Survey Project Manager – Practice Lead

Overview

As a licensed Professional Survey Project Manager (Practice Lead) for Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc. (CEC) in our Athens, PA office. You'll work directly with our existing office and fields teams providing technical oversight, mentoring and project management. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to expand the group as well as expand its client base and capabilities. You will demonstrate excellent attention to detail throughout the survey process with a variety of projects including crew scheduling and daily assignments, developing deed work maps, developing base maps, and conducting courthouse research to collect right of way property information. You will use your knowledge of ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, Oil and Gas surveys, Pipeline Surveying, Topographic Mapping, Courthouse Research, Boundary Surveys, construction layout, and GPS surveys to contribute to the project's success. The majority of time will be spent in the office, but periodic fieldwork is anticipated.

Duties to include:

• Technical Expertise: Provide technical oversight of projects to include quality assurance and quality control of procedures and work products. Promote and monitor field and office procedures to assure a high level of consistent work products and service quality across the Athens, PA Survey Practice. Promote and monitor the comprehensive safety program for the Survey Practice.
• Personnel Development/Recruiting: Provide mentoring and training to survey staff to assure professional growth and development. Assist with the identification and recruiting of key personnel.
• Strategic Visioning/Leadership: Assist with the efforts in identifying opportunities for growing the practice by expansion of survey services. Assist with business development and marketing effort and implement sales strategies to provide sustainable growth of the practice. Work with other practices within CEC to provide an integrated approach to addressing our client’s needs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional surveying experience;
• Current Professional Survey license in Pennsylvania and ability to obtain a New York PLS required;
• Knowledge of technological advances, principles, techniques and practices of land surveying;
• Experience with survey project management; including preparation of proposals, tracking project budgets, and billing review;
• Ability to speak and write professionally;
• Ability to provide guidance and mentoring to staff in the Survey Practice; and
• Ability to assist in business development and growth of Survey Practice using marketing and networking techniques.

About Us

We have experts! CEC is consistently ranked as a Top 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm by Engineering News-Record. We are looking for people who enjoy using their education and experience to solve difficult technical problems and work on interesting projects. You can accomplish this while working with a team of professionals who are equally motivated to provide high levels of service to our clients and to teach you along the way.

We have support! We have a variety of Employee Resource Groups, including CEC Community – focused on giving back to the communities in which we work; CEC Ignite – focused on helping professionals early in their careers to develop their pathway; CEC iDEA – focused on inclusion, diversity, equality, and acceptance; and CEC Women – focused on creating internal and external opportunities for women to network and leverage professional experience!

We care about our people! People and Culture are two of the five elements of our strategic plan. When you care about your people, they will want to grow a career with you – that is our goal. CEC offers you a small-firm work environment with large-firm opportunities. Not only will we help you develop professionally, but we will also provide an opportunity to become an owner of the firm and share in its success.

CEC offers a matching 401(k); profit sharing; a performance bonus; company stock; medical, dental, and vision insurance; short and long-term disability; tuition assistance; professional development; and work-life balance.

CEC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

THIRD PARTY RECRUITERS

If CEC has not expressly requested recruiting services or contractually engaged with you for recruiting services on a specific position, any resumes or candidate profiles sent to CEC shall be considered unsolicited.  Therefore, any such submissions will be considered property of CEC, with no associated fees due to your firm.