Survey Tech VIII

Growing, Succeeding and Designing Our Future Together

We are looking for future team members who are excited to make an impact. As an employee-owned company, we are dedicated to the betterment of our clients, our communities, and our employees. Your contribution is key to the quality of service SMA delivers. Throughout your career with SMA, there will be opportunities for you to improve the skills you need to achieve your professional goals. We encourage you to explore innovative ways to develop solutions while collaborating with team members inside and outside the organization by providing the framework for you to find success.

We don't just talk about being client-focused; the engineers, scientists, surveyors, technicians and other professionals at SMA live and breathe it. After all, we are members of the communities we help.

Why Join Us?

• Ownership & Impact: Experience the unique advantage of employee ownership, where your contributions directly shape our company's future.
• Community Focus: We're deeply committed to the communities we serve. Our engineers, scientists, surveyors, and professionals are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that make a real difference.
• Growth & Development: We invest in your professional growth, providing opportunities to expand your skills and collaborate with a dynamic team.
• Proven Excellence: With a legacy dating back to 1985, SMA is a leading engineering firm in New Mexico, renowned for our commitment to infrastructure, water safety, environmental remediation, and more.

SUMMARY:

Souder, Miller & Associates is hiring a full-time Survey Tech VIII (Senior Survey Technician) for the Farmington, New Mexico, office. The Senior Survey Technician will assist the Project Manager with daily surveying tasks and project management in the field and/or office. The Senior Survey Technician is responsible for leading and performing advanced field survey assignments, including boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, construction staking, utility, control, and related survey work. This position provides technical expertise in the use of survey equipment, data collection, field calculations, plan interpretation, construction layout, and survey data management. The Senior Survey Technician works closely with licensed surveyors, project managers, engineers, drafters, crew members, clients, and contractors to ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality survey deliverables. This role requires strong field judgment, attention to detail, safety awareness, effective communication, and the ability to coordinate survey activities in a fast-paced project environment. New and varied assignments may be made frequently, requiring flexibility in travel, self-directed learning skills, and heightened social interaction. Field assignments can be frequent, and duration can extend beyond one week.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead, coordinate, and perform field survey activities for boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, construction staking, utility, and control surveys.
• Operate, set up, troubleshoot, and maintain survey equipment including RTK/GPS, robotic total stations, total stations, controllers/data collectors, automatic levels, and related field instrumentation.
• Perform routine calibration checks and ensure survey equipment is properly maintained, secured, and ready for field use.
• Use Trimble and related survey technology, including robotic total stations, Trimble data collectors, and Trimble GPS equipment, to collect, process, and lay out survey data accurately.
• Perform control initialization, GPS observations, OPUS processing, centerline and offset staking, curve staking, intersection layout, radial stakeout, and basic field error analysis.
• Review plans, specifications, plats, legal descriptions, and construction documents to determine survey requirements and prepare for field assignments.
• Calculate centerlines, stationing, horizontal and vertical curve data, utility locations, curb and gutter, curb returns, grades, offsets, and other layout information for field staking.
• Perform construction staking activities including slope staking, utility offsets, roadway staking, site improvements, commercial lots, and related construction layout tasks.
• Transmit, download, upload, and organize survey data in designated computer network locations and project folders; obtain and prepare data needed for field use.
• Send field data, notes, and project information to the office from remote locations using available technology and company procedures.
• Prepare clear and accurate written field notes, daily records, sketches, cut sheets, and documentation for survey and staking projects.
• Maintain organized project files and ensure survey records, field data, and supporting documents are complete, accurate, and stored properly.
• Provide guidance and technical direction to survey crew members, drafters, and junior staff as needed to support project completion.
• Communicate and collaborate with project managers, engineers, survey staff, clients, contractors, and other project team members regarding field conditions, schedules, and project requirements.
• Follow company survey standards, quality control procedures, and safety practices while working in the field and office.
• Travel to project sites as required, including remote locations and overnight assignments when necessary.
• Prepares neat written field notes and daily records. Maintains cut sheets for staking projects.
• Knowledge of survey safety and standard practices, per the SMA Survey Manual.

Travel up to 25%.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

At SMA, we reward talent with competitive salaries and benefits that reflect your experience and contributions:

• Salary Range: $87,000 to $100,000 per year.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K Retirement Plan, Employee Stock Options (ESOP), Life/ADD Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care, and more.
• Paid Time Off & Wellness Programs: Generous PTO, flexible work schedules, wellness initiatives, and more.
• Professional Growth: Tuition/Student Loan reimbursement program, professional dues, and opportunities for advancement within the company.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of 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 to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able and willing to frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

WHY SOUDER, MILLER & ASSOCIATES:

SMA has been inspiring engineers, surveyors, and scientists to deliver innovative solutions since 1985. SMA is the third largest engineering firm in New Mexico. Whether it is designing public roads and interstates, threading fiber-optic conduits in between underground utilities across an urban intersection, choosing the most effective method to remediate contaminated soil, master planning mixed development, or ensuring access to safe drinking water by identifying water sources and operating treatment facilities, our employees demonstrate their commitment to our clients by building a partnership and investing in the success of every project.