Associate Land Surveyor

NV5•Palm Desert, CA

33d•Onsite

About The Position

Join our team in beautiful Palm Desert, California, where we're seeking an experienced Associate Land Surveyor to play a key leadership role within our surveying operations. This is a full-time, 100% in-office position offering the opportunity to work closely with our Survey Manager on a diverse portfolio of projects. In this role, you will be responsible for providing professional oversight and review of survey work products, coordinating office and field survey activities, and helping ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget. You'll serve as a technical resource to the team while supporting the efficient execution of daily operations. If you're a motivated surveying professional looking for an opportunity to take on a leadership role and make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!

Requirements

LSIT/FE required
Must be able to work in the office 100% in Palm Desert, CA
3-5 years of surveying and mapping experience is required
3+ years of project management experience preferred
Experience in the use of lidar scanning (terrestrial, mobile, aerial) data registration/extraction
Must possess good interpersonal skills and effective written and oral communication skills
Right-of-way mapping and parcel plat drafting.
Must be proficient in the use of total stations, GPS receivers, and data collectors, and GPS reduction software.
Experience in Civil3D with demonstrated survey drafting skills required; excellent Civil3D skills a plus
Proficiency in Trimble Business Center, StarNet, or similar survey processing software.
Ability to read and understand survey drawings, plans & specifications.
Knowledge of principles of monumentation, staking, and marking.
Must be proficient with MS Word and Excel.

Nice To Haves

Professional Land Surveyor registration certification is desired.
UAV / UAS operation, data acquisition, and data reduction experience a plus.
Hydrographic surveying experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide professional & technical oversight and guidance
Perform project research, logistics, and management; review plats, and prepare legal descriptions.
Adhere to the company’s policies, safety plan, and the project safety plan. Perform quality control checks on each project, including computations, field book formats, and and content.
Supervise project field crew(s) and/or serve as field crew chief
Work on control, boundary, subdivision, topographic, and design surveys, ALTA /NSPS standards, aerial mapping surveys, and may also perform hydrographic surveying.
Accurately run and adjust survey measuring instruments, including digital levels, GPS equipment, and total stations with electronic data-collecting capabilities.
Understand and identify basic sources of measurement errors.
Perform mathematical calculations and check field data.
Perform data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks, and staking.
Computations using survey programs and Civil3D.
Perform other duties as assigned