Survey Crew Chief

Spicer Group•Traverse City, MI

32d

About The Position

This position is for a full-time Crew Chief working out of our Saginaw, St. Johns, East Lansing, Byron Center, Bingham Farms, Standish, and/or Manistee offices or Georgia location. The Crew Chief will plan and evaluate proposed field survey projects, manage the field survey teams, prepare, process, and coordinate the required design survey work, construction staking, and other complex surveying tasks. THE COMPANY Spicer Group is a multi-disciplinary engineering, surveying, and planning company. We have offices in Saginaw, St. Johns, Manistee, Traverse City, Dundee, Byron Center, East Lansing, Standish, Bingham Farms, and Atlanta, Georgia. Spicer Group prides itself on our core values of commitment to growth, great client relationships, excellent services and solutions, maintaining a team environment, and having integrity in all we do. We are seeking a candidate who will strive to uphold these values. Spicer Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including sick, vacation, and holiday pay; fitness membership reimbursement; a 401(k)-match program; profit sharing; health, dental, and vision insurance options; and much more!

Requirements

Bachelor’s or associate degree in surveying with summer co-op experience OR 4+ years as an independent crew chief with varying experience in different aspects of surveying
Up for a challenge, work hard, and enjoy being a part of a high-performance team
Easily communicate with coworkers and clients orally and in written form
Able to travel with approximately 25% of workload being out of town
Perform physically demanding work in all types of weather

Responsibilities

Participates in pre-survey planning meetings with project managers
Gathers field survey data through use of conventional and Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Operates survey equipment to measure distance, elevations, and angles
Prepares neat & clear field notes and drawings and maintains field data records
Performs simple and complex field surveying activities, including construction layout, precision industrial layout, design survey mapping, conventional traverses, GNSS network observations and utility inventories
Support static LiDAR, mobile LiDAR, airborne LiDAR, UAV, and bathymetric projects throughout Michigan and across the United States
Performs complex surveying calculations and analyzes raw data for mathematical closure and geometric accuracy
Assumes responsibility for the company vehicle and survey equipment and oversees equipment maintenance and inventory and ensure equipment is properly maintained and calibrated