Our Client, a leading UAE-based engineering and infrastructure company, is looking to hire an experienced Land Surveyor for a key substation project in Abu Dhabi.
Title: Land Surveyor
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Purpose
To plan, coordinate and execute land surveying activities for civil, structural and infrastructure works,ensuring accurate setting-out, measurement, verification and recording of project works in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, coordinates, levels and project requirements. The role is responsible for maintaining survey accuracy and control throughout construction while ensuring compliance with quality, safety and contractual requirements.
Job Responsibilities
1. Actively follow and promote the Company Safety, Security, and Quality policies and ensure that fellow employees and visitors are doing the same.
2. Plan, coordinate and supervise surveying and setting-out activities to ensure accurate execution of civil and structural works.
3. Establish, verify and maintain survey control networks, control points, benchmarks, coordinates and reference levels throughout project execution.
4. Review approved engineering drawings, layouts, coordinates and specifications to determine survey requirements and identify discrepancies prior to construction.
5. Carry out topographic, setting-out, construction, verification and as-built surveys as required by project activities.
6. Verify line, level, alignment, dimensions, coordinates and locations of buildings, equipment foundations,
structural foundations, cable trenches, underground services, roads, drainage systems, boundary works and associated civil structures.
7. Coordinate survey requirements and interfaces with Project Engineers, Civil/Structural teams, Site Supervisors, QA/QC personnel, consultants and subcontractors.
8. Verify completed works against approved drawings and coordinates and promptly report deviations, discrepancies or site constraints requiring corrective action.
9. Prepare and maintain accurate survey records, field notes, calculations, coordinate data, inspection records and as-built information.
10. Supervise and guide survey assistants, chainmen and junior surveyors to ensure accuracy, productivity and compliance with approved survey procedures.
Qualifications and Experience
Education
• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Survey Engineering, Geomatics or a related discipline.
Experience
• Minimum 8–10 years of land surveying experience in civil and infrastructure projects.
• Minimum 5 years of UAE experience preferred.
Knowledge and Skills
• Civil, structural and infrastructure surveying.
• Survey control networks, benchmarks and coordinate systems.
• Setting-out and construction verification.
• Surveying buildings, foundations, trenches, underground services, roads and associated civil works.
• AutoCAD and survey software.
• Operation of Total Station, GPS/GNSS and levelling equipment.
• Coordination with engineering, construction, QA/QC and consultant teams.
Languages
• English is mandatory.
• Arabic or any other additional language is advantageous.