Job Description/Specification:
An experienced surveying leader is required to manage surveying operations across multiple infrastructure, road, utility, and building projects. The role involves leading survey teams throughout the project lifecycle, from initial site activities to final handover, while maintaining technical accuracy, quality, productivity, and compliance with project requirements.
This senior position combines technical leadership with operational management, resource planning, budgeting, tender support, and business development assistance. The successful candidate will guide survey professionals, oversee surveying technologies and equipment, and coordinate with clients, consultants, government authorities, and utility stakeholders.
Candidates with extensive construction surveying experience and a proven record of managing survey teams across multiple projects will be well suited to this opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
Survey Operations and Technical Leadership
The surveying lead will oversee survey operations across multiple projects, ensuring that all activities meet contractual, client, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include developing survey strategies, establishing standard procedures, and implementing best practices to improve operational efficiency, productivity, and quality.
The role also involves providing technical guidance to Survey Managers, Chief Surveyors, Survey Engineers, and other survey personnel.
Survey Methodologies and Deliverables
A major responsibility is reviewing and approving survey methodologies, control networks, topographic surveys, setting-out activities, and final as-built submissions. The position also oversees GIS and as-built data collection to ensure accurate information is submitted within the required project handover timelines.
The successful candidate will coordinate survey support for construction planning, design verification, claims, and project close-out activities, while resolving complex surveying, construction, and utility coordination challenges.
Resource Planning and Budget Management
The role requires effective planning and allocation of survey personnel, equipment, and other resources across ongoing and upcoming projects.
Responsibilities include managing survey budgets, equipment utilization, procurement planning, and calibration programmes. The surveying lead will also review survey reports, progress updates, productivity analyses, and management dashboards to monitor performance and support operational decisions.
Tendering and Technical Proposals
The surveying lead will support the Tendering Department by reviewing tender documents, preparing quantity take-offs, estimating manpower requirements, identifying equipment needs, and developing survey execution strategies.
Additional duties include leading the preparation of technical proposals, method statements, risk assessments, and survey execution plans for new projects.
Quality, Safety and Compliance
All surveying activities must comply with applicable Ashghal and Kahramaa requirements, client specifications, international surveying standards, company procedures, and HSE policies.
The role includes implementing survey quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures and ensuring compliance with Integrated Traffic Management (ITM) requirements. The surveying lead will also monitor survey teams and subcontractors to maintain contractual, technical, and quality standards.
Team Development and Stakeholder Coordination
The position involves coordinating with clients, consultants, government authorities, and utility stakeholders on surveying, GIS, and handover requirements.
The successful candidate will mentor and train survey personnel, identify competency gaps, and establish continuous professional development initiatives. Other responsibilities may be assigned by executive management according to business and project needs.
Education and Experience Requirements
Applicants should have a bachelor's degree in Surveying or Civil Engineering. Certification in surveying instruments is preferred.
The stated professional experience requirement is 15–20 years in construction surveying, including more than five years leading survey teams across multiple projects. The job poster separately lists a minimum of 12 years of construction experience and a bachelor's degree.
Candidates should demonstrate strong technical leadership, construction surveying knowledge, team management, resource planning, budgeting, and stakeholder coordination capabilities.
Interview Preparation Tips
Candidates should prepare examples of leading survey teams across multiple construction projects, managing survey resources, and delivering accurate setting-out, topographic, GIS, and as-built information.
It is also useful to review experience with survey equipment, GNSS solutions, UAV applications, digital engineering tools, control networks, and survey software. Be prepared to explain how you maintain QA/QC standards, address complex utility coordination issues, support tender submissions, and ensure compliance with project specifications and HSE requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How much experience is required?
The detailed requirements specify 15–20 years of construction surveying experience, including more than five years leading survey teams. The job poster also mentions 12+ years of construction experience.
2. What degree is required?
A bachelor's degree in Surveying or Civil Engineering is required.
3. Is surveying instrument certification mandatory?
The description states that certification in surveying instruments is preferred.
4. Which projects does the role cover?
The position covers infrastructure, road, utility, and building projects, including survey activities from site initiation through final handover.
5. Which standards and authorities are relevant?
The description identifies Ashghal, Kahramaa (KM), client specifications, international surveying standards, company HSE policies, and ITM requirements.
6. Is the salary specified?
No. Salary, benefits, contract duration, and the employer's name are not provided in the supplied description.