Project Surveyor, Transportation

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<p>Woolpert is an award-winning, global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial services. We blend design excellence with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional client value. Our team is passionate about their work and committed to building the next generation of industry leaders, and as a certified Great Place to Work<a href="https://woolpert.com/about-us/culture/">®</a>, Woolpert embraces progress and innovation to create limitless opportunities for career growth.</p></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Position Overview:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Woolpert is hiring a Project Surveyor to support transportation projects throughout Ohio, with an emphasis on work for the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT). This role leads the planning, coordination, technical execution, quality control, and delivery of survey and geospatial work supporting roadway, bridge, right-of-way, utility, and construction projects. The Project Surveyor works closely with project managers, design teams, field crews, CADD staff, subconsultants, and ODOT district and central-office personnel to deliver accurate, consistent, and design-ready survey products in accordance with project scope, schedule, budget, and applicable ODOT requirements.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span data-teams="true">We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What You Will Do</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lead survey tasks and project phases for ODOT and other Ohio transportation clients, from scoping and fee development through final delivery.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Review requests for proposals, project plans, and available records to define survey limits, technical requirements, assumptions, staffing needs, schedules, and budgets.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Develop survey approaches for roadway, bridge, corridor, intersection, interchange, drainage, pedestrian, and maintenance-of-traffic projects.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plan and coordinate horizontal and vertical project control, GNSS observations, conventional traverses, differential leveling, topographic surveys, drainage and structure surveys, and supplemental design surveys.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Direct boundary and existing right-of-way research, field evidence recovery, deed and plat analysis, resolution of record and occupation conflicts, and development of right-of-way basemapping.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Coordinate preparation and review of right-of-way plans, legal descriptions, plats, parcel exhibits, centerline plats, and other acquisition-related survey deliverables when included in the project scope.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Coordinate subsurface utility locating and mapping with survey basemapping, including Quality Level A and Quality Level B information, test-hole data, utility records, and field-observed evidence.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integrate conventional survey, mobile mapping, terrestrial lidar, aerial imagery, photogrammetry, and other geospatial datasets into cohesive, design-ready deliverables.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oversee processing, feature attribution, terrain development, planimetric mapping, and basemap production using current ODOT CADD standards and OpenRoads Designer workflows.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Apply applicable ODOT Location and Design Manual requirements, CADD standards, survey specifications, project-specific instructions, and approved quality procedures.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Establish project-specific QA/QC plans and perform or coordinate independent checks of control, calculations, field data, mappings, right-of-way determinations, legal descriptions, and final deliverables.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Monitor progress against scope, schedule, and budget; document variances; and develop corrective actions when project conditions or client requirements change.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Communicate technical issues, survey risks, access constraints, utility conflicts, safety concerns, and potential scope changes to the project manager and appropriate client contacts.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Coordinate field activities, traffic-control needs, railroad or restricted-access requirements, permits, property access, and work-zone safety expectations.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Coach, mentor, and delegate work to survey crews, technicians, CADD staff, and other technical team members while reinforcing consistent procedures and quality expectations.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Support proposal development, ODOT prequalification packages, consultant selection materials, technical approaches, fee negotiations, and project interviews as requested.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Maintain organized project records, calculations, correspondence, quality documentation, and deliverable archives in accordance with company and client requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Perform other duties as assigned.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What You Will Bring</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bachelor's degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professional Surveyor registration in Ohio is strongly preferred. Ohio Surveyor Intern or LSIT certification may be considered with appropriate transportation-survey experience.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience supporting ODOT, local public agency, or comparable state DOT transportation projects is strongly preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Working knowledge of transportation surveying, project control, topographic mapping, boundary and right-of-way principles, utility mapping, and construction-related survey support.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Familiarity with ODOT survey and mapping requirements, Location and Design Manual guidance, CADD standards, right-of-way plan development practices, and project delivery expectations is preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Proficiency with OpenRoads Designer and MicroStation is preferred. Experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D, Trimble Business Center, survey data collectors, GNSS processing, lidar, or mobile-mapping workflows is beneficial.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to interpret roadway and bridge plans, survey scopes, right-of-way plans, deeds, plats, title information, utility records, and technical specifications.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to prepare and manage project scopes, schedules, staffing plans, budgets, progress forecasts, and change documentation.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to identify and explain planned-versus-actual performance variances and recommend practical corrective action.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sound technical judgment and the ability to synthesize records, field evidence, survey observations, design information, and project requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to coordinate effectively with ODOT personnel, project managers, engineers, utility coordinators, subconsultants, property owners, and internal technical teams.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent assignments with competing priorities and deadlines.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Commitment to quality, safety, ethics, client service, and compliance with applicable professional standards and Ohio surveying laws and regulations.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and common project collaboration tools.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to travel, including occasional overnight travel, to support project and client needs.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Preferred ODOT-Related Qualifications</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience serving as Project Surveyor, Survey Task Lead, or QA/QC reviewer on ODOT roadway, bridge, right-of-way, or subsurface utility locating assignments.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ODOT prequalification or documented project experience related to complex right-of-way plan development/review, survey, or subsurface utility locating services.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience coordinating multidisciplinary transportation deliverables with roadway, bridge, drainage, traffic, environmental, and utility teams.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Experience developing survey deliverables for multiple ODOT districts or statewide/task-order contracts.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Physical Requirements</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to perform prolonged computer and office work and operate standard office equipment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to occasionally visit active roadway, bridge, construction, and field-survey sites, including walking on uneven terrain and working near traffic or construction operations while using required personal protective equipment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to occasionally reach, bend, climb, balance, and lift or move up to 40 pounds.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ability to safely and effectively perform the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Benefits You Will Love</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">#LI-KA1</span></p>
<p> </p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.</p></div><div class="title">Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$57,800</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$86,800 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Find out more about what Woolpert has to offer here:  <a href="http://woolpert.com/about-us/">http://woolpert.com/about-us/</a></strong></p>
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