Land Surveyor
Core
Carrying out and verifying surveying activities for large-scale infrastructure development, ensuring construction works align with approved drawings and specifications.
Role type
Land Surveyor (Infrastructure)
Builds
Roads, utilities, structures, landscaping, and associated infrastructure works.
Domain
Civil Engineering / Infrastructure Construction
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Setting-out, coordinate verification, level checks, instrument calibration, QA/QC compliance, field book maintenance, discrepancy reporting, as-built surveying, quantity verification.
Preferred skills
Authority inspection support, snagging, final surveys, project handover activities.
Technologies
Total stations, GPS/GNSS, levels, theodolites, surveying software (implied by context of instruments and coordinates).
Responsibilities
Establish and maintain project survey control points and benchmarks. Review IFC/shop drawings and verify setting-out information. Perform setting-out for roads, utilities, pipelines, and structures. Verify horizontal/vertical alignments, levels, gradients, and slopes. Check excavation and formation levels. Conduct independent survey checks of contractor's works. Coordinate with engineers, inspectors, and contractors. Report discrepancies between drawings and site conditions. Maintain accurate survey records and field books. Verify quantities for progress assessment. Conduct surveys for existing utilities and construction constraints. Review and verify as-built surveys. Support authority inspections and project handover. Ensure instruments are calibrated and compliant with QA/QC/HSE requirements.