Survey Party Chief at Consor Engineers – Phoenix, Arizona

Consor is currently seeking a Survey Party Chief to join our Construction Services Surveying team in our Phoenix Downtown office. This role supports transportation-related structures with a strong focus on heavy civil construction, preferably involving ADOT projects. As a rapidly growing engineering consulting firm, Consor offers exceptional opportunities for career development and advancement.

• Perform field surveying at assigned project locations.
• Lead and assist a field survey crew in locating existing survey monuments, setting traverse/control points, placing new monuments, and preparing targets for aerial mapping.
• Direct survey activities on multiple transportation construction projects, including bridges, overpasses, underpasses, and roadway structures.
• Adjust workflow and field methods to accommodate changing project conditions.
• Verify field locations of construction items and compare findings against design plans.
• Interpret and clarify construction plans for team members, contractor personnel, and project staff.
• Communicate project changes and provide technical guidance to field personnel.
• Demonstrate proper use of specialized surveying equipment and mentor junior staff.
• Operate GPS/GNSS receivers, robotic and conventional total stations, levels, and related equipment to establish horizontal and vertical control.
• Compile, organize, and maintain field survey books and records.
• Prepare maps, diagrams, sketches, annotated photos, and detailed field notes.
• Write precise descriptions of control points and monuments for future retrieval.
• Prepare transit books noting angles, distances, and slope calculations.
• Establish or direct setup of traffic control at job sites to ensure safe working conditions.
• Review crew work in progress to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with project standards.
• Teach and demonstrate basic surveying principles and methods to field staff.
• Maintain survey equipment, perform minor testing and calibration, and oversee care of assigned vehicles.

• Minimum 10 years of field surveying experience, or Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT).
• NSPS CST Level III certification required (or RLS, NICET Level III).
• Strong experience performing heavy construction staking/layout, specifically for transportation structures such as bridges, underpasses, and overpasses.
• Proficiency with survey instruments including robotic and conventional total stations, GPS/GNSS systems, digital and automatic levels, and data collectors.
• Ability to enter survey data accurately into electronic equipment, field books, and computers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a team.

• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazards, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.