Cardinal is seeking a Survey Party Chief to join our dynamic and growing team. As a Party Chief, you will lead a crew of between 1 - 3 men.Survey Party Chief should possess high integrity and excellent attention to detail. Travel will be required from time to time at different job sites, and you must be familiar with all surveying techniques used for construction surveying.

Responsibilities:

As a Survey Party Chief, you will:

Monitor projects from initiation through delivery, interfacing with clients and staff on technical matters

Work within defined project scopes and budgets

Collaborate with project team members, to include other licensed surveyors, engineers, and technical and survey staff

Review the results of field surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land features and structures

Verify the accuracy of field survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites

Ensure Safety and Health are the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes. Acting safely at all times

Participate in or conduct and document safety meetings with the crew daily. Host or assist with morning safety meetings. Bring safety and proper working procedure topics up as reminders and ensure all workers are comfortable with the tasks assigned to them by reviewing their day plan

Mentor less experienced employees and train them in proper company standards as well as ensure more experienced employees are helping to mentor green workers in proper company standards

Maintains digital files on assigned computer equipment to assure use of correct and current data files

Provide technical direction and training for the use of hardware and equipment if necessary. Troubleshoot hardware and equipment

Ability to read and interpret engineering plans and construction documents

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Operate electronic total station instrument run and adjust survey measuring instruments, including level, transit, theodolite, electronic measuring devices, and total stations with electronic data collecting capabilities

Take field notes of readings and observations

Operate and maintain vehicle and field equipment

Perform other related field and office duties as assigned

Work primarily in the field on control, and topographic surveys

Perform some office duties, including data reduction, field note reduction, and data checks

Cut and remove brush and undergrowth for a line of sight

Performs mathematical calculations and field checking of field data

Reads and understands plans and specifications

Know basic sources of measurement errors

Dig ground using a pick, shovel, and other hand tools to search for and locate survey monuments

Hold and plum rod in obtaining elevations and distances

Drive stakes to set grades on construction projects

Provide solutions to civil site design challenges

Use public records in the execution of survey fieldwork

Topographical surveys

Boundary surveys

Well connect pipelines surveys

Pipeline route staking

Establish and recover survey control, perform construction layout, obtain sewer invert and subsurface utility information and photo documentation of the project area