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Project Surveyor

Sandis
Oakland, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/18/2026 CLOSED ON 7/17/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Surveyor position at Sandis?

Sandis is currently looking for a Project Surveyor to join our team in Oakland, CA. If you are currently working as a surveyor or drafter and are motivated to expand your career, we would love to connect and discuss the possibilities at Sandis. We think you will love it here!

Why you will love it here: 

  • Professional development, training, and mentorship
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Amazing teams of supportive and hard-working professionals

What You’ll be doing: 

  • Preparing construction staking calculations by reading plans and interpreting CAD files.
  • Creating mapping deliverables including boundary surveys, ALTA surveys, topographic surveys, plats, and legal descriptions.
  • Post-processing field data collected via the total station, GPS, levels, 3D laser scanners, and unmanned aerial systems.
  • Drafting aerial surveys from our UAV (Drone)
  • Solve problems using exciting new technology.
  • Opportunity to work outside as a field surveyor.
  • Have fun while you build a strong career 

Qualifications:

  • 5 years of office surveying experience
  • B.S. in a related field is preferred.
  • Knowledgeable of AutoCAD Bluebeam, Pix4d and Leica-based scanning software
  • Experience with survey equipment, such as GPS, Robotic, and Total Station
  • Pursuing FAA Pilot License
  • LSIT Preferred

Sandis Benefits: 

  • Competitive salaries, end-of-year bonuses, and 401k
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance including life and long-term disability
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for health care, parking and transit, and dependent care expenses
  • Starting paid time off at 24 days – 16 PTO and 8 paid Holidays
  • 3 days paid bereavement; 10 days paid jury duty
  • In-office coffee and snacks
  • Education reimbursement and professional license program, Paid annual dues for professional and societal organizations
  • A salary increase for attaining P.E. or PLS
  • Company-sponsored sports teams and clubs, Sandis Brews, frequent company lunches, and philanthropic activities.  


Sandis is a professional services corporation specializing in civil engineering (Land Development Design), traffic engineering, land surveying, and planning, but we are much more than the services we offer. Sandis is about reliability, experience, and expertise. For over 60years, we have been committed to innovation, excellence, leadership, and environmental stewardship. Our job and passion are to provide the foundation for the future to be built upon, always improving the communities where we live, work, and play. We service private and public clients in the high-tech, research and redevelopment, laboratory, corporate, commercial, residential, healthcare, academic, hospitality, civic, justice, and public works sectors. We are a team of experts who care about the people we work with and for.

Sandis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Salary : $35 - $62

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