Description

Consor is currently looking for a Survey Party Chief to join our Construction Services Surveying team specializing in transportation-related structures in our Phoenix Downtown office. As a dynamic and growing engineering consulting firm, Consor has many opportunities for career development.   

• Prepares and surveys assigned locations.
• Directs and assists a field survey crew to locate existing survey monuments, sets traverse points for control, sets new survey monuments for use as control points, and paints and/or sets targets for aerial mapping.
• Directs and assists a survey crew on multiple transportation construction projects.
• Makes minor adjustments to the methods and workflow to accommodate changing conditions.
• Verifies locations of construction project items in the field and in the plans.
• Clarifies and interprets plans for subordinates, project field personnel, and contractor personnel.
• Provides advice to project personnel, keeping them informed of project construction plan changes.
• Performs daily tasks by demonstrating proper procedures for using specialized equipment.
• Operates a variety of survey equipment including Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite receivers, total stations, and electronic levels to establish horizontal and vertical control.
• Compiles field survey books.
• Prepares maps, diagrams, and sketches, annotates photographs and writes field survey notes.
• Writes detailed descriptions of survey site control points and monuments for geodetic positions and later recovery.
• Draws maps for each project, notes angles, distances, and calculates slopes.
• Composes and completes a transit book to record all survey data.
• Sets or directs others to set traffic control signals on job site for workers' safety.
• Reviews subordinates' work in progress, or upon completion, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of computations and measurements.
• Explains and demonstrates basic survey field methods to other field personnel.
• Performs other related duties such as testing and maintaining survey equipment and operation and maintaining assigned vehicles. 

• Minimum ten years field surveying experience or Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT).
• RLS, NICET Level III, or NSPS Level III Certification
• Experience providing heavy construction staking/layout for transportation structures (i.e. bridges, underpasses, overpasses, etc).
• Experience with operating survey instruments including electronic total stations, digital and automatic levels, GPS equipment and robotics, and entering data in electronic surveying equipment, field books, and computers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.  

• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazards, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

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