Project Surveyor, Aviation – Geodesy

🔥 12 hours ago

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $57.8k - $86.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Woolpert

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1911

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $2.9M Venture Round on 2022-11

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Woolpert is a leading global geospatial and engineering services provider specializing in delivering cutting-edge mapping, analysis, and modeling solutions. With expertise in urban planning, environmental analysis, asset maintenance, and smart city initiatives, Woolpert utilizes advanced technologies such as Aerial LiDAR and 3D modeling to support sectors like government, mining, and energy. They significantly contribute to data-driven decision-making and enhance operational efficiency in various projects worldwide.

📋 Description

• Lead survey tasks and project phases from planning and scoping through final delivery • Review project scopes, RFPs, plans, specifications, records, and client requirements to establish survey limits, technical approaches, staffing, schedules, and budgets • Develop survey methodologies based on project requirements, site conditions, accuracy standards, schedule, and available technology • Plan and coordinate horizontal and vertical control, GNSS/GPS observations, total station surveys, leveling, topographic, construction, boundary, right-of-way, and supplemental design surveys • Coordinate boundary and property research, including deeds, plats, easements, field evidence, and right-of-way determinations • Prepare and review survey deliverables including plats, legal descriptions, exhibits, reports, control documentation, basemapping, surface models, and design-ready datasets • Integrate conventional survey data with UAS, terrestrial lidar, aerial imagery and photogrammetry, mobile mapping, GNSS, GIS, and other geospatial datasets • Oversee survey data processing, adjustments, feature coding, terrain development, planimetric mapping, and CADD production • Coordinate survey and subsurface utility information, including utility records, field evidence, test holes, and Quality Level A and B data when included in project scope • Apply applicable federal, state, local, client, CADD/GIS, and professional surveying standards • Develop and implement project-specific QA/QC procedures and review field observations, calculations, control networks, mapping, boundary and right-of-way determinations, surfaces, and final deliverables • Monitor project scope, schedule, staffing, and budget; identify risks or variances and coordinate corrective actions with project managers • Coordinate field activities, staffing, equipment, property access, traffic control, permitting, restricted-access requirements, and project-specific safety expectations • Provide technical direction and mentorship to survey crews, technicians, CADD personnel, and geospatial staff • Collaborate across engineering, transportation, aviation, utilities, GIS, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and other disciplines • Communicate with clients, contractors, subconsultants, property owners, utility representatives, government agencies, and internal teams • Support proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, schedules, fee estimates, presentations, interviews, and business development activities • Maintain organized project documentation and promote safety, quality, collaboration, accountability, innovation, and client service • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Associate degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology, Geography, GIS, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant professional experience will be considered • Extensive experience with Aviation surveys (18B) and a strong background in Geodesy strongly preferred • LSIT or Surveyor Intern certification preferred • Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating survey work for infrastructure, transportation, aviation, utility, land development, construction, or similar projects • Strong knowledge of professional land surveying practices, including boundary and topographic surveying, horizontal and vertical control, right-of-way, GNSS/GPS, total station surveying, differential leveling, aviation surveys, and construction survey support • Experience establishing, processing, adjusting, and documenting survey control networks • Familiarity with UAS, terrestrial lidar, mobile mapping, aerial photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and high-accuracy GNSS • Experience interpreting engineering plans, survey scopes, deeds, plats, easements, right-of-way plans, utility records, construction documents, and technical specifications • Experience preparing and reviewing survey calculations, plats, legal descriptions, exhibits, control reports, basemaps, terrain models, and related deliverables • Strong understanding of survey QA/QC principles and applicable surveying, mapping, CADD, and GIS standards • Ability to manage scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, project changes, and multiple concurrent assignments • Strong technical judgment, organization, and written and verbal communication skills • Ability to collaborate across disciplines and provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior staff • Commitment to professional ethics, quality, safety, client service, and applicable surveying laws and standards • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and commonly used project collaboration tools • Ability and willingness to travel, including occasional overnight travel • Must already possess work authorization in the United States; visa sponsorship unavailable • Ability to perform prolonged computer and office work and occasionally visit active survey, roadway, aviation, infrastructure, utility, and construction sites • Ability to safely work around active construction or transportation environments using required PPE • Ability to walk on uneven terrain and occasionally reach, bend, climb, balance, and lift or move project equipment

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate) • Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm • Flexible paid time off/vacation • Career development and learning opportunities • Health, life, vision, and dental insurance • Paid sick time • Retirement plan • Fitness reimbursement • Pet insurance • Identity protection • Technology stipend • Employee assistance program