Control and Topographic Survey Manager

Description

• Monitor survey activities to ensure unsafe conditions or non-compliance are promptly addressed.
• Oversee and manage the installation of control network monumentation, working with planners and construction teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Manage survey-related subcontractors, ensuring performance, safety, and compliance.
• Plan and programme surveying activities and resources to ensure alignment with the overall project programme, key milestones, critical path, and deadlines.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of modern survey technologies such as automation, digital workflows, and advanced reality capture.
• Lead the survey, processing, and formulation of the hierarchical control networks, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance.
• Manage and monitor all survey outputs for planning, commercial, accuracy, quality, and compliance with HS2 standards and project specifications.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee verification and delivery of the Topographic Engineering Survey Baseline (TESB).
• Attend coordination, interface, and integration meetings, providing clear technical input and resolving survey-related issues.
• Provide guidance, support and training to site engineers and surveyors on engineering surveying practices, including instrument checks and calibration.
• Act as the Contractor’s Control and Topographic Survey Manager, serving as the primary point of contact across all three Lots with Project Managers, Planners, the Employer, Designers, and external stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain the Topographic and Engineering Survey Management Plan, operational procedures, and all associated technical deliverables.
• Liaise with commercial staff to ensure timely preparation of records for measurement and payment, and accurate recording of any non-conformances.
• Lead the design and development of the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Survey Control Networks, liaising closely with permanent works designers.
• Support geospatial information management, including survey control, topographic, setting-out, GIS, BIM, reality capture, verification, as-built, and handover.
• Lead, build, and manage a team of engineering surveyors.

Requirements

• Demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of survey data processing, verification and extraction, ensuring output deliverables meet all information requirements for design development, coordination, and other key stakeholders.
• Desirable experience with reality capture technologies such as drones, laser scanning, and mobile mapping.
• Degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Technical proficiency with modern survey equipment and geospatial software applications.
• Demonstrated awareness and the ability to develop strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
• Good understanding of HS2 standards and requirements, and relevant construction and geospatial specifications.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Member of CICES, RICS, or a similar recognised professional institution.
• Location: London Euston (with travel required along the HS2 route)
• Strong knowledge of topographic survey techniques, including capture, processing, and delivery.
• Proven experience in delivering complex survey control networks.
• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Surveyor or Survey Manager on major civil engineering or rail infrastructure projects.
• Experience working on rail projects.
• Proven ability to deliver technical documentation such as survey plans, reports, programmes, risk assessments and activity information.

Benefits

• Life assurance
• 1 volunteering day
• Private healthcare
• 2 wellbeing days
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• 26 days holiday
• Competitive salary
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• Personal and professional development

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance