Rocky Mountain Survey Practice Lead

About the Role

Wilson & Company is seeking an experienced Licensed Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) to lead our Rocky Mountain Survey Practice. This leadership opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys maintaining and building new client relationships across public and private sectors, mentoring professionals, and growing a high-performing, diversified surveying practice while delivering exceptional technical services.

As the Rocky Mountain Survey Practice Lead, you will provide strategic leadership for survey operations across multiple offices, partnering closely with engineering teams to deliver boundary, topographic, utility, transmission, transportation, rail, and infrastructure surveying services for a broad mix of clients. This position focuses on client satisfaction, staff development, project performance, quality management, and business growth, with an emphasis on winning and sustaining work across multiple client sectors.

Responsibilities

• Leadership
  • Lead and inspire survey teams across the Rocky Mountain Region.
  • Develop, mentor, and coach project managers, professional surveyors, and field staff.
  • Foster a culture focused on safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Support recruiting, onboarding, retention, and succession planning.
  • Balance workloads and allocate resources across offices to maximize efficiency.
• Client Relationships & Business Development
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to public and private clients across every sector the practice serves.
  • Proactively pursue and secure new work across a diversified client base, including state and municipal transportation agencies, electric utilities, transmission owners, EPC firms, rail carriers, and private developers.
  • Develop long-term client relationships that generate repeat business across multiple sectors.
  • Lead or support project pursuits, proposals, interviews, and contract negotiations.
  • Collaborate with engineering practice leaders to pursue multidisciplinary opportunities.
  • Champion growth in strategic markets.
• Practice Management
  • Oversee financial performance including backlog, forecasting, utilization, profitability, and project performance.
  • Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to Wilson & Company's quality standards.
  • Monitor project risks and implement proactive solutions.
  • Continuously improve operational processes and project delivery.
• Technical Leadership
  • Provide technical oversight for boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, utility, transmission, transportation, rail, and construction surveying projects.
  • Review survey deliverables to ensure technical accuracy and defensibility.
  • Guide implementation of emerging technologies including GNSS, LiDAR, UAS, mobile mapping, and 3D data collection.
  • Promote innovation and best practices throughout the practice.

Requirements

• Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license in Colorado or Utah.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible land surveying experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading survey teams and managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated track record of winning and growing work across a diversified client base — not dependent on any single client or agency relationship.
• Strong understanding of boundary law, topographic surveying, control networks, and modern surveying technologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and client relationship skills.
• Experience managing project financial performance and staffing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Licensure in multiple Rocky Mountain states.
• Experience supporting transportation, rail, utility, transmission, energy, municipal, and infrastructure projects across a range of client types.
• Proven success developing new business with electric utilities, transmission owners, EPC firms, and private developers, in addition to public agencies.
• Familiarity with multiple agency surveying standards, including CDOT and UDOT.
• Experience with Trimble Business Center, Civil 3D, MicroStation/OpenRoads, GIS platforms, and LiDAR workflows.

Benefits

Wilson & Company supports employees' success and well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance options
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings plans

We invest in our people through leadership development, technical training, mentorship, and opportunities for career growth.

Pay

Annual Salary: $145,000 - $160,000

Location

Preferred locations include:

• Denver, Colorado
• Loveland, Colorado
• Salt Lake City, Utah

Hybrid work arrangements may be considered for highly qualified candidates.