Construction Layout Specialist (Survey Technician)
About the role
At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals.
As a Construction Layout Specialist, you will manage and oversee construction surveying layout execution and as built reality capture in an exciting and fast-paced environment. This includes self-perform services such as concrete or process piping as well as QA/QC of sub-contractor.
Responsibilities
- Control: Oversee the establishment and implementation of job-related control points & bench marks provided by outside surveyors.
- Establishes additional control points, grid lines for piping, equipment, structures, wall lines, columns, and anchor bolts as needed.
- Transfers benchmarks as needed.
- Field Layout: Identifies, troubleshoots, & seeks resolutions for field issues and discrepancies, including both technical equipment issues, field best practices, and/or digital project data issues.
- Executes all layout or as-built tasks necessary, including pre-planning ahead of scheduled activities.
- Determines & implements mathematical functions as they pertain to layout and engineering.
- Performs fundamental layout techniques using Tape Measures, Squares, Builders Levels, Transits, and technical equipment, primarily Robotic Total Station.
- Plan Reading: Interprets contract documents, design models, & construction models as necessary to perform assigned tasks.
- Reviews and maintains documents as received pertaining to dimensions and changes due to architect, owner - such as field orders, change orders and request for information and makes recommendations as needed.
- Communication: Coordinate with VDC resources and/or equipment manufacturer support when necessary to resolve issues.
- Maintains field notes, uploads, reports on a daily basis, including transmission of field data to the office VDC team.
- Communicate with field management team (superintendent, assist superintendent) about job needs for new work and ongoing work as related to field technician capabilities/duties.
- Coordinate with VDC/BIM team the goals/needs/focus of projects as related to VDC/BIM capabilities/options.
- Standards: Reviews initial distribution of field data, layout drawings prior to establishing layout in the field
- Follows “Best Practices” related to construction surveying and reality capture / laser scanning tasks.
- Travel required: Perform construction surveying related field work as needed to supplement C-Core schedule/personnel needs including layout, data collection, QA/QC, and laser scanning
- Perform construction surveying related office work as needed to supplement C-Core schedule/personnel needs including laser scan registration, layout point creation, and VDC/BIM data review/analysis
- Participate in miscellaneous construction survey related tasks as needed
Requirements
- Minimum 2+ years of construction related experience and/or training; and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Benefits
At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more.
Qualifications
Environmental Factors and/or Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, this position is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds.
Requires good hand-eye coordination, and arm, hand and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information.
The associate frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.