Professional Surveyor/Project Manager

About the position

The Professional Surveyor/Project Manager at Horrocks is responsible for managing land development and transportation projects, with a focus on boundary retracement, design support, and construction surveying. This role requires a blend of technical expertise in surveying and project management skills to ensure successful project delivery while contributing to the company's commitment to community improvement and innovative engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Apply field techniques related to boundary retracement, design support, and construction surveying support.
• Manage multiple projects and staff effectively.
• Retrace and create property boundaries for roads, pipelines, facility sites, and other rights-of-way and easements.
• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, recorded documents, and other relevant information.
• Compile survey computations with applicable standards to determine the adequacy of data.
• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using design plans.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Requirements

• Considerable knowledge in property/ownership/documentation research, boundary law, writing legal descriptions, and preparing boundary surveys, plats, ALTA/NSPS surveys, terrestrial topographic maps, construction staking, and roadway right-of-way projects.
• Strong working knowledge of Civil 3D, Trimble Business Center, MS Office.
• Experience with OPUS Projects and Microstation is a plus.
• Working knowledge of collecting, controlling, and processing LiDAR data from both static and kinematic platforms is a plus.
• FAA Part 107 Certification and experience producing topographic mapping from a UAV platform is a plus.
• Fluent with Trimble equipment.
• Precision and ability to perform QA/QC are critical.
• Strong sense of urgency, with outstanding prioritization skills and professionalism.
• Ability to learn and develop new skill sets.
• New Mexico State Professional Land Surveyor license (or capable of becoming licensed in New Mexico within 1 year of employment) is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in municipal projects is a plus.
• OPUS Projects and Microstation experience are a plus.
• Experience with UAV platforms for topographic mapping is a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Generous paid time off.
• 401(k), with no vesting period.
• Professional development opportunities including in-house training.
• Paid professional organization membership and professional licensure.