As a Survey Crew Chief, you will work with entry level and experienced survey professionals to provide survey related services for KLJ client projects.

• Survey to determine precise location and measurements of points, elevations, lines, areas, and contours for construction, mapmaking, land division, titles, mining or other surveying related purposes.
• Provide guidance to Survey Technician
• Gather field data under direction of a Senior Survey Crew Chief
• Provide quality control and quality assurance by reviewing work
• Ability to complete specific Survey crew tasks as directed by Principal Land Surveyor
• Ensure compliance with KLJ safety standards
• Utilize effective written and oral communication

What You're Responsible For

• Construction staking, planning, reports, maps, plats, deeds, local geography, physical evidence, legal descriptions, and research
• Basic understanding in survey methodology and equipment and competent in its use
• Lead survey effort in the field Instruct, train, and mentor crew members
• Completes assigned tasks according to scope of services and within budget and schedule

What You'll Need

• Civil technology degree or equivalent survey field experience
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to operate motorized vehicles

Preferences:

• An LSI certification is preferred

Hours and Travel

This position requires the individual work 40 or more hours per week. The percentage of time spent in the field and office will vary.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities. The employee is regularly required to:

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly

The employee must:

• Be able to walk on uneven terrain up to ten miles per day
• Frequently lift and move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Any Who we are

Here at KLJ, we are Safe, Inclusive, Learners, Performers and Owners. We care you get home safely. Every person, every idea, and every voice matters. We encourage personal and professional growth. We celebrate performance. As a100% employee owned firm, your decisions and efforts will help shape OUR great company.

Why work at KLJ

KLJ Engineering might be just the company you have been looking for. We are the perfect size – not so big that you become a number, not so small that our resources are limited. Here, you can be you, in all your engineering, surveying, planning and scientist glory. Just as you are. We embrace how much you love engineering, because we love it too. We love it when a road curves just right, when we see a familiar water tower on our drive home, or when we consider the fiber in the ground connects us to our friends and family. If you are looking to join a great firm, with amazing technical talent, we know just the place, here at KLJ.

What else you'll need to know

This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive or restrictive and other duties may be assigned. It is a description of the job as presently defined and is subject at any time to revision. This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, as needed.

At KLJ, we have a vested interest in the personal, financial, and professional goals of our employees. We offer a competitive full suite benefit package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, performance bonus, 401k, employee stock ownership program. and a flexible work environment that gives you options to support excelling both professionally and personally. The options available for the current year are described at www.kljeng.com/careers/benefits.

All applicants must be authorized to work in the US, without employer-sponsorship. KLJ does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas and does not participate in any OPT training program.

KLJ will not be partnering with third-party recruiters on this position. Please review our third-party recruiting policy at www.kljeng.com/careers.

Position will be posted until filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)