures during surveying operations and promote safe working practices across all survey activities.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8–12+ years of surveying experience within infrastructure or heavy civil construction projects.
• Minimum 3 years in a senior surveying role supervising survey teams.
• Strong experience delivering infrastructure projects including roads, bridges, utilities, drainage, earthworks, marine works, and public realm developments.
• Advanced knowledge of Total Stations, GNSS/GPS equipment, Digital Levels, and survey software.
• Strong understanding of engineering drawings, coordinate systems, control networks, and construction tolerances.