Route Surveyor

Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering engineering solutions.

Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms, and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.

We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.

We believe that being successful is a choice. We choose to be successful.

We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.

Throughout 2023, OCU Group has been experiencing a sustained period of growth and expansion.

**About the job**

The Route Surveyor (Quotation Surveys) plays a crucial role in safeguarding the quality of our products and services through thorough and objective Site Surveying, quantifying and reporting.

By conducting Surveying activities, and producing reports the Route Surveyor will assist the Project estimating team in collating pricing information and the production of quotations to the DNO for electrical and civils schemes on the DNO Network.

The project types range from small to large EHV cabling, including substation construction to new energy low carbon build projects.

**Person specification**:

- Follow and promote the company’s health and safety policies.
- Use initiative, be self-motivated and able to work without supervision. Good interpretative skills.
- Ability to prioritise various and changing tasks.
- Work to deadlines and communicate early when this is not feasible. Well organised. Flexible.
- Good communicator and a team player.
- Accuracy, literacy and numeracy abilities.

**What do you need to be successful?**
- Previous experience with utility networks
- Surveying / Civil Engineering background, desirable particularly in the Electricity Networks industry.
- Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PP.
- Full UK Driving licence.

**Desirable**:

- CSCS/SMSTS / SSSTS
- Membership of a professional body (RICS/CICES)
- AutoCAD 2D & 3D
- Experienced in AutoCAD Map3D / Civil 3D / GIS
- First Aid

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.