Survey Manager/RPLS
About the Role
Huitt-Zollars has a great full-time opportunity for a Survey Manager/RPLS in our El Paso, Texas office. This role will lead and manage the El Paso survey department, including survey staff, project delivery, scheduling, and project budgets. The Survey Manager/RPLS will also collaborate with and support other Huitt-Zollars offices and project teams, providing surveying expertise and additional project capacity as workload and project needs require.
Location: El Paso, Texas, Employment Type: 40 FT Hours, Compensation Type: Salary, Registration(s): Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) registration required
Responsibilities
- Manage several survey projects simultaneously which include scheduling, staffing and budgets.
- Prepare scope of services and detailed project budget for multiple projects.
- Ensure technical quality, scheduling, and profitability of projects.
- Act as primary client contact and build relationships with clients.
- Negotiate scope and fees of projects with clients and follow up on billing/collections.
- Conduct marketing of surveying and engineering services and business development to obtain additional survey projects.
- Prepare proposals, cost estimates, plats, legal descriptions, topographic surveys, right of way maps, ALTA, etc.
- Ensure QA and QC review is complete.
- Manage survey staff and mentor them to develop professionally.
Qualifications
- Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
- Minimum 10 years of professional land surveying experience, including at least 5 years managing survey projects and survey staff.
- Office production experience including boundary, topographic and construction surveying.
- Business development experience.
- Knowledge in MicroStation, AutoCAD Civil 3D, or Trimble Access, is a plus.
- Passion for building client relationships, marketing surveying, and engineering services.
- Strong desire to build a positive culture among staff.
Performance Goals and Expectations
Having a deep understanding of how your work and contributions as a co-owner add to Huitt-Zollars’ mission and core values.
Maintaining expected Effective Labor Multiplier (ELM) on sum of all associated projects.
Consistently upholds business processes including timely monthly A/R’s, invoicing, timekeeping, resource forecasting, percent completes, etc.
Achieves personal sales goal.
Achieves stated target personal utilization goal for PM.
Understands, follows and ensures quality control measures and risk management measures are being applied and adhered to projects and daily operations.
About Huitt-Zollars
Huitt-Zollars, Inc. is a privately held, 100% employee-owned leading Architectural and Engineering (A/E) firm since being established in 1975.
Located in more than 20 locations throughout 11 different US states, Huitt-Zollars holds a vision to improve the environment in which we live, work, and play.
Benefits
- Health insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- Dental insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- Vision insurance (BCBS TX BlueChoice PPO)
- MDLive Telehealth
- Employer-Paid Short- & Long-Term disability
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Employee Morale/Teambuilding events and activities
- Paid Vacation/Annual Leave
- Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Commuter Benefits
- Professional Societies and Registrations Fee Reimbursements
- Term Life / AD&D insurance
- Cancer and Specified Disease insurance
- Two retirement plans: 401(k) and an ESOP
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer, type/key-in data
May lift and carry up to 50 pounds, hike up and down steep slopes carrying up to 50 pounds of survey equipment
The employee must be able to concentrate on details, work under deadline pressures, apply sound logic and judgment, and prioritize tasks and responsibilities
Employee may be asked to walk on uneven terrain
May work in extreme weather conditions
Bend, squat, dig monument holes, pound in stakes and rebar monuments
Carry and use brush cutting equipment
May drive survey vehicle