Senior Survey Lead

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Sr. Survey Lead for our utility clients. As a member of our program team, the Sr. Survey Lead will oversee all Survey related activities, manage the coordination of all survey contractors and or subcontractors, and manage the scope, schedule, and budget for Survey related efforts. 

The Sr. Survey Lead will assist with the development of survey scoping packages to attract well developed proposals and competitive fees from survey firms. The Sr. Survey Lead will work with all stakeholders and client as needed to conduct surveys effectively and efficiently and use the output for next steps of the project (engineering, design, and construction). 

The Sr. Survey Lead will coordinate with all stakeholders to ensure that survey works are efficiently and effectively coordinated and executed in a timely manner that meets the requirement of assigned projects portfolio. The Sr. Survey Lead with proactively review deliverables with survey team leadership to identify and cause correction individual or programmatic deficiencies and promote best practices and lessons learned from survey teams.

The job responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:

• Shall serve as lead representative for E&D with regards to survey discussion within subcontract and contract survey pool.
• This position will  work on both an office environment and field locations as needed.
• Provide professional & technical oversight and guidance.  Perform project research, logistics and management, review plats and prepare legal descriptions.
• Has extensive experience with base mapping and associated processes including deed and record map research, existing monumentation survey, field data reconciliation, boundary line analysis and final map preparation.
• Has working knowledge of design, construction and permitting of new underground and overhead power distribution lines.
• Has experience with evaluating survey firm proposals and awarding survey work.
• Expected to be a self-starter and result oriented individual with strong interpersonal, organizational, problem-solving, collaboration and leadership skills and ability to communicate and coordinate project goals to the rest of technical staff and other team members.
• Experienced in checking completed Survey job packages for adequacy of design and documentation.
• Provide input on control, boundary, subdivision, heavy civil, topographic & design surveys, and aerial mapping control.
• Understand and identify basic sources of measurement errors.  Perform mathematical calculations and check field data.
• Perform data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks and staking computations using survey programs