Senior Utility Surveyor

Job description

Your Impact:

Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the opportunity:

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.
Jacobs has an enviable reputation in the UK consultancy sector as a result of a portfolio of high-profile projects with clients that include the Highways England, National Contractors and Local Authorities. Our current challenges include a significant portfolio of infrastructure projects with many more opportunities in the pipeline. So would you like to be a member of our Birchwood team?

We are seeking individuals with utility mapping experience to support the expansion of our buried services division within the UK Surveying and Reality Capture business. The surveyor will be required to efficiently organise and maintain field survey teams and equipment to complete utility mapping tasks project tasks. They will be able to review job specifications and plan fieldwork methods, and accurately observe, calculate and record field data.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Demonstrable experience working on Utility Mapping projects and have demonstrable project experience.
• Demonstrable experience managing Utility Mapping field crews.
• Work without direct day-to-day supervision and make technical and supervisory decisions for projects assigned within specified limits of authority.
• Experience with operating and interpreting digital outputs from various Utility Mapping instruments including the IDS Stream series and Radio Detection
• Experience with Survey modelling and GPR post-processing software.
• Understand and work to detailed specifications and standards such as PAS128.
• Past Surveying experience, particularly in the UK Highways Sector and Water Sector
• Full driving licence is essential

Desirable Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field preferred but not essential
• Professional Membership of a Chartered Institution
• Evidence of planning daily activities considering possible multiple projects to meet productivity goals set by Project Managers.
• Evidence of recommendations to Project Managers for external equipment, procedural changes, and new equipment purchases.
• Evidence of input to Project Managers and Group Leaders for the formal performance evaluation of crew members.
• Evidence of survey department and field team training

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role

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Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.