Survey Manager

Role overview

Survey operations and delivery

• Lead surveying across infrastructure, road, utility, and building projects in compliance with contractual, client, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop strategies, procedures, and best practices to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• Provide technical leadership to Survey Managers, Chief Surveyors, Survey Engineers, and survey teams.
• Review and approve methodologies, control networks, topographic surveys, setting-out works, and final as-built submissions.
• Oversee GIS and as-built data collection and timely handover deliverables.
• Coordinate survey support for planning, construction, design verification, claims, and close-out.
• Resolve complex survey, construction, and utility coordination challenges.
• Review survey reports, progress reports, productivity analyses, and management dashboards.

Resources, tenders, and coordination

• Support strategic planning, resource forecasting, budgeting, and business development for surveying services.
• Assess surveying technologies, software, GNSS solutions, UAV applications, and digital engineering tools.
• Plan survey manpower, equipment, and resources; manage budgets, procurement planning, equipment utilization, and calibration.
• Support tendering with document reviews, quantity take-offs, manpower and equipment estimates, and execution strategies.
• Prepare survey technical proposals, method statements, risk assessments, and execution plans.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, government authorities, and utility stakeholders on survey, GIS, and handover requirements.

Quality, safety, and team development

• Ensure compliance with Ashghal, Kahramaa (KM), client specifications, and international surveying standards.
• Lead survey QA/QC procedures and ensure compliance with HSE, traffic management (ITM), and company requirements.
• Monitor survey teams and subcontractor performance against project specifications, quality standards, and contracts.
• Mentor and develop survey personnel, identify competency gaps, and establish professional development programs.
• Perform other duties assigned by executive management to support project delivery.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in surveying or civil engineering; certification in surveying instruments is preferred.
• 15–20 years of construction surveying experience, including at least five years leading survey teams across multiple projects.