Project Surveyor, Aviation – Geodesy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Lead survey activities and manage project phases from initial planning and scoping through to final delivery.

• Assess project scopes, RFPs, plans, specifications, records, and client requirements to define survey boundaries, technical strategies, staffing needs, timelines, and budgets.

• Create survey methodologies tailored to project specifications, site conditions, accuracy requirements, timelines, and available technologies.

• Organize and coordinate horizontal and vertical control, GNSS/GPS observations, total station surveys, leveling, topographic, construction, boundary, right-of-way, and supplemental design surveys.

• Manage boundary and property research, including deeds, plats, easements, field evidence, and right-of-way determinations.

• Prepare and evaluate survey deliverables such as plats, legal descriptions, exhibits, reports, control documentation, basemapping, surface models, and design-ready datasets.

• Integrate traditional survey data with UAS, terrestrial lidar, aerial imagery and photogrammetry, mobile mapping, GNSS, GIS, and other geospatial datasets.

• Supervise survey data processing, adjustments, feature coding, terrain development, planimetric mapping, and CADD production.

• Coordinate survey and subsurface utility information, including utility records, field evidence, test holes, and Quality Level A and B data when included in project scope.

• Apply applicable federal, state, local, client, CADD/GIS, and professional surveying standards.

• Develop and implement project-specific QA/QC procedures and assess field observations, calculations, control networks, mapping, boundary and right-of-way determinations, surfaces, and final deliverables.

• Monitor project scope, schedule, staffing, and budget; identify risks or discrepancies and collaborate with project managers for corrective actions.

• Coordinate field activities, staffing, equipment, property access, traffic control, permitting, restricted-access requirements, and project-specific safety protocols.

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship to survey crews, technicians, CADD personnel, and geospatial staff.

• Collaborate across engineering, transportation, aviation, utilities, GIS, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and other fields.

• Communicate effectively with clients, contractors, subconsultants, property owners, utility representatives, government agencies, and internal teams.

• Support proposals, scopes of work, staffing plans, schedules, fee estimates, presentations, interviews, and business development initiatives.

• Maintain organized project documentation while promoting safety, quality, collaboration, accountability, innovation, and client service.

• Perform other assigned duties.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Associate degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology, Geography, GIS, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant professional experience will be taken into account.

• Extensive experience with Aviation surveys (18B) and a robust background in Geodesy is strongly preferred.

• LSIT or Surveyor Intern certification is preferred.

• Proven experience in leading or coordinating survey work for infrastructure, transportation, aviation, utility, land development, construction, or similar projects.

• Strong knowledge of professional land surveying practices, including boundary and topographic surveying, horizontal and vertical control, right-of-way, GNSS/GPS, total station surveying, differential leveling, aviation surveys, and construction survey support.

• Experience in establishing, processing, adjusting, and documenting survey control networks.

• Familiarity with UAS, terrestrial lidar, mobile mapping, aerial photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and high-accuracy GNSS.

• Experience in interpreting engineering plans, survey scopes, deeds, plats, easements, right-of-way plans, utility records, construction documents, and technical specifications.

• Experience in preparing and reviewing survey calculations, plats, legal descriptions, exhibits, control reports, basemaps, terrain models, and related deliverables.

• Strong understanding of survey QA/QC principles and relevant surveying, mapping, CADD, and GIS standards.

• Ability to manage scopes, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, project changes, and multiple concurrent assignments.

• Strong technical judgment, organizational skills, and both written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capability to collaborate across disciplines and provide technical direction and mentorship to junior staff.

• Commitment to professional ethics, quality, safety, client service, and adherence to applicable surveying laws and standards.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and widely used project collaboration tools.

• Willingness to travel, including occasional overnight stays.

• Must possess work authorization in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

• Ability to perform prolonged computer and office work and occasionally visit active survey, roadway, aviation, infrastructure, utility, and construction sites.

• Ability to safely work around active construction or transportation environments using required PPE.

• Ability to traverse uneven terrain and occasionally reach, bend, climb, balance, and lift or move project equipment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).

• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.

• Flexible paid time off/vacation.

• Career development and learning opportunities.

• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance.

• Paid sick time.

• Retirement plan.

• Fitness reimbursement.

• Pet insurance.

• Identity protection.

• Technology stipend.

• Employee assistance program.