Select Plant Hire
Project Land Surveyor
Requirements
Candidates should have around seven or more years of land or engineering surveying experience, preferably on major infrastructure or construction projects, and advanced knowledge of Leica equipment and software, particularly Cyclone 3DR. Experience managing control networks and survey strategy, coordinating with project teams, strong communication and planning skills, and a degree, NVQ, TSA qualification, or equivalent are sought.
Job Description
Location: National
Permanent | 40 hours per week | Monday - Friday
Select Plant Hire is looking for a Project Land Surveyor to lead survey delivery across major infrastructure, rail and energy projects throughout the UK.
This role combines technical surveying expertise with project ownership. You'll work closely with project managers, engineers and digital engineering teams, ensuring survey requirements are planned, coordinated and delivered throughout the project lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading survey activities from mobilisation through to completion.
- Managing primary and secondary control networks.
- Delivering topographical, engineering and laser scanning surveys.
- Coordinating survey requirements with project managers, engineers and stakeholders.
- Producing and reviewing survey models, drawings and reports.
- Supporting earthworks calculations and digital engineering workflows.
- Driving quality, accuracy and best practice across survey operations.
- Around 7+ years' experience in land or engineering surveying.
- Strong experience on major infrastructure or construction projects.
- Advanced knowledge of Leica equipment and software, particularly Cyclone 3DR.
- Experience managing control networks and survey strategy.
- Ability to coordinate with project teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication and planning skills.
- Degree, NVQ, TSA qualification or equivalent.
- Company car or car allowance.
- Travel, accommodation and expenses covered where required.
- Mobility support for assignments requiring extended stays away from home.
- Flexible travel arrangements.
- Flexible approach to home working when project commitments allow.
- Long-term involvement in projects from start to finish.
- Opportunity to work on major projects including HS2, East West Rail, Great Grid Upgrade, Oxford Ellison Stansted Airport and more.
- Open to sponsorship.
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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About Select Plant Hire
With over 30 years’ experience, Select has built an excellent reputation as one of the UK’s largest – and most diverse – as the supplier of choice for equipment, accommodation and services to the construction industry. From tower cranes to cherry pickers, traffic management to modular accommodation, we offer the very latest in plant technology. Amalgamating site logistics, welfare provision, security, temporary services, crane schemes, piling requirements and instrumentation and monitoring services as well as inspection and test services. Our teams work as one across all our functions ensuring efficient collaboration and communication. What sets us apart from our competitors is our expertise when working with clients to develop solutions at tender stage to maximise efficiency that deliver real value to a project. We can build a complete package that suits your project from conception to handover, providing a safer and more productive site, regardless of size and complexity. Our delivery is assured by our highly skilled, directly employed mobile workforce, our dedicated and experienced management and robust alignment with our original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supply chain. Select understands the critical role that logistics, engineering, working environment, safety and reliability plays in modern construction. Which is why we believe our expertise and considered approach sets us apart from our competitors. We work with our customers and clients to develop solutions that maximises efficiency, delivers real value to a project and ensure our customers receive so much more than the tools to get the job done.