Senior Land Surveyor

Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity. Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.

Why Ferrovial?

• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
• Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross‑business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
• Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
• Productivity tools: Utilize cutting‑edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.

Job Description

As Senior Surveying Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority for all surveying matters within Ferrovial Construction at Heathrow Airport, providing leadership, governance and specialist expertise across multiple projects from tender stage to completion. You will be responsible for ensuring surveying activities are delivered safely, accurately and in accordance with project requirements, while supporting the development of surveying capability, standards and innovation across the organisation.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Acting as the technical authority and main point of contact for technical surveying matters.
• Managing and coordinating surveyors and specialist subcontractors across multiple projects, including collaboration with project managers, site teams, designers and client representatives.
• Ensuring surveying personnel are trained, competent and working safely, while mentoring junior surveyors and supporting capability development.
• Providing technical support, troubleshooting and guidance on survey‑related issues across projects.
• Planning and managing survey activities, including methodologies, accuracy requirements, resources, programmes, desk studies and site familiarisation.
• Reviewing and approving drawings, specifications, methodologies, setting out strategies and subcontractor deliverables to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Establishing and maintaining survey control networks, including GNSS, traversing and precise levelling, and overseeing audits and verification checks.
• Delivering and managing structural monitoring, laser scanning, and digital survey outputs.
• Managing QA/QC processes, including data validation, accuracy checks, instrument calibration, and verification procedures.
• Identifying survey risks, investigating discrepancies, and implementing mitigation and corrective actions.
• Supporting design teams by advising on survey constraints, assumptions and achievable tolerances.
• Developing and maintaining surveying standards, procedures and best practices.
• Managing survey equipment selection, procurement, hire and utilisation.
• Researching and implementing innovative surveying technologies and digital workflows (e.g., laser scanning, robotics, UAVs).
• Providing surveying input into tenders, methodologies, construction planning and technical proposals.
• Supporting the continuous development of surveying capability across the business.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Preferably qualified to diploma or certificate level in civil engineering, geomatics or land surveying.
• Expert‑level technical knowledge of modern surveying instruments (GNSS/GPS, 3D laser scanners, digital levels, total stations) and drafting/mapping software (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, StarNet, ReCap, Leica Cyclone/Trimble Business Center/Leica GeoMos/Pix4D, GIS).
• Site and office surveying experience.
• Experience leading and managing survey teams/projects, using Leica/Trimble/Topcon instruments; on‑field GPS static measurements, transformations, primary control installation measurements, adjustment calculations; setting up and managing monitoring reports; developing method statements and risk assessments.

Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge of, or experience in, the construction industry.
• Experience operating total stations and automated levels.
• Experience in instrumentation and monitoring (preferential).
• Experience interpreting data from survey campaigns.
• Highly detail‑oriented.
• Strong analytical skills.
• IT skills, including knowledge of industry‑specific software.

Please note that this job description does not represent a comprehensive list of activities and employees may be requested to undertake other reasonable duties. Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all job applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.