Regional Survey Manager
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- Vancouver, BC
- $131,602-178,049 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead, develop, and manage all survey operations across the Western Canada region, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and project delivery standards.
- Establish regional surveying strategies, workflows, and best practices to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and consistency across multiple project sites.
- Partner with regional construction leadership to forecast survey resource needs, resolve complex technical challenges, and optimize layout strategies for major civil and infrastructure projects.
- Oversee advanced survey methodologies, including total station, GPS, and specialized instrumentation setup, while guiding teams on calibration, EDM parameters, prism constants, and QA/QC standards.
- Validate and consolidate survey data across multiple projects, ensuring accuracy in drawings, charts, and construction documentation.
- Provide expert-level application of geodesy, UTM grid systems, and conversions to local ground coordinate systems to ensure correct integration with engineering and design models.
- Direct the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of surveying instruments, layout software, and data management tools across regional teams.
- Enforce companywide surveying standards, including data governance, file structure, documentation protocols, and reporting frameworks.
- Champion safety through adherence to corporate safety policies, including hazard assessments, eCompliance reporting, and safe field procedures.
- Lead regional audit and QA/QC programs to ensure accuracy of layout, as-built documentation, and field measurements.
- Manage, mentor, and support survey supervisors and field crews across Western Canada, ensuring skill development, succession planning, and high performance.
- Oversee regional workload planning, crew deployment, and performance evaluations.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and training for new survey team members.
- Provide timely reporting and insights to project directors, managers, and regional leaders, including progress metrics, risk identification, and scope adjustment recommendations.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, construction, and project management teams to ensure survey requirements are proactively addressed and accurately delivered.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in construction surveying for major civil and infrastructure projects.
- Proven regional or multi-project leadership experience, supervising survey teams or managing surveying operations at scale.
- Expert ability to interpret and work from highly complex civil, structural, and architectural drawings.
- Advanced technical proficiency with total stations, GNSS/GPS systems, layout and modeling software, and digital survey data management.
- Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and maintain consistent standards across dispersed teams.
- Experience supporting marine GPS, machine control, or specialized geospatial applications (an asset).
- Post-secondary education in Geomatics, Geoscience, Engineering Technology, or a related field (an asset).
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Flexibility to travel across Western Canada and adapt hours based on project needs.
- RRSP with up to 5% employer matching
- Hybrid work model for corporate roles
- Employee stock ownership program
- Career growth through real development opportunities
- Transit pass reimbursement - get to work for free
- Minimum 4 weeks of vacation from day one