Lead Surveyor/ Digital Engineer - Earth Works

Location: Bicester - Calvert

Salary / Benefits: £350 - 450 a day

An exceptional opportunity to join a market leading civil engineering and rail infrastructure company in a Lead Surveyor/ Digital Engineer role, working with a professional commercial team reporting to a Commercial Director.

With an enviable reputation for project delivery coupled with an ever growing reputation within the Construction, Rail and Civil Engineering markets, our trusted client established over 65 years ago has seen significant growth via new contract awards and repeat business helping lay the foundations and keep the order book healthy with medium to large scale key projects around the United Kingdom.

A cash rich business with a turnover exceeding half a billion pounds, yet still privately owned giving a true family feel to the business, showing worth of its employees by autonomy and empowerment and the feeling that you are not just another cog in the wheel but who are genuinely interested in employees personal and professional development.

With the successful tendering of a large Rail Engineering projects our client working in partnership with Caval is looking for a Senior Lead Surveyor/ Digital Engineer. The position is offered on a contract or permanent basis.

The Role

• Organise and record the OGL / Initial topographic survey and compare with Client construction models recognise, identify and record change.
• Analyse construction earthworks models (prepare revised earthworks schedule) and compare with tender - recognise, identify, and record change in model and volume change.
• Check new designs models vs drawings and report changes.
• Identify any issues or problems with Client 3D model.
• Edit the design models and issue to the Earthworks Manager for formal acceptance through the clients AFC process.
• Construction material volume modelling in layers topsoil, subsoil, granular, bulk etc
• Identify and analyse any additional volumes or changes from drawings.
• Tracking and recording daily and weekly volume movements and materials type / classifications.
• Record and analyse volumes required to fill soft spots.
• Ensure theoretical fill volumes are understood and recorded prior to filling.
• Identify stockpiles and ensure volumes tracked into and out of stockpiles (whether granular or not, including topsoil)
• Ensure surveyors check via modelling / survey fill areas prior to filling. Record actual fill volumes and compare with theoretical / survey volumes.
• Analyse Weekly surveys to record total weekly volumes of materials moved.
• Material reconciliations to be undertaken and recorded on a daily / weekly basis.
• Analyse records of any hard materials, foundations, buried structures or obstructions and notify as required.
• Accurately compile and store all survey data.
• Update a master survey model every day and Quality Check.
• Update the Material Tracking documents.
• Load and manage machine and engineering setting out via remote software.
• Run the volume calcs as pre-agreed intervals.