Lead Surveyor Field Engineer

Company Description

Bantrel is proud to be a leading provider of Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Construction Management (EPC / EPCM) services in Canada.

For 40 years we have delivered end-to-end solutions for some of Canada’s most challenging and complex energy, mining, infrastructure, and nuclear projects, with an unrelenting focus on safety and quality. Bantrel performs design and procurement services from our primary Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto office locations and delivers construction management and self-perform construction services at various Client sites across Canada.

We operate independently but leverage the global expertise of and provide resources to our affiliate Bechtel Corporation, one of the largest EPC companies in the world, and remain Canadian focused including through our other shareholder, McCaig Investments, a respected local family group of businesses and deep community supporter.  Our private ownership provides long-term business planning and strategic decision horizons supported by a strong financial position.

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Job Description

We are currently seeking a qualified Lead Surveyor Field Engineer to join our Construction team, based out of Northern Nevada. The Lead Surveyor Field Engineer will provide support to the construction team reporting directly to the Project Field Engineer. As the Lead Surveyor Field Engineer, you will be responsible for supervising and/or directing activities relating to construction engineering, the layout of foundation & equipment locations, and structural steel placements.  As well will be the liaison between the functional design team and subcontracts. With the opportunity to work on Thacker Pass, this innovative EPCM project with Lithium Americas once complete, will produce more lithium carbonate than any other facility in the country – enough to power 1 million electric vehicles annually! Join us in this full-time permanent role and be a champion of diversity and inclusion.  

Must be eligible for a TN VISA to work in the United States. 

Position will be a 6 on, 2 off rotation within the state of Nevada.  The project is located in the high desert and wide-open spaces of north-central Nevada about 25 miles from the Oregon border, 1 hour northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada and 3 hours northeast of Reno. 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Use design drawings, model, and specifications to determine associated plant and equipment locations.  
• Working with field engineering to support field verification of materials as appropriate and needed.  
• Provide technical support as related to survey to Field Engineering and Superintendents in a wide range of situations and configurations.  
• Multi-Disciplined Field Engineering responsibilities with earthwork, excavation, concrete, structural steel, mechanical, and piping, etc. installation experience.
• Lead the oversight of all survey operations and overall quality and integrity of the surveying program, assuring that all survey work is performed with the highest regard for safety. 
• Provide technical direction to the direct-hire survey team and/or sub-contracted survey crews, including verification of survey crews’ control points and work.
• Direct the survey team’s implementation of the project safety, quality, and environmental programs. 
• Oversee the survey team’s implementation of the Survey Procedure (SWPP 3201) 
• Provide Construction Survey support to Field Engineering, Field Supervision, Construction Management, and Design Engineering.
• Establish and/or verify and maintain the project’s survey control network Responsible for the accurate layout of construction work, recordation of field data according to job specifications and appropriate methods of performing survey activities. 
• Oversee the development and management of survey data. 
• Oversee the Calibration Baseline checks of survey instruments. 
• Oversee the administration of the survey work request program. 
• Supervise the preparation of survey CAD drawings, including generation of Digital Terrain Models (DTM) and volume computations.