Job Description

About the role
Support the Senior Engineering Surveyor/Engineering Survey Manager in the delivery of all survey requirements for the project.
Tasks include engineering control, topographic survey, engineering surveying and setting out. Provide the site team with construction information, assist in QA/QC,
and support H&S (Health & Safety) and sustainability initiatives within the survey department
What you'll be doing
Core
o Supervise and mentor survey teams.
o Produce deliverables to strict deadlines in accordance with the site programme.
o Collecting survey field data, processing, and issuing to clients or stakeholders in the agreed formats.
o Ensuring all site-specific tolerances are met in any survey related operations.
o Ensuring the safe and secure storage of all historical survey data relating to the project.
Health Safety and Environment
o Responsible for the safe working of themselves, their team and others whilst carrying out any survey related activities.
o Hazard identification and raising observation cards.
o Provide daily site safety briefings to the survey team, SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) essential.
o Creating TBS (Task Briefing Sheets).
Engineering Control
o Carry out checks on survey equipment in line with the company Business management System.
o Carry out survey QA on design deliverables prior to construction release.
o Provide site engineers with information from design deliverables (schedules, digital models, and drawings).
o Carry out independent surveys checks at key stages in the construction process.
Quality
o Complete QA (Quality Assurance) records as required.
o Produce of as-built drawings from survey data in survey specific software.
o Comply with hold point checks in accordance with the ITP (Inspection and Test Plan) procedure. Formally comprise and issue results to all relevant stakeholders.
Commercial
o The management and collation of required survey records to aid the commercial management of the project.
o Maintain inventory of survey equipment and consumables
Advise on survey equipment procurement
Who we're looking for
o Must be keen to learn and develop within the Survey Team
o Possess effective communication and negotiation skills.
o Ability in IT (Information Technology) applications
o Build effective working relationships with the wider project team.
o Knowledge of settlement monitoring systems, methods, and technologies.
o Knowledge of geodetic requirements associated with project requirements.
o Knowledge of latest survey equipment, software, and technologies
o Experience in establishing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) networks.
o Enrol in membership of professional institution as identified with line manager.
o Attend relevant and specific courses as identified with line manager.
During this role you will be required to obtain an SSSTS qualification, and you will be a Tech Member of the CinstCES (working towards full member)
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much morexe2x80xa6
About us
Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit:
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