Licensed Survey Manager

CWE, an Apex Company, is seeking an experienced Licensed Surveyor Manager to join our team in our Roseville, California office.  As a California Registered Professional Land Surveyor, you will take leadership on delivering our survey projects by taking a hands-on approach, working with teammates and clients, and optimizing internal processes and standards.  This role is ideal for a candidate with strong technical, management, and interpersonal skills who thrives on delivering precise, high-quality results.  The PLS will oversee fieldwork, documentation, deliverables, client relations, and ensure that projects adhere to the firm's Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) standards.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Responsible for leading and supervising the Roseville office surveyors and survey technicians as they develop and create solutions to technical problems and overseeing work production and quality control.
• Provide day to day assignments and technical guidance to survey staff.
• Under limited supervision, manage a variety of surveying service functions that could include drafting, survey support, field survey, document control or other surveying support activities.
• Ensure the timely, thorough, and accurate completion of all survey services projects.
• Ensure survey deliverables and documentation packages are complete.
• Maintain project number assignments and customer documentation.
• Responsible for hiring, training, supervising, and mentoring employees; project budgeting, project scheduling; and designing administrative procedures for the survey department.
• Write performance reviews and solve internal issues.
• As needed, and not limited to, provide party chief services on various field surveying duties, including boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA Surveys, and construction staking. Other activities will include in-office survey and mapping calculations and plans, and preparation of construction staking cut sheets.
• Perform survey mapping and survey field work, ensuring that high quality products are produced within the schedule that our clients require. Use the firm's Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) checklists for survey deliverables.
• Performance measures for this role include but are not limited to: maintaining a minimum 70% utilization rate, staying within the allotted budgets for tasks, and maintaining quality control. These performance measures will be analyzed and revisited periodically and be a direct indicator of your performance.  Your role will grow over time to include harvesting and winning new work from new and existing clients.
• Write scope and approach narratives for proposals and develop cost/fee estimates for work.
• Keep abreast of the state-of-the-art survey techniques. 
• Maintain good relationships with team members, sub-consultants, vendors, and clients.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and sub-consultants in a timely and clear fashion.
• Be the liaison with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Developing new business relationships to broaden the firm's client base.
• Travel to conduct field visits, survey activities, and consult with clients and agencies.

Required Competencies and Qualifications:

• California Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license. 
• 12+ years of experience in Surveying, Civil Engineering or related field(s).
• Demonstrated leadership experience overseeing and guiding office surveyors and survey technicians.
• Expertise in survey equipment use, configuration, troubleshooting, procurement, repair (e.g. theodolite, total station, drones, GPS/GNSS, etc..), in the field and in the office.
• Expertise in Survey software, including but not limited to GIS/GPS, aerial and non-aerial cartography, data collectors, etc.
• Proficient knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D software, PDF software, such as Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat, etc., and in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, etc.).
• Abilities to grasp and become proficient in new software and technologies
• Ability to pay attention to detail with a high level of accuracy.
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic.
• Good interpersonal abilities for working in a team environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and take direction.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to self-motivate and work productively without supervision.
• Proactive approach/self-starter/takes initiative
• Ability to kneel, climb, and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Valid California driver’s license and insurable driving record

Desired Competencies and Qualifications:

• Background in surveying for complex properties and right-of-way issues.
• Knowledge of land geographic information systems (GIS) and boundary law.
• Familiarity with surveying for subdivisions, planned unit developments (PUD), and parcel maps.
• High attention to detail, flexibility, and adaptability to work in varying conditions.

Why you'll love working for us:

• Company-subsidized medical and dental
• Company-paid life, short- and long-term disability
• 401k match, tuition assistance, and more
• Cross-training and the ability to work on a variety of projects
• Performance-based bonuses or other incentives
• Working with the best and brightest in the industry

Apex Job Title: CWE Licensed Survey Manager

Req ID: 11383

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