At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and mentor a dynamic surveying team while managing exciting construction projects.
- Company: Established Australian surveying business known for quality and expertise.
- Benefits: Opportunity to influence team performance and career growth in a supportive environment.
- Other info: Join a growing team focused on quality and client service.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a hands-on leadership role with diverse projects.
- Qualifications: Strong surveying knowledge, leadership skills, and experience in construction.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 $ per year.
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Survey Manager or Senior Surveyor ready to step into leadership with an established and growing Australian surveying business.
Our client provides specialist surveying services across major construction, infrastructure and development projects.
With a strong reputation for quality, technical expertise and client service, the business has an established team of surveying professionals and continues to grow its project portfolio.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll manage and develop the Canberra survey team while remaining actively involved onsite, working alongside your team and clients.
The Role
Reporting to senior operations management, you will take ownership of the performance, development and deployment of the Canberra surveying team.
- Lead, coach and mentor a team of surveyors
- Allocate surveyors across projects to maximise productivity and delivery
- Remain hands-on with setout, surveying and onsite QA
- Conduct quality checks and project audits
- Manage workflow and forecast future resource requirements
- Build strong relationships with clients and assist with technical queries
- Monitor team performance, KPIs, overtime and timesheets
- Support surveyor health, safety and wellbeing
- Assist with project planning, pricing and revenue forecasting
- Improve systems, procedures and surveying workflows
- Work closely with operations and recruitment to support continued team growth
About You
You'll combine strong technical surveying knowledge with the leadership skills to develop people, solve problems and maintain high standards across projects.
- Strong construction and engineering surveying experience
- Previous leadership, team management or senior surveying experience
- Strong knowledge of construction drawings
- Experience with Total Stations, GPS and CAD/surveying software
- Strong knowledge of DTMs and alignments
- Experience with setout, monitoring and scan processing
- High-rise and/or RMS/Tf NSW experience highly regarded
- Project auditing, pricing and project management experience
- Strong client and stakeholder management skills
- Diploma in Surveying or higher
- Current White Card and driver's licence
- What's On Offer
- Work across a diverse pipeline of construction and infrastructure projects
- Join an established Australian surveying business with a strong focus on quality
- Genuine opportunity to influence team performance, processes and future growth
If you're an experienced Survey Manager, Lead Surveyor or Senior Surveyor looking for your next career move in Canberra, we'd like to hear from you.
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