Survey Manager

4 weeks ago

Midlands, United Kingdom Dragados S.A. UK Branch Full time

Job Summary:

The Survey Manager holds a pivotal position in the technical execution of both maritime and land-based surveys, gathering crucial data for the construction process. They maintain direct communication with the construction and engineering departments, ensuring the geometric control of the site's structures and installations. They oversee survey projects from inception to completion, crafting optimal surveys to meet project needs. They also foster relationships with stakeholders and serve as the primary point of contact with their counterpart customer representative, underscoring their indispensable role in the company's operations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Survey Management: Manage surveying activities for marine projects, ensuring accurate data collection and compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Team Leadership: Supervise and lead a team of surveyors, providing guidance, assigning tasks, and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Survey Planning: Develop survey plans and determine the scope, objectives, and methods required for accurate data collection.
  • Quality Assurance: Implement quality assurance processes to ensure accurate and consistent data collection.
  • Survey Techniques: Determine appropriate surveying techniques, such as GPS, total stations, and laser scanning.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with surveyors, engineers, contractors, and other engineering-related professionals to integrate survey data into construction processes.
  • Budget Management: Manage survey budgets, track expenses, and optimize resource allocation.
  • Safety Protocols: Enforce safety protocols and guidelines during fieldwork to ensure the well-being of surveying teams and site personnel.
  • Reporting: Prepare and present survey reports, maps, and data visualizations for client review and project documentation.

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience:

  • Strong experience in marine works
  • Fluency in software programs related to survey and bathymetry
  • Master quantities (land and marine)
  • Data analysis and statistical methods knowledge
  • Strong team management and leadership skills
  • Problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong understanding of providing survey functions for civil and construction works, including jetties.
  • Hold a qualification in Land or Engineering Surveying or any other related qualifications (Senior QS) or professional experience
  • Demonstrative experience in modern survey instrumentation, including total stations, GPS, data modelling, and manipulation through a survey CAD package.
  • CSCS
  • SSSTS or SMSTS
  • First Aid

Behavioural & Technical Competencies

  • Experience of survey management in the design and construction industry. In a similar project: marine works
  • Experience leading a Survey team
  • Proven knowledge of setting the topographic and bathymetric reference networks in design and construction projects

Dragados Values:

  • Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of project delivery.
  • Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
  • Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation, with our clients and supply chain by developing strong and long-term relationships based on mutual trust.
  • Sustainability: Commitment to sustainable development to make an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
  • Profitability: Ensuring our profitability as well as contributing value to the communities in which we operate as part of our sustainability agenda.

Dragados is committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct ( that apply to all Dragados employees.

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