HuittZollars

Survey Manager RPLS

HuittZollars$88K — $105K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) certification required.
  • 10+ years of land surveying experience, including 5+ years in project management.
  • Experience in boundary, topographic, and construction surveying.
  • Proven business development skills.
  • Familiarity with MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or Trimble Access is advantageous.
  • Strong relationship-building skills and marketing acumen for surveying services.
  • Commitment to fostering a positive team culture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage multiple survey projects, overseeing scheduling, staffing, and budgeting.
  • Develop detailed scopes of services and project budgets for various initiatives.
  • Ensure projects meet technical quality, timelines, and profitability goals.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for clients to build and maintain relationships.
  • Negotiate project scope and fees with clients, ensuring timely billing and collections.
  • Promote surveying services and participate in business development efforts.
  • Prepare various documents including proposals, legal descriptions, and topographic surveys.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
  • Paid vacation and sick leave, along with 8 observed holidays.
  • Tuition reimbursement and support for professional membership fees.
  • Retirement benefits through a 401(k) plan and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
  • Opportunities for team-building events and employee morale activities.
Full Job Description
Survey Manager RPLS

Role Description: Huitt-Zollars has a great full-time opportunity for a Survey Manager/RPLS in our El Paso, Texas office. This role will lead and manage the El Paso survey department, including survey staff, project delivery, scheduling, and project budgets. The Survey Manager/RPLS will also collaborate with and support other Huitt-Zollars offices and project teams, providing surveying expertise and additional project capacity as workload and project needs require.

Location: El Paso, Texas

Employment Type: 40 FT Hours
Compensation Type: Salary
Registration(s): Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) registration required

Duties:
  • Manage several survey projects simultaneously which include scheduling, staffing and budgets.
  • Prepare scope of services and detailed project budget for multiple projects.
  • Ensure technical quality, scheduling, and profitability of projects.
  • Act as primary client contact and build relationships with clients.
  • Negotiate scope and fees of projects with clients and follow up on billing/collections.
  • Conduct marketing of surveying and engineering services and business development to obtain additional survey projects.
  • Prepare proposals, cost estimates, plats, legal descriptions, topographic surveys, right of way maps, ALTA, etc.
  • Ensure QA and QC review is complete.
  • Manage survey staff and mentor them to develop professionally.

Qualifications:
  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
  • Minimum 10 years of professional land surveying experience, including at least 5 years managing survey projects and survey staff.
  • Office production experience including boundary, topographic and construction surveying.
  • Business development experience.
  • Knowledge in MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or Trimble Access, is a plus.
  • Passion for building client relationships, marketing surveying, and engineering services.
  • Strong desire to build a positive culture among staff.

Project Manager (PM) Role Annual Performance Goals & Expectations:
  • Having a deep understanding of how your work and contributions as a co-owner add to Huitt-Zollars' mission and core values.
  • Maintaining expected Effective Labor Multiplier (ELM) on sum of all associated projects.
  • Consistently upholds business processes including timely monthly A/R's, invoicing, timekeeping, resource forecasting, percent completes, etc.
  • Achieves personal sales goal.
  • Achieves stated target personal utilization goal for PM.
  • Understands, follows and ensures quality control measures and risk management measures are being applied and adhered to projects and daily operations.

This position is also required to adhere to Huitt-Zollars' Core Value Competencies.

Benefits & Perks:
  • Health insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
  • Dental insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
  • Vision insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
  • MDLive Telehealth
  • Employer-Paid Short- & Long-Term disability
  • 8 Paid Holidays
  • Employee Morale/Teambuilding events and activities
  • Paid Vacation/Annual Leave
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Professional Societies and Registrations Fee Reimbursements
  • Term Life / AD&D insurance
  • Cancer and Specified Disease insurance
  • Two retirement plans: 401(k) and an ESOP
  • Work for an Employee-Owned firm

Physical Requirements:
  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, type/key-in data
  • May lift and carry up to 50 pounds, hike up and down steep slopes carrying up to 50 pounds of survey equipment
  • The employee must be able to concentrate on details, work under deadline pressures, apply sound logic and judgment, and prioritize tasks and responsibilities
  • Employee may be asked to walk on uneven terrain
  • May work in extreme weather conditions
  • Bend, squat, dig monument holes, pound in stakes and rebar monuments
  • Carry and use brush cutting equipment
  • May drive survey vehicle

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Huitt-Zollars in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. Currently, Huitt-Zollars does not sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions.

Huitt-Zollars does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters without a previously signed third-party agreement. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to any Huitt-Zollars hiring manager or employee will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency submitting the unsolicited resume. Huitt-Zollars will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Human Resources team and without an active, fully executed service agreement.

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About HuittZollars

Huitt-Zollars is an architecture and engineering firm that provides design and planning services for various types of projects, including transportation, healthcare, and commercial buildings. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Huitt-Zollars has offices in various locations across the United States, including California, Colorado, and New Mexico. The company has a team of over 1,000 professionals who are dedicated to providing high-quality services to clients.
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