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Licensed Survey Manager
CWE
Roseville1w ago
About the role
<p>CWE, an Apex Company, is seeking an experienced <strong>Licensed Surveyor Manager</strong> to join our team in our<strong> </strong>Roseville, California office. As a California Registered Professional Land Surveyor, you will take leadership on delivering our survey projects by taking a hands-on approach, working with teammates and clients, and optimizing internal processes and standards. This role is ideal for a candidate with strong technical, management, and interpersonal skills who thrives on delivering precise, high-quality results. The PLS will oversee fieldwork, documentation, deliverables, client relations, and ensure that projects adhere to the firm's Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) standards.</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Responsible for leading and supervising the Roseville office surveyors and survey technicians as they develop and create solutions to technical problems and overseeing work production and quality control.</li>
<li>Provide day to day assignments and technical guidance to survey staff.</li>
<li>Under limited supervision, manage a variety of surveying service functions that could include drafting, survey support, field survey, document control or other surveying support activities.</li>
<li>Ensure the timely, thorough, and accurate completion of all survey services projects.</li>
<li>Ensure survey deliverables and documentation packages are complete.</li>
<li>Maintain project number assignments and customer documentation.</li>
<li>Responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and mentoring employees; project budgeting, project scheduling; and designing administrative procedures for the survey department.</li>
<li>Write performance reviews and solve internal issues.</li>
<li>As needed, and not limited to, provide party chief services on various field surveying duties, including boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA Surveys, and construction staking. Other activities will include in-office survey and mapping calculations and plans, and preparation of construction staking cut sheets.</li>
<li>Perform survey mapping and survey field work, ensuring that high quality products are produced within the schedule that our clients require. Use the firm's Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) checklists for survey deliverables.</li>
<li>Performance measures for this role include but are not limited to: maintaining a minimum 70% utilization rate, staying within the allotted budgets for tasks, and maintaining quality control. These performance measures will be analyzed and revisited periodically and be a direct indicator of your performance. Your role will grow over time to include harvesting and winning new work from new and existing clients.</li>
<li>Write scope and approach narratives for proposals and develop cost/fee estimates for work.</li>
<li>Keep abreast of the state-of-the-art survey techniques. </li>
<li>Maintain good relationships with team members, sub-consultants, vendors, and clients.</li>
<li>Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and sub-consultants in a timely and clear fashion.</li>
<li>Be the liaison with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.</li>
<li>Developing new business relationships to broaden the firm's client base.</li>
<li>Travel to conduct field visits, survey activities, and consult with clients and agencies.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Required Competencies and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>California Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license. </li>
<li>12+ years of experience in Surveying, Civil Engineering or related field(s).</li>
<li>Demonstrated leadership experience overseeing and guiding office surveyors and survey technicians.</li>
<li>Expertise in survey equipment use, configuration, troubleshooting, procurement, repair (e.g. theodolite, total station, drones, GPS/GNSS, etc..), in the field and in the office.</li>
<li>Expertise in Survey software, including but not limited to GIS/GPS, aerial and non-aerial cartography, data collectors, etc.</li>
<li>Proficient knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D software, PDF software, such as Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat, etc., and in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, etc.).</li>
<li>Abilities to grasp and become proficient in new software and technologies</li>
<li>Ability to pay attention to detail with a high level of accuracy.</li>
<li>Demonstrates a strong work ethic.</li>
<li>Good interpersonal abilities for working in a team environment.</li>
<li>Excellent written and oral communication skills.</li>
<li>Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and take direction.</li>
<li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.</li>
<li>Ability to self-motivate and work productively without supervision.</li>
<li>Proactive approach/self-starter/takes initiative</li>
<li>Ability to kneel, climb, and lift up to 50 lbs.</li>
<li>Valid California driver’s license and insurable driving record</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desired Competencies and Qualifications:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Background in surveying for complex properties and right-of-way issues.</li>
<li>Knowledge of land geographic information systems (GIS) and boundary law.</li>
<li>Familiarity with surveying for subdivisions, planned unit developments (PUD), and parcel maps.</li>
<li>High attention to detail, flexibility, and adaptability to work in varying conditions.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Why you'll love working for us:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Company-subsidized medical and dental</li>
<li>Company-paid life, short- and long-term disability</li>
<li>401k match, tuition assistance, and more</li>
<li>Cross-training and the ability to work on a variety of projects</li>
<li>Performance-based bonuses or other incentives</li>
<li>Working with the best and brightest in the industry</li>
</ul>
<p>Apex Job Title: CWE Licensed Survey Manager</p>
<p>Req ID: 11383</p>
<p>#LI-BS1</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Annual Expected Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$140,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$180,000 USD</span></div></div></div>
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Pension Matching
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