Survey Party Chief

Play an integral role in delivering complex industrial construction projects by leading field survey crews that provide the precise layout, measurement, and verification required for safe, accurate, and efficient construction. As a Survey Party Chief, you will coordinate day-to-day survey activities, translate engineering information into accurate field layout, and ensure survey data supports construction priorities, quality requirements, and project schedules.

Working directly with survey management, field engineering, construction supervision, quality, and multidisciplinary project teams, you will provide hands-on technical leadership in the field. Your expertise will directly influence construction accuracy, productivity, dimensional control, and successful project delivery.

Purpose of the role

The Survey Party Chief is responsible for leading field survey activities that support construction execution on industrial projects. This role provides technical direction to survey personnel and ensures construction layout, control, measurements, verification, and as-built information are completed accurately and in accordance with project requirements.

You will plan daily survey assignments, establish priorities based on construction needs, review field data, and help resolve technical challenges as conditions evolve. Through strong field leadership and collaboration, you will ensure survey services provide construction teams with accurate, timely information that supports safe and productive execution.

You will be responsible for

• Leading daily field survey activities and providing technical direction to survey crew personnel.
• Planning and prioritizing survey assignments in alignment with construction schedules, work fronts, and field requirements.
• Performing and overseeing construction layout for civil, structural, foundations, underground utilities, equipment, piping, and other project scopes as required.
• Establishing, maintaining, and verifying project survey control points, benchmarks, coordinates, and elevations.
• Performing precise measurements, alignments, elevations, dimensional checks, and construction verification activities.
• Reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, models, coordinates, and project documentation to establish field survey requirements.
• Coordinating closely with field engineering, construction supervision, and quality personnel to ensure survey information supports project execution.
• Identifying discrepancies between engineering documentation and actual site conditions and communicating findings to the appropriate project stakeholders.
• Reviewing survey calculations, field notes, electronic data, and deliverables for accuracy and completeness.
• Supporting dimensional control, installation verification, as-built surveys, and construction turnover documentation.
• Assigning field activities and providing technical guidance, coaching, and instruction to survey crew members.
• Monitoring survey work to ensure compliance with project procedures, technical standards, and established field practices.
• Troubleshooting field conditions, survey equipment, control issues, and technical challenges that may affect construction activities.
• Maintaining accurate and traceable survey records, data files, field documentation, and as-built information.
• Coordinating survey requirements with other construction disciplines to minimize conflicts and maintain efficient field execution.
• Promoting safe work practices and ensuring field survey activities comply with applicable HSE requirements and site procedures.
• Supporting continuous improvement in survey methods, digital workflows, field technology, data quality, and construction execution.

About us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

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What you'll bring to the role

You are an experienced construction survey professional who combines strong technical capability with hands-on field leadership. You understand how accurate survey control and timely field information affect construction quality, productivity, and schedule performance, and you are comfortable directing survey activities in a dynamic industrial construction environment.

Key qualifications include:

• University degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant education, trade training, and experience.
• Typically 7+ years of relevant surveying, construction surveying, dimensional control, or related field experience.
• Demonstrated experience working as a Party Chief, Lead Surveyor, senior survey crew member, or equivalent role on construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of construction surveying principles, control networks, layout techniques, elevations, coordinates, dimensional verification, and as-built surveying.
• Experience supporting industrial construction, EPC, energy, chemicals, power generation, LNG, petrochemical, manufacturing, mining, infrastructure, or major capital projects is highly desirable.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, site plans, models, coordinates, elevations, and construction documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of modern survey equipment and digital field data collection systems, including total stations, GNSS/GPS equipment, levels, and related survey technologies.
• Ability to perform and verify survey calculations and recognize potential errors before they affect construction.
• Experience leading field survey crews and coordinating daily work priorities with construction and engineering personnel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to address changing field conditions and construction requirements.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work collaboratively with survey management, field engineering, construction supervision, quality, and craft personnel.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, reliable, and traceable survey information.
• Commitment to safety, quality, technical accuracy, teamwork, and operational excellence.

Benefits

Feel the energy at Worley with access to a range of benefits including: paid-time off, holiday pay (usually 8 per year in the US), and eligibility to participate in the medical, life, dental, and vision insurance plans, as well as 401K plan.

Apply today

If you are ready to lead field survey activities that provide the precision and control essential to successful industrial construction, we encourage you to apply. Join a global organization where your surveying expertise, field leadership, and commitment to accuracy will directly contribute to safe, efficient, and high-quality project delivery.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.

And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

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