Survey Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION – SURVEY PROJECT MANAGER

Oversees all surveying operations including budgeting, scheduling, directing subordinates, prioritizing multiple projects and deadlines, and communication with management staff.

• Coordinates, prioritizes, and distributes workload within the survey department to ensure the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff to meet deadlines.
• Identifies, recommends, practices, and develops ways for staff to be productive and efficient.
• Reviews and approves staff timesheets.
• Advises and assists staff with company policy, process, and methods.
• Attends staff meeting for coordination and scheduling of work with all departments.
• Prepares proposals on projects with subsequent project management responsibilities.
• Understands project's scope of work and communicates this scope to support staff.
• Monitors and maintains project budgets & productivity.
• Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature surveying judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
• Develops standards and guidelines.
• Plans and implements improvements for the surveying department (long term and short term).
• Acknowledges and implements appropriate suggestions from support staff.
• Participates in the selection, training, and development of the new surveyors.
• Maintains records of performance for survey personnel and provides written and oral reports.
• Provides training opportunities to ensure staff maintains current in knowledge with regards to industry and company standards.
• Oversees and performs surveying assignments within company and industry standards using a computer as an aid to drafting and document deliverables.
• Oversees and prepares accurate, complete, and value-added work products and perform complex survey computations.
• Ensures timely document delivery by completing assigned tasks on or ahead of schedule and understands how activity being performed relates to overall project status.
• Oversees construction-staking calculations.
• Coordinates construction staking schedule with general contractor and maintains positive client relationships.
• Analyzes and reviews work of survey crews.
• Develops and enforces field codes and stringing (field to office data collection).
• Oversees preparation of cut sheets for field crews.
• Interpret design plans for construction staking calculations, identifies plan discrepancies and conflicts, and coordinates with engineering staff to ensure proper interpretation.
• Understand tolerances and accuracy as they relate to project needs.
• Understands and maintains computer and hard copy filing system.
• Analyzes title reports and legal descriptions.
• Perform boundary analysis and resolution
• Prepares plats and legal descriptions.
• Prepare record boundary and easement maps.
• Prepare Tentative Maps, Parcel Maps, Final Maps, Record of Survey and ALTA Maps.
• Works with engineering department to identify proposed easements.
• Reviews all work for completeness and accuracy.
• Deals directly with map checker to resolve project mapping issues.
• Stamps and signs maps and legal descriptions.
• Assists in setting up and maintaining Survey Standards.
• Maintains the look and consistency of drawings.
• Provides accurate account of time spent on projects with descriptions for each time entry.
• Maintains neat and orderly work area, which will allow access to project information to other team members.
• Performs other duties as assigned.