Project Surveyor

Westwood Professional Services • Overland Park, KS

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About The Position

Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking a Project Surveyor to join our team. This role is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, quality assurance/quality control, and completion of survey projects within Westwood’s Renewables Division. The Project Surveyor will serve as a subject matter expert for survey-related activities, including construction staking, topographic surveying, platting, legal description writing, boundary analysis, exhibit preparation, and legal principles. This position involves working closely with the Project Manager to define project tasks, schedule, resource requirements, budget, scope, and fee. The role also requires ensuring compliance with company standards, policies, and procedures, conducting team meetings, staying current on industry trends and technology, and providing guidance and mentoring to project team staff. A key aspect of this role is ensuring quality control and quality assurance for all survey activities and leading by example with solid judgment, good values, trust, honesty, openness, and professionalism.

Requirements

• A professional survey license with multi-state licensure is preferred.
• Four-year degree preferred and/or 10-plus years of experience in a consulting business.
• Effective verbal and written communication is necessary and independent judgment is essential.
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills.
• Handle multiple priorities and projects well.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and implementation of projects and monitors the operational effectiveness throughout.
• Serves as subject matter expert for survey related activities such as construction staking, topographic surveying, platting, legal description writing, boundary analysis, exhibit preparation, and legal principles.
• Works with the Project Manager to define project tasks, schedule and resource requirements.
• Works with Project Manager to evaluate project budget, scope, and fee.
• Complies with and helps the enforcement of company standards, policies, and procedures.
• Conduct team meetings with project team to evaluate and coordinate the project.
• Stays current on service-specific trends, technology, software, hardware, and equipment.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and mentoring to project team staff as needed.
• Responsible for quality control and quality assurance related to the survey activities on each project.
• Ensures division, regional, and company policies and practices are consistently followed within the survey service.
• Lead by example – display solid judgment, good values, trust, honesty, openness, and professionalism.

Benefits

• Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
• We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior