Surveying Technician

This position is full-time in person.

Gateway Engineers is a multi-million-dollar full-service civil engineering consulting firm with locations in Pittsburgh, PA, Butler, PA, and Raleigh, NC. Our mission is to help our clients reach a higher level of success through knowledge, experience, and responsiveness. We focus intently on the development of all employees, both professionally and personally, where all we expect you to do is grow. We offer many programs and amenities, including our performance-based compensation program, our Act Well/Eat Well/Think Well mindset, Professional Development opportunities, an open office environment, and many more

What we offer:

• No cost health insurance
• Dental and vision insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
• Quarterly performance bonuses
• PTO and 8 paid holidays
• 401(k) match & 401(k) Roth and Profit Sharing
• Student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement
• Company paid professional society memberships & professional licensure registration fees
• Employee referral program

The ideal Survey Technician candidate will have the following experience:

• Preparing and revising construction stakeout drawings and point files from current civil, architectural, structural, and utility plans, including building layouts, grid lines, foundations, roads, curbs, utilities, structures, and site improvements.
• Reviewing project plans, shop drawings specifications, revisions, and request-for-information (RFI) responses; comparing drawing information, identifying discrepancies, and coordinating questions or required clarifications with Project Managers and field crews.
• Processing, adjusting, and reviewing field survey data, including GPS, VRS, and other field downloads; converting coordinates and data between applicable datums and coordinate systems; and using Trimble Business Center (TBC), and related surveying software as appropriate.
• Researching, calculating, adjusting, and maintaining survey control, including horizontal and vertical control, benchmarks, grid control, baselines, and site control; preparing control drawings, coordinate files, PDF plots, and text files for field use.
• Preparing, checking, and revising construction stakeout information for field crews, including point locations, offsets, elevations, grades, cut sheets, and digital files; plotting and distributing stakeout drawings and updates.
• Reviewing completed stakeout and field layout information for accuracy by checking field notes, level data, coordinates, elevations, grades, and measured locations against the project plans and established survey control.
• Preparing and updating as-staked and as-built drawings, plans, schedules, and cut sheets documenting installed or located features, including buildings, foundations, anchor bolts, utilities, storm structures, roadways, curbs, equipment, piping, and other site or structural components.
• Performing survey calculations and preparing elevations, grades, slopes, cross-sections, offsets, clearances, and layout information to support construction activities and project requirements.
• Reviewing existing site conditions and survey information, including topographic data, utilities, property lines, existing structures, pavement, and other located features; preparing or updating CAD drawings to communicate findings.
• Preparing survey information for property corners, property searches, easements, rights-of-way, limits of disturbance, wetlands, erosion and sediment control features, and other site constraints as directed.
• Preparing and maintaining monitoring plans, schedules, spreadsheets, and drawings; processing monitoring observations and documenting changes in measured locations or elevations.
• Coordinating with field crews, Project Managers, engineers, and other project personnel to review survey control, stakeout requests, field procedures, project changes, and as-built results; communicating updates and distributing accurate survey files and drawings.
• Occasionally visiting project sites to verify existing conditions, review layout or survey control, and assist with resolving discrepancies between field information and project drawings.
• Organizing and maintaining field downloads, survey data, CAD files, drawings, calculations, and other project documentation in accordance with project procedures and established file-management practices.
• Knowledge of field surveying equipment and applicability to different survey task and field procedures

This opportunity requires:

Education

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a survey related field

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience in surveying and construction stakeout

License

• Not required