Hybrid Surveyor bei Flintco, LLC

Founded in 1908, Flintco now employs more than 750 people in 10 cities serving clients in healthcare, renewable energy, education, hospitality, sports and industrial. Flintco also self-performs concrete, steel erection and excavation. Nothing matters more to us than the quality and growth of our people. Our teams are smart, humble and disciplined.  Flintco is recognized for its commitment to safety and quality, using Lean principles as a guide to continuous improvement. The five guiding principles of our Ethos are: Safety, Integrity, Quality, Accountability and Honesty. We live it every day.

Job Summary    

Responsible for determining, marking and maintaining horizontal and vertical control of a project, and assisting in supervision of subcontractor’s work as assigned.  Other positions which may report to a Surveyor: Carpenter or Apprentice, to assist in layout. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities                                                                                              

All duties and responsibilities include the following, however, other duties may be assigned. To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Study and analyze construction drawings to confirm or otherwise establish the planned layout dimensions and elevations for the project.
• Inform Superintendent of any variations in the project dimensions and elevations, and assist company and subcontractor personnel to (1) understand the layout, and (2) identify the precise locations of the elements being installed.
• Survey, verify and mark actual lines and elevations to provide visual benchmarks for the elements being installed by using measuring tape, electronic distance measuring devices, theodolites, and total station instruments.
• Measure dimensions and elevations of installed work, marking As-Built Drawings to indicate actual dimensions and elevations, using measuring devices, theodolites, and total station instruments.
• Other functions as may be required or assigned by Project Superintendent or other authorized individual, including making suggestions of alternative construction methods and techniques, and/or developing interpretations of vague or conflicting information, etc.

Management Responsibilities

None

Knowledge/Skills/Ability

Working knowledge of Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebraic formulas and ability to apply those formulas, and perform mathematic calculations to determine lines, grades, points and elevations. Ability to work within precise standards of accuracy.  Skill to use transit, level, measuring tape and conventional surveying tools.  Knowledge of standard surveying practices. Knowledge of typical construction techniques and applications.  Skill in comparing and assessing differences in size, shape and form of lines, figures, and objects. Skill in observing two dimensional drawings or pictures and understanding how they will look in three dimensions as solid objects. Ability to read and interpret construction documents.

Education                   

High School Degree or vocational training or an equivalent combination of education, technical training and experience.

Job Location

Florence, Texas

Experience

Adequate experience in layout and surveying or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Physical Requirements                 

• Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
• May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.
• Observing (seeing well, either naturally or with correction), as in reading detailed blueprints, drawings, sketches and plans at close proximity.
• Seeing and observing at a distance as in making visual assessments of the exact location of a marker when viewed through a surveyor’s instrument.

Special Job Dimensions

The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free.  While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to:  moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions.  The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.

* NOTE – Where allowed, employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.