Control and Topographic Survey Manager
Royal BAM Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Act as the Contractor’s Control and Topographic Survey Manager, serving as the primary point of contact across all three Lots with Project Managers, Planners, the Employer, Designers, and external stakeholders.
- Prepare and maintain the Topographic and Engineering Survey Management Plan, operational procedures, and all associated technical deliverables.
- Lead, build, and manage a team of engineering surveyors.
- Manage survey-related subcontractors, ensuring performance, safety, and compliance.
- Monitor survey activities to ensure unsafe conditions or non-compliance are promptly addressed.
- Liaise with commercial staff to ensure timely preparation of records for measurement and payment, and accurate recording of any non-conformances.
- Plan and programme surveying activities and resources to ensure alignment with the overall project programme, key milestones, critical path, and deadlines.
- Lead the design and development of the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Survey Control Networks, liaising closely with permanent works designers.
- Oversee and manage the installation of control network monumentation, working with planners and construction teams to ensure timely delivery.
- Lead the survey, processing, and formulation of the hierarchical control networks, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance.
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee verification and delivery of the Topographic Engineering Survey Baseline (TESB).
- Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of survey data processing, verification and extraction, ensuring output deliverables meet all information requirements for design development, coordination, and other key stakeholders.
- Support geospatial information management, including survey control, topographic, setting-out, GIS, BIM, reality capture, verification, as-built, and handover.
- Manage and monitor all survey outputs for planning, commercial, accuracy, quality, and compliance with HS2 standards and project specifications.
- Attend coordination, interface, and integration meetings, providing clear technical input and resolving survey-related issues.
- Provide guidance, support and training to site engineers and surveyors on engineering surveying practices, including instrument checks and calibration.
- Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of modern survey technologies such as automation, digital workflows, and advanced reality capture.
Requirements
- Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Member of CICES, RICS, or a similar recognised professional institution.
- Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Surveyor or Survey Manager on major civil engineering or rail infrastructure projects.
- Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience working on rail projects.
- Demonstrated awareness and the ability to develop strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
- Proven experience in delivering complex survey control networks.
- Strong knowledge of topographic survey techniques, including capture, processing, and delivery.
- Desirable experience with reality capture technologies such as drones, laser scanning, and mobile mapping.
- Good understanding of HS2 standards and requirements, and relevant construction and geospatial specifications.
- Technical proficiency with modern survey equipment and geospatial software applications.
- Proven ability to deliver technical documentation such as survey plans, reports, programmes, risk assessments and activity information.
- A strong commitment to Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- A wide range of family-friendly policies
- Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
- 8 % matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days holiday
- 2 wellbeing days
- 1 volunteering day
- Personal and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
survey managementtopographic survey techniquessurvey data processingsurvey control networksengineering surveying practicesrisk assessmentsactivity informationtechnical documentationgeospatial information managementautomation
Soft skills
communicationcoordinationstakeholder engagementleadershipteam managementproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementtrainingguidanceinnovation
Certifications
degree in SurveyingHND in SurveyingCICES membershipRICS membership