Apex

Licensed Survey Manager

Apex$140K — $180K *
Real Estate & Construction
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • California Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license
  • 12+ years of experience in Surveying, Civil Engineering, or related field
  • Leadership experience overseeing office surveyors and technicians
  • Expertise in the use and maintenance of survey equipment (e.g., theodolite, total station, drones)
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS, and Microsoft Office software
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and supervise survey teams, ensuring quality and productivity
  • Assign daily tasks and provide technical guidance to staff
  • Manage various surveying functions, including fieldwork and documentation
  • Ensure timely and accurate completion of survey projects
  • Oversee project documentation and deliverables
  • Handle hiring, training, and performance reviews of staff
  • Foster client relationships and develop new business opportunities

Benefits

  • Company-subsidized medical and dental insurance
  • Company-paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k match and tuition assistance
  • Performance-based bonuses or incentives
  • Cross-training opportunities on diverse projects
  • Collaborative environment with top industry professionals
Full Job Description
CWE, an Apex Company, is seeking an experienced Licensed Surveyor Manager to join our team in ourRoseville, 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: 11750

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Annual Expected Pay Range

$140,000-$180,000 USD

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