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As the Senior Land Surveyor, you will perform land boundary surveys, delineating routes, areas, and sites for company purchases or studies.  These surveys involve the analysis of record information and collected field data with the application of special knowledge of mathematics, mapping, abstracting and related elements of law.

Specifically, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Provide project management for multiple large-scale projects and larger distribution programs without supervision.

• Serve as a company subject matter expert on one of the following disciplines: Design & Construction Surveying, Geodetic Surveying, Geomatics Technology, GIS, Route Surveying or Project Management.

• Have an advanced understanding of property rights, land rights, acquisition, and property transactions.

• Consult with service area manager, service consultants, developers, surveyors, engineers, attorneys and customers to resolve land and easement related issues.

• Engage and coordinate with Contractors and Consultants to ensures the scope, quality and consistency of work.

• Coordinate and communicate with survey & right-of-way team members to deliver and complete assigned work.

• Assign and route work for Company crews and contractors according to work priorities.

• Direct the field activities of a survey field party to ensure safe and satisfactory job completion.

• An active contributor to the development of field crew members and office staff.

• Provide mentoring and guidance to field crew members and office staff in the compliance and implementation of business and technical process.  

• Responsible for managing the completion and delivery of concurrent work orders and deliverables.

• Interpret deeds, maps, field notes easement documents and provides guidance and direction on technically complex issues.

• Prepare, certify final maps, sketches, documents and field notes.

• Review and approve field and office work of junior staff as applicable.

• Review, approve and certify deliverables prepared by Survey Technicians, Associate Surveyors & Surveyors.

• Lead the preparation and presentation of technical and business documents.

• Consult and support management on technical matters related to surveying & right-of-way.

• Lead initiatives and projects to improve Department business and technical processes.

• Assist in the performance evaluation for assigned staff.

• Assist in the preparation of vacation schedules and workload and resource plans.

• Assist in the preparation of project and operating budgets as applicable.