About the Role: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements
Shape the Ground Beneath Every Great Road
Ever looked at a freshly paved highway and wondered who made sure it landed exactly where it should? That's the surveyor's quiet magic — and we're looking for someone who takes real pride in it. We're hiring a Surveyor to own setting out, levels, and as-built accuracy across active roads and infrastructure projects. If you like the idea of your measurements being the difference between a smooth build and a costly redo, keep reading — this one's for you.
About Us
We're a site-driven contractor with a reputation built on getting the details right the first time. Our teams work on roads and infrastructure that people actually use every day, and we treat that responsibility seriously — without treating each other like strangers. Field crews and engineers here talk constantly, not just at handover, which means survey issues get sorted before they become site problems. Friday report reviews are a bit of a ritual around here, and yes, there's usually coffee involved.
What You'll Be Doing
- Set out works from drawings and control points, and keep the levels honest — profiles and cross sections included.
- Run quantity checks so the numbers on paper match what's actually on the ground.
- Prepare as-built drawings that reflect reality, not wishful thinking.
- Calibrate and care for survey instruments — Total Station, Auto Level, GPS/GNSS — because a drifting instrument drifts the whole job.
- Put together daily and weekly reports that engineers can actually act on.
- Coordinate closely with site engineers and the consultant, flagging discrepancies early rather than late.
- Support AutoCAD and Civil 3D work as drawings evolve on site.
What You'll Bring
Must-haves:
- Bachelor's degree in Surveying.
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience on roads and infrastructure projects.
- Solid command of Total Station, Auto Level, and GPS/GNSS.
- Working proficiency in AutoCAD and Civil 3D.
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience coordinating directly with consultants on live projects.
- A habit of double-checking control points before the crew arrives — we notice that kind of thing.
Not sure you tick every box? We'd still love to hear from you.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Competitive salary with clear room to grow as projects scale.
- Real responsibility from day one — your work shapes the build, not just the paperwork.
- A field team that respects survey as a discipline, not an afterthought.
- Support for continued learning, including software and instrument training.
- Site-based role with a team culture that keeps things human.
If you want your measurements to matter and your voice to be heard on site, this is the kind of role where you'll feel it.
Common Interview Questions and Tips
To help you prepare and feel confident, here are some questions you might encounter during the interview process for this role.
- Walk me through how you'd set out a road alignment from drawings and control points on a live site — what's your process from the first control check to the final stakeout?
- You notice the levels on a cross section don't match what your Total Station is telling you. How do you work out which one's wrong before it becomes a problem for the crew?
- How do you approach quantity checks so the paper numbers and the ground truth actually line up? Any habits or checks you swear by?
- Tell me about your experience with AutoCAD and Civil 3D on site — what kind of drawing work have you handled as designs evolved mid-project?
- What's your routine for calibrating and maintaining instruments like Total Station, Auto Level, and GPS/GNSS? Has an instrument ever let you down on site, and how did you catch it?
- Describe a time you spotted a discrepancy between the drawings and site conditions. How early did you flag it, and how did you handle the conversation with the engineer or consultant?
- Imagine the crew is ready to start and you haven't yet double-checked the control points. What do you do — and how do you manage the pressure to just get going?
- Tell me about a project where an as-built drawing had to reflect something quite different from the original design. How did you make sure the as-built told the real story?
- How do you decide what goes into a daily or weekly report so engineers can actually act on it rather than skim it?
- We mentioned Friday report reviews are a bit of a ritual here. How do you feel about regular, structured check-ins with engineers and field crews?
- Describe a time you had to push back on someone more senior because the survey data didn't support what they wanted to do.
- What draws you to roads and infrastructure work specifically, rather than other types of surveying?
- How do you like to communicate with field crews and engineers day to day — and what does a team