Survey Intern

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Bright People

Powerful Solutions

Better Communities

CRW Engineering Group, Inc (CRW) is currently seeking candidates for a full time, seasonal Survey Intern position for summer 2026. This seasonal full-time position provides the opportunity for progressive responsibility and training under the direction of a licensed Professional Land Surveyor, with an opportunity to continue working part-time during the school year.

CRW is a growing multidiscipline engineering and surveying firm with offices in Anchorage, Palmer, and Seattle. Our staff of nearly 100 provides planning, design, and construction support services for federal, state, municipal, tribal, and private clients on projects in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Weve been helping build better communities for over 40 years.

The successful candidate will obtain surveying experience in rural and urban communities throughout Alaska, performing boundary & subdivision plats, topographic, right-of-way, ALTA, Hydrographic, UAV Aerial, and Laser Scanning surveys.

Will have the opportunity to work on many different types of projects, including road improvement, water and sewer, drainage and site improvement projects, restaurants, schools, power plants, bulk fuel, water treatment plants, airports, flood modeling, and riverine and coastal erosion.

Utilizing Leica GPS, robotic, laser scanning surveying equipment, Leica & DJI drones, and Sonarmite DFX echosounder hydrographic equipment. We often use 4-wheelers, snow machines, and boats to perform our work. In the office, the work includes data reduction and mapping using Leica, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, and Pix4D software.

Primary Responsibilities

• Providing assistance to the Survey Technicians and Professional Land Surveyors by applying sound technical skills and knowledge of surveying learned in college courses and acquiring practical experience in broad areas of assignments in the field and office.

Project site support could include travel to locations in the greater Anchorage area and throughout Alaska in rural and urban areas, documenting field conditions with photographs, generating concept-level sketches, and / or setting up field surveying equipment to perform all types of land surveying in support of engineering projects.

Project organization support, including filing, purging, archiving, and general file coordination.

General operations assistance, including as-needed event and project coordination, equipment maintenance, and resource management support.

Project research and support, including assisting with the completion of calculations, reports, specifications, drawings, and manuals.

Qualifications, Education, and Experience

Shall be a surveying student enrolled in surveying courses at an ABET-accredited surveying program.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Accuracy, thoroughness, and timeliness.

Hard working, positive can-do attitude and career orientated.

Should have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs. CAD, and / or GIS, Leica survey equipment experience is a plus.

Ability to occasionally lift and / or move up to 30 lbs.

Capable of working in adverse weather and terrain conditions.

Must have valid Alaska Drivers License.

Willing to travel to remote Alaskan communities for short periods.

Shall be able to work 40 hours per week.

Shall be able to travel to various project sites.

Shall be able to access and navigate job sites and construction areas.

CRWs collaborative approach fosters innovative solutions to diverse challenges in exciting environments. Many of our interns are asked to become permanent, full-time professionals upon graduation.

Come help us engineer a better community!

CRW Engineering Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.