Survey Crew Chief

What We're Looking For:

Are you an experienced survey professional looking to take the next step in your career? We’re seeking a Survey Crew Chief to lead and support field operations with precision and professionalism. In this role, you’ll play a key part in briefing and debriefing field crews, processing field data, retracing and surveying property boundaries, and preparing final surveys and maps for approval. Working under minimal supervision, you’ll ensure high-quality deliverables and contribute to the success of our survey projects from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Assists in performing a subset of tasks for project planning including pricing, planning, estimation, and coordination of tasks for a project.
• Contacts and communicates with Clients, Project Managers, Surveyors, Geomaticist, Managers, and other stakeholders providing accurate data.
• Performs field surveying for various projects and ensures accuracy of data collected by the field crew.
• Performs moderately complex field calculations (such as calculating horizontal and vertical geometry of roadways or for construction stake outs), determines property boundaries, retraces and surveys boundary lines.
• Prepares finished grade sheets, topographic maps, records of survey, corner records, and other survey reports.
• Reviews field data, reports, and maps to ensure proper QA techniques, provides feedback and coaching back to project team. Conducts site visits ensuring proper QC standards are followed.
• Researches existing record information, including record maps, plans, deeds, easements, and right-of-way documents; and ensure maintenance of field data records.
• This position directly leads and mentors others while engaged in field surveying work.
• Daily work environment includes working out of doors and in rough terrain. Individuals will walk, sit, stand while operating various equipment, tools and machinery. Individuals may need to carry, push, pull, or lift up to 50. Individuals may need to climb to various elevations and requires visual acuity sufficient to read alpha/ numeric symbols and perform computation and design.
• Valid driver's license and sufficient driving record.
• Ability to work varying schedules.
• Ability to travel at times, and overnight.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Two year degree in Engineering Technology, Computer Drafting, Surveying, or equivalent with 2 years of relevant experience, or other relevant combination of education and/ or experience.
• Skilled in the use and 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.

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions,Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 550+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple 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 Great Place 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