Working within the Civil Works Alliance (a partnership between Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O'Rourke), you'll lead surveying activities across major civil engineering works, ensuring the accurate collection, management and reporting of spatial data that underpins the successful delivery of one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects. As a Survey Manager, you'll provide technical leadership to a growing survey team, working closely with engineering, construction and design teams to deliver high-quality surveying solutions that support safe, efficient and cost-effective project delivery. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced surveying professional looking to combine technical expertise with leadership and team development. What You'll Be Doing
- Leading and managing all surveying activities across allocated project work packages
- Managing and developing a team of surveyors, survey technicians and specialist subcontractors
- Developing survey strategies, methodologies and delivery programmes to support construction activities
- Ensuring the accurate establishment and maintenance of project control networks, benchmarks and survey data
- Reviewing and validating survey information, calculations and technical reports to ensure accuracy and quality
- Working closely with engineering, construction and design teams to support the delivery of complex civil engineering works
- Managing survey equipment, calibration programmes and digital survey technologies
- Implementing quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) processes across surveying activities
- Identifying and mitigating surveying risks while ensuring compliance with project, regulatory and health & safety requirements
- Promoting continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and implementing best practice across the project
Significant experience in a Survey Manager or Senior Surveying role within major civil engineering, infrastructure or construction projects - Strong technical knowledge of surveying principles, control networks and geospatial data management
- Experience using GPS, GNSS, Total Stations, Laser Scanning, UAV/Drone surveying technologies and digital survey platforms
- Proficiency with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, GIS and survey data processing software
- Strong leadership, organisational and project management skills with experience managing survey teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to project delivery
- Degree qualified in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering or a related discipline
- Membership of, or progress towards, RICS or a relevant professional body would be advantageous
- This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes - Sizewell C - a once-in-a-generation clean energy project that will help power over 6 million homes for decades to come., We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
- Why Join Us?
- Be part of one of the UK's largest and most complex infrastructure projects
- Lead surveying activities that support nationally significant civil engineering works
- Work within a collaborative alliance environment alongside industry-leading organisations
- Manage and develop a growing surveying team using the latest digital surveying technologies
- Long-term career opportunities within a major programme of works
- Competitive salary, benefits and hybrid working arrangements, Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
- As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace. We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email #LI-SG1
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Personal accident and injury insurance
- Income protection
- Pension - basic & enhanced
- Annual leave
- Discounts portal
- Online doctor
- Voluntary benefits
- Work-life benefits
- Employee assistance programme
- Car/travel allowance
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Survey Manager in Ipswich employer: Laing O'Rourke
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