Hydrographic Surveyor/Hydrographer

Prairie Engineers, P.C. is seeking an experienced Hydrographic Surveyor/Hydrographer to join our team.

Join a collaborative team that fuels your growth and rewards your dedication. We're a team looking to make a lasting impact and want people who embrace challenges, drive change, and help shape our collective future. If that's you, let's connect!

This position includes both field and office assignments and will require extensive travel to locations throughout the U.S. with occasional international travel possible. This isn't an easy position; we work long days in sometimes harsh conditions as well as remote locations. But if you're experienced, looking for a challenge, and enjoy developing solutions to get the job done well, we may be the right fit for you!

You must be able and willing to be a highly responsible, capable, and contributing or leading member of our team, able to utilize technology, and think on your feet. This position will be full-time with paid travel expenses, per diem allowance for meals, and available to be filled in several of our offices. As part of our award-winning company, we will work with you to achieve career success!

What you Need:

• Experience: 6 years performing hydrographic surveys or 4 years as a surveyor with a strong desire to expand expertise as demonstrated by the willingness to take hydrographic survey coursework outside of working hours
• Travel: Willingness to travel within the United States to meet project requirements
• Communication: Good verbal and written skills
• Safety: A valid driver’s license and insurable driving record

How you Align:

• People Focused: Professional, respectful, and teamoriented, with a strong work ethic and the ability to collaborate internally and externally
• Can Do Attitude: Positively engages with challenges, facilitates problemsolving, and takes initiative to deliver solutions

Responsive: Communicates openly, proactively, and promptly, with excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you can Add:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in surveying, civil engineering, hydrography, or a related science field
• Certification: NSPS/THSOA Certification as a Hydrographer or Certified Survey Technician
• Licensure: Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) or SurveyorinTraining (SIT)
• More Experience: Field control, topographic, and boundary surveys and CADD/GIS experience

What you will Do:

• Safe operation of small motor vessels in a variety of inland lakes and river environments and occasionally in nearcoastal waters.
• Lead and perform hydrographic surveys using HYPACK software and singlebeam, multibeam, sidescan sonar, subbottom profiler, magnetometer, and other stateoftheart sensors and methods along with GPS positioning, LiDAR, and various Inertial Motion Sensors.
• Perform and check office surveys including reduction of hydrographic surveys using HYPACK and other software, performing least squared and compass rule computations, and volume and area calculations.
• Travel, often on short notice, and work safely in various locations and all types of weather conditions.

Salary range $60,000-$120,000 determined by education, experience, licensure, and knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Check out the Careers page at prairieengineers.com for details on the generous benefits package available, including 401(k), medical insurance, bonus program, and to find out why employees chose to join our team.

Prairie Engineers is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information (including family medical history), or any other legally protected status.

Potential candidates for this position should fill out the application form found at prairieengineers.com and submit with cover letter and resume. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

About Prairie Engineers

Prairie Engineers is a full services engineering, geospatial, and environmental science firm with a goal of delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions and maintaining our natural and built environment. We are a woman-owned firm with offices in Columbia, Hillsboro, Washington, Champaign, and Springfield, Illinois; Keokuk, Iowa; Lenexa, Kansas; Hannibal, Hazelwood, Joplin, and Kansas City, Missouri; and Vicksburg, Mississippi. We provide services to federal, state, and local governments, utilities and industries with capabilities and experience with planning; program management; civil and structural engineering; water resources, transportation, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering; topographic, hydrographic, and land surveying; natural resources management; and construction management. We are committed to providing interesting work opportunities to our team members, to offering flexible work arrangements, and to recognizing personal and professional accomplishments.