Land Surveyor (Roads and Infrastructure)

Company Overview

AECOM is a leading global infrastructure consulting firm dedicated to creating a better world by improving transportation, utilities, and urban development. Our diverse team of engineers, planners, and scientists collaborates globally to solve complex infrastructure challenges and foster sustainable growth.

Job Responsibilities

• Thoroughly interpret project contracts, blueprints, and standards to guarantee precise surveying aligned with design criteria.
• Set up, validate, and sustain key horizontal and vertical control markers on-site including benchmarks and traverse systems.
• Collaborate with contractors' surveyors to authenticate site benchmarks, layouts, and control data before starting construction.
• Audit all setting-out tasks such as alignments, elevation levels, and coordinates for roads, underground and aboveground utilities, structures, ensuring conformity with approved designs.
• Oversee excavation, backfill, and compaction processes to confirm adherence to project grades and tolerance limits.
• Inspect installation accuracy of utilities, chambers, and ducts with respect to approved survey information, verifying correct coverage and alignment.
• Conduct detailed topographic and as-built surveys, ensuring data accuracy and submission of final drawings for approval.
• Maintain and calibrate survey tools according to project quality standards.
• Support Resident and Assistant Resident Engineers by reviewing contractor surveys, spotting inconsistencies, and issuing necessary site directives.
• Document survey findings, compile reports, and maintain field records for all verification activities.
• Ensure compliance with approved procedures and safety protocols during surveying by the contractor’s team.
• Carry out joint surveys with contractors and clients for payment verification and project handover purposes.
• Confirm all infrastructure elements are accurately positioned before covering or filling operations.
• Address and resolve site survey issues, including coordination between multiple contractors or packages.
• Immediately notify project engineers of any discrepancies or errors in contractor setting-outs.
• Monitor health, safety, and environmental practices on-site and report unsafe behaviors promptly.

Additional Information

Employment requires mandatory attendance of an in-person onboarding session on the first day at a company office as part of hiring compliance. AECOM provides comprehensive benefits including healthcare, paid time off, retirement plans, employee assistance programs, and professional development opportunities. The firm emphasizes diversity, inclusion, confidentiality, and equal opportunity.

About AECOM

A Fortune 500 company with $16.1 billion revenue in 2025, AECOM offers innovative, sustainable infrastructure solutions worldwide in water, environment, energy, transportation, and construction management.

Work Environment

Join a supportive global network that fosters career growth through groundbreaking projects, the latest technology, and award-winning training programs. The workplace culture values respect, collaboration, and community, empowering employees to excel.