Project Manager - Survey
Apply NowCompany: LJA Engineering Inc
Location: Charleston, SC 29412
Description:
Title: Project Manager
Division: Surveying
LJA recognizes that our success depends on the quality of the people that we hire. We are currently seeking highly talented individuals that take pride in their work, function exceptionally well in team environments, and contribute to the overall success of the company. As a 100% employee-owned company, we promote an entrepreneurial spirit that helps drive the bottom line and the long-term professional and financial success of our employees. With more than 50 office locations, LJA is growing and ready for talented people to help us build our future.
Summary: Alliance Engineering and Planning is now a part of the LJA, Inc. family of companies
General Responsibilities:
Required Education:
Required Experience:
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Division: Surveying
LJA recognizes that our success depends on the quality of the people that we hire. We are currently seeking highly talented individuals that take pride in their work, function exceptionally well in team environments, and contribute to the overall success of the company. As a 100% employee-owned company, we promote an entrepreneurial spirit that helps drive the bottom line and the long-term professional and financial success of our employees. With more than 50 office locations, LJA is growing and ready for talented people to help us build our future.
Summary: Alliance Engineering and Planning is now a part of the LJA, Inc. family of companies
General Responsibilities:
- Collaborate and lead a team responsible for drafting, reviewing, and finalizing preliminary and final site plans and construction documents.
- Review project survey data utilizing the latest technology and industry software
- Analyze existing site conditions and factors to consider for development including but not limited to legal descriptions, ALTA surveys, easement documents, and condo documents.
- Provide construction-related services and guide junior team members to complete items such as permit applications, cut sheets, quantity estimates, and transmittals; organize site plans, construction plans, construction sheet set-up and assembly and other related construction documents.
- Utilize Carlson Survey and related software packages to complete assignments on time and within prescribed standards and budgets.
- As a subject matter expert and mentor, you will assist with your staff's new hire training plan, career planning, and continuous professional development at LJA
- Supervise field surveys, prepare and certify survey plats, including right of way, easement and property surveys.
- Read, interpret and prepare metes and bounds descriptions.
- Performs and interprets property research, including deeds, records of surveys, parcel maps, property descriptions as well as historical plats, plans and survey notes.
- Operates and supervises others using surveying instrumentation and software, including levels, transits, total stations, electronic distance measuring devices, Global Positioning System survey equipment and AutoCAD. Make complex survey calculations to derive data.
- Provides technical advice and supervision to daily field activities and assists in the timely completion of assigned projects.
- Works with project engineers to determine desired survey product and selects proper surveying techniques and equipment to accomplish the task.
- Will assist the Department Head in preparing proposals, estimates, presentations, employee evaluations, and the recruiting process.
- Participate in pre-survey planning meetings with project managers, resident engineers, and contractor representatives.
Required Education:
- PLS Certification
Required Experience:
- 5+ plus years of industry-related work experience
- Ability to coach, mentor, and develop a growing team
- Proficiency in CAD, Least Squares Reduction and other Survey Software
- Experience with Robotic Total Stations, GPS (including post-processing).
- Experience with scanners, drones, and other emerging technologies is desirable
- Experience on ALTA, database, large boundaries, stream, topographical, inventories, and others
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)