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Licensed Survey Manager

Apex Companies
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Mar 2026
💰 $180,000/yr($140,000/yr$180,000/yr)

About the role

Are you highly motivated, hard-working, and seeking to join a growth-focused consulting & engineering firm? Are you looking for a company that will invest in your development and grow your professional skills? If so, consider a career with Apex!

Powered by record sales, extraordinary client retention, strategic acquisitions, and an entrepreneurial spirit, Apex Companies is one of the fastest growing engineering and environmental consulting firms in the US. We were recently recognized by the Zweig Group as one of the fastest growing firms in the AEC industry. We take pride in providing our clients with exceptional service and have earned numerous awards for project excellence. We continue to grow, and we want you to grow with us.

CWE, An Apex Company, is a dynamic, award-winning provider of consulting, engineering, technical, and construction management services. Clients trust CWE, An Apex Company, to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to solve complex problems involving civil infrastructure, water resources, and the environment.  CWE, An Apex Company, is an integrated firm with a reputation for delivering engineering solutions that improve the quality of life in a fiscally responsible and holistic manner, consistent with our vision of Creating a better tomorrow, today™.  We develop and implement real world solutions that are practical and cost-effective to create value for our clients and enhance our communities and environment.

CWE is seeking an experienced Licensed Surveyor Manager to join our team in our Roseville, California office.  As a California Registered Professional Land Surveyor at CWE, you will take leadership on delivering our survey projects by taking a hands-on approach, working with teammates and clients, and optimizing internal processes and standards.  This role is ideal for a candidate with strong technical, management, and interpersonal skills who thrives on delivering precise, high-quality results.  The PLS will oversee fieldwork, documentation, deliverables, client relations, and ensure that projects adhere to the CWE Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) standards.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

  • Responsible for leading and supervising the Roseville office surveyors and survey technicians as they develop and create solutions to technical problems and overseeing work production and quality control.
  • Provide day to day assignments and technical guidance to survey staff.
  • Under limited supervision, manage a variety of surveying service functions that could include drafting, survey support, field survey, document control or other surveying support activities.
  • Ensure the timely, thorough, and accurate completion of all survey services projects.
  • Ensure survey deliverables and documentation packages are complete.
  • Maintain project number assignments and customer documentation.
  • Responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and mentoring employees; project budgeting, project scheduling; and designing administrative procedures for the survey department.
  • Write performance reviews and solve internal issues.
  • As needed, and not limited to, provide party chief services on various field surveying duties, including boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA Surveys, and construction staking. Other activities will include in-office survey and mapping calculations and plans, and preparation of construction staking cut sheets.
  • Perform survey mapping and survey field work, ensuring that high quality products are produced within the schedule that our clients require. Use the CWE Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) checklists for survey deliverables.
  • Performance measures for this role include but are not limited to: maintaining a minimum 70% utilization rate, staying within the allotted budgets for tasks, and maintaining quality control. These performance measures will be analyzed and revisited periodically and be a direct indicator of your performance.  Your role will grow over time to include harvesting and winning new work from new and existing clients.
  • Write scope and approach narratives for proposals and develop cost/fee estimates for work.
  • Keep abreast of the state-of-the-art survey techniques. 
  • Maintain good relationships with team members, sub-consultants, vendors, and clients.
  • Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and sub-consultants in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Be the liaison with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
  • Developing new business relationships to broaden CWE’s client base.
  • Travel to conduct field visits, survey activities, and consult with clients and agencies.

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