Survey Manager

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Survey Manager

Job type: Permanent, or would be willing to take a contractor in the short-term

Salary: £75,000 per year

Location: Birmingham

Work Structure: Hybrid, x4 days per week

Job Summary:

Generally, the Survey Manager is required develop and implement survey systems project wide. The Survey Manager is also required to assist the design process by assessing, where appropriate, if existing measured data of suitable quality already exists so as to avoid unnecessary mobilisation of resources and duplication of work

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop design for geospatial survey works project wide.
  • Working with subcontractors, advising, and periodically checking their survey works/records where appropriate or requested.
  • Ensure that subcontractors comply with survey specifications and requirements and follow the defined processes and procedures.
  • Identify and manage safety, programme, cost, environmental and community risks involved with survey
  • Ensure the works are carried out in accordance with the design reviewing subcontractors as-built surveys
  • Ensure that all data acquisition is processed and analysed correctly
  • Ensure the control points are up to date and the data acquisition is processed and analysed correctly. Provide all relevant parties with the new control point list
  • Advise on regular checks to project main control network
  • Bring non-conformances to the attention of the Engineering Lead, agreeing corrective action as quickly as possible.
  • Attend meetings with Sub-contractor’s engineering/surveying departments for verification surveys and control points register
  • Attend Survey collaboration meeting and prepare brief update, liaise with Survey Team to ensure consistent and collaborative approach to surveying is undertaken on the project.
  • Reviewing of survey reports
  • Ensure the final deliverable is accepted by the client
  • Implement and maintain a survey equipment register containing calibration and check and adjustment information.
  • Managing supply chain surveyors

Technical Skills and Competencies:

  • Have excellent communication skills (including presentation skills) in English, both written and verbal and the ability to report at both Project and Board level.
  • Ability to manage teams of people in a multi-disciplinary environment. Excellent organisational skills and the ability to plan ahead and manage own time.
  • A good working knowledge of the:
  • Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,
  • Construction Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996
  • Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015
  • Management of health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and
  • other relevant legislation

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience:

  • Experience within a similar role within an appropriately sized engineering organisation.
  • Educated to degree or higher level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, typically Engineering discipline (or related). A lower educational level, typically HNC or HND, may be acceptable where a very significant level of experience in a senior technical engineering role can be demonstrated.
  • Membership of an appropriate Professional body, typically Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or an international equivalent professional status.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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