Job Details
Job Title: Surveyor
Employer: Allnorth Consultants Limited
Location: 1200-1100 Melville Street, Vancouver, BC
Salary: From $25 per hour
Employment Type: Permanent employment, Full-time
Start Date: Starts as soon as 2024-04-15
Verified: Yes
Benefits
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- RRSP match
How To Apply
Apply online through the company’s website
About Allnorth
At Allnorth, we are a multi-disciplinary engineering, project delivery, and construction services company. Our services include providing smart and practical project solutions to our numerous clients in the metals and minerals sector. As well as in the energy and renewables, fiber and chemicals, and infrastructure sectors.
Furthermore, we have offices all across Canada, the US, and Mexico, and we have continued to grow over the years. Our team of great minds is our most valuable and greatest asset, and a triple bottom line (TBL) philosophy is at the heart of our business. Therefore, it takes a skillful, high-spirited, and empowered team to delight our clients and thereby drive profitability for all parties.
In terms of guiding principles, safety is a core part of our DNA. We aim at building and nurturing Indigenous relationships, we also support our communities and recognize the importance of environmental stewardship.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are currently in search of a highly experienced surveyor for local work on various projects in Western Canada. You will have to conduct a broad range of field surveys which includes construction layout, topographic, volumetric, and legal.
Job Responsibilities
As a surveyor, your job responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Creating a network of control points to carry out survey work on the entire length of the project.
- Staking working widths, centreline, and extra work-spaces as specified in drawings.
- As well as data capturing of pipe as built, pipe tracking, depth of cover, ditch plugs, and lots more.
- Volume calculations.
- Data reporting on features that may be removed or destroyed during construction, barriers, and bridges.
- Summary reports on pipe tracking including installed, waste, and lost pipe, as well as tracking of each pipe joint.
- 3D scanning, including modeling and data processing using Leica scanners.
What You Will Bring To The Team
- You must possess a minimum of one to three years of construction surveying experience.
- Previous construction or Land surveying experience
- If you have 3D scanning experience, it will be considered as an asset.
- Obtain a diploma in Geomatics Engineering or Surveying Technology or its equivalent field training.
- Have a valuable experience using AutoCAD‘s Civil 3D.
- Registering as a Professional Survey Technologist is also an asset.
- You must have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- In addition, you must possess technical competence and attention to detail.
- A high level of dependability
- Local to St. John’s but open to some travel.
- Likewise, a driver’s license is required for this position.
Benefits
At Allnorth, we believe that a happy and fulfilled team will lead to exceptional results. As such, we have provided a variety of perks designed to support your well-being, career growth, and community engagement.
- We provide you with a flexible work schedule and location, to allow for a better work-life balance.
- There’s also a comprehensive benefits package which includes extended health and dental coverage and RRSP matching.
- We have an employee Assistance Program for team members and their families.
- A culture of respect and inclusivity fosters long-term relationships and a team atmosphere.
- You will experience professional development and growth opportunities (for instance, the New and Young Worker Mentorship program).
- Team Member Referral Program
- A paid Volunteer Day which is often away from work to support the community.
- We also provide monthly “Lunch & Learn” sessions.
- There are opportunities for you to bond with other team members, have fun, and make a difference through involvement in social and safety committees. In addition, we have fundraising and community support initiatives (for instance, Movember, Pi Day, Food Banks, Women’s Shelters, Ronald McDonald House, and Earth Day cleanups, among others.
- We offer you a competitive hourly range from $25 for Survey Assistants to $40+ for Senior Surveyors or Party Chiefs.
WE TAKE CARE OF YOU SO YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF OUR CLIENTS
When you join our team members, you will have the opportunity of rewarding and career-developing challenges that will push you to contribute to our client’s successes. However, despite how much we’ve grown, you will never just be a number, but rather a vital member of the Allnorth Team.
Engage with us at Allnorth and be empowered to enrich people’s lives, as well as yours. We are an equal-opportunity employer. Furthermore, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, or gender. As well as gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other legally protected status.
Meanwhile, all applicants must have the ability to show proof of eligibility to work in Canada. Therefore, we appreciate all applicants for their interest in our organization. Please note that only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
QUALITIES OF A GOOD LAND SURVEYOR
Versatile
A land surveyor is by definition a multidisciplinary professional and a good surveyor is versatile. Their area of expertise is also very wide. This is because they are called upon to carry out a variety of tasks in a wide range of areas. They must be excellent in skills such as mathematics, problem-solving, computer science, and cartography.
Furthermore, they will need to express an interest in the law, as their job role keeps them working closely with municipal and provincial legislation. In the course of their daily work, these experts are required to use numerous precision tools, such as:
- Survey instruments (levels, theodolites, rangefinders, satellite positioning systems, robotic total stations, and lidar).
- Photogrammetry devices.
- Computers.
- Peripheral equipment (plotting table, scanning table, and optical scanner).
- Varieties of software (surveying, mapping, and geographic information systems).
Undertaking
Meanwhile, their use of these numerous surveyor tools, coupled with their multidisciplinary capabilities will allow them to perform numerous undertakings. These include:
- Spatial planning.
- Boundary marking.
- Technical description.
- Geodesy.
- Implantation.
- Subdivision.
- Cadastral operations.
- Photogrammetry.
- Staking.
- Topometry.
Additionally, the surveyor is involved in obtaining and setting property lines, preparing location certificates and rental space certificates, creating a divided co-ownership, and lots more. The practice of surveying and geomatics has been continuously updated due to the use of new technologies like artificial intelligence, drones, and others. Therefore, surveyors are expected to show a high degree of adaptability.
Honesty And Objective
A land surveyor is a public officer, and as such, they must be objective, honest, and possess an exceptional sense of ethics. As a good surveyor, personal interests have no place in their work, and they must be based on facts that are verifiable, analyzable, and measurable.
Furthermore, their impartiality often permits them to intervene in a lot of situations. These include disputes between neighbors concerning property lines. Also, they have the opportunity to act as an expert in many other similar conflict situations.
Rigorous And Precise
Land surveyors are measurement experts and as such, they must be precise. They must also be meticulous and possess a strong attention to detail. While doing research, surveyors need to be rigorous in their measurement and analysis. This is necessary to obtain an accurate picture of the object at the heart of their mandate.
In addition, a good land surveyor must be organized, and have a clear, and efficient working method. These elements are inseparable from scientific rigor, which is essential in their job.
Transparency
No one likes to be left in the dark, especially when money and properties are involved. Based on this, surveyors that you wish to hire to help determine the boundaries of your land or make a certificate of location must be very transparent. This simply means they must be honest and clear in their dealings.
Also, surveyors need to provide a clear quote, detailing the tasks performed and the associated costs to their customers. The expert must provide you with sufficient information to fully understand each of the steps that will take place. You will then have an excellent understanding of the situation.
Meet Established Deadlines
Meeting deadlines and not disappointing clients is a key factor in determining a good surveyor. This gives you peace of mind and saves you from unnecessary delays. For instance, assume that you want to have your house built and you wait for the surveyor to start the work.
In case they fail to meet up with the deadline, your entire project may suffer serious consequences. Therefore, the surveyor must be punctual and diligent in the execution of their tasks.
Good Communicator
Finally, a qualified land surveyor must be a good communicator, both orally and in writing. This ability allows them in particular to:
- Collaborate with several other experts from different backgrounds;
- Coordinate the various actions that must be taken;
- Negotiate effectively;
- Administer your team.
Their communication skills are also required to answer questions from their clients and to popularize information so that occasionally complex issues can be easily understood.