Engineering Surveyor
Job description
Pro Rail Services Limited is a rail civil engineering and plant family run business who are currently looking to recruit an Engineering Surveyor. This vacancy is an immediate start.
Duties and responsibilities
As Engineering Surveyor your duties and responsibilities will be:
- Liaise with the Lead Surveyor daily
- Review the work program with the Lead Surveyor
- Survey to the required standard and gain knowledge on the standards you are working to
- Have a commercial awareness of both equipment and resources
- Check all equipment is calibrated
- Complete handover reports and site diary after each shift in conjunction with the Lead Surveyor
- Have the ability to process own data
- Ensure all master trackers are updated after every shift
- Mentor junior surveyors
- Attend weekly meetings
- In the Lead Surveyor’s absence, the Engineering Surveyor will act as Lead Surveyor
The ideal candidate will have
- A diploma or postgraduate qualification in surveying, civil engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of geographical information systems (GIS) and surveying programs
- The ability to handle responsibility
- Mapping skills
- Good engineering skillset and abilities
- The capacity to identify problems and to offer solutions
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Experience of Leica and/or Trimble instruments (GNSS/GPS and total station)
- Knowledge of (but not limited to) general surveying practices (traversing, levelling, laser scanner (preferred not essential), topographical surveys, setting out etc.)
- Knowledge of (but not limited to) railway surveying practices (height and stagger gauging, cant and gauge measurements, platform gauging, track/slope monitoring, OLE as-built measurements)
- Knowledge of surveying programs (LSS, AutoCAD etc.)
- Attention to detail
- Full UK driving licence
- A minimum of one year of surveying experience
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a company within the rail industry with progression opportunities within the wider business group.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Free on site parking
If you think this could be you then please apply within, or send your CV to recruitment@prorailservices.co.uk or call 01707 927400 for more details.
About Pro Rail Services
Pro Rail Services is a national railway civil engineering contractor delivering specialist innovative and effective solutions to the UK rail infrastructure industry.
We are a family run business leading the way in innovation for railway engineering, infrastructure and plant.
Our commitment to self-delivery ensures the highest levels of safety and delivery performance. Our management team has over 25 years’ experience in delivering complex multi-million-pound programmes, providing dynamic solutions to complex organisational, technical and commercial problems.
We are a Network Rail POS licence holder with our own fleet of specialised road rail vehicles and drainage plant and attachments, we retain our own skilled labour and safety critical staff, and can provide a full survey, design and build solution.
We are also a Network Rail Principal Contractor and hold our own PCL licence.
We are a Zero RIDDOR business since our inception in 2012 and have never handed back a possession late.
Note to recruiters
Strictly no agencies please.
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It is the policy of Pro Rail Services to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, gender, sex, age, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or information or any other characteristic protected by law. We will take additional measures to support anyone who may need assistance throughout our recruitment process.
We are not an immigration sponsored company and so are unable to accept applications from anyone who does not hold the correct documentation allowing them to legally work in the UK.