Senior Surveyor / Supervisor (Prince George, Bc)

WSP Transportation division is currently seeking a Senior Surveyor to support our Northern Operations as part of our province-wide team. This position requires taking on a lead role on projects and supervising junior staff. Work is mainly centered on Highways Design and Construction services. Reporting to the Provincial Survey Manager, this position is responsible for providing quality management, technical support, and survey services to numerous projects. This position is suitable to candidates who enjoy a balance of field and office work and offers flexibility in workplace, schedule and holidays. This position is suitable to a person looking to be part of a larger team with a great reputation and looking for a career vs a job.

Relocation to Prince George, BC is required, and will be provided. Candidates currently residing anywhere in Canada are encouraged to apply.

A day in the life…

• Providing survey and technical support to our Design teams collecting data, providing survey base for design including mapping utilities, legal composites, preliminary designs, quantities, drafting and plotting
• Setting control utilizing static GPS GPS/GNSS and other methods
• Performing Quality Control / Quality Assurance reviews on work done by coworkers including staff and independent contractors
• Applying good quality management practices
• Acting as Northern BC regional survey lead
• Estimating prospective work
• Topographic / Detail Surveys utilizing RTK GNSS and Robotic Instruments
• Supervising staff
• Terrestrial Scanning and Processing
• Providing survey and technical support to our Construction Supervision teams including deciphering plans, producing grade files, grade stakeout, grade checking, quality assurance, field fit designs and measuring / generating construction quantities
• Processing field to finish using Civil 3D, TBC, and other software
• Communicating with clients
• Drone Mapping with Lidar and Photogrammetry and processing

What You'll Bring To WSP…

• Willingness to travel for up to two weeks at a time
• Experience data processing and drafting using Civil 3D
• 10 + Years Industry experience with preference to Highways and Transportation experience
• Experience with supervising other staff
• Technical Diploma in Survey, Geomatics or Civil
• Experience with estimating work and client communications
• Experience data processing using Trimble Business Center
• Field experience with GNSS, Robotic Total Stations, Scanners, Drones and Data Collectors with an emphasis on construction

About Us

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We value our people and our reputation
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe and the growing list of our clients including vaccination status as part of their mandated health and safety requirements to work with them, you will be required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to WSP as a condition of employment. You may also be required to undergo additional immunization to maintain a fully vaccinated status against COVID-19 whenever local Public Health Authorities recommend additional immunization.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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