Surveyor - Civil (RAIL)

Role Overview

Setting-Out and Survey Control

• Establish and maintain survey control points, benchmarks, and reference grids across the site and alignment.
• Set out alignments, levels, gridlines, and reference points for earthworks, structures, drainage, depot, and online buildings.
• Conduct topographic, cross-section, volume, and quantity surveys for construction planning and progress measurement.
• Verify contractor survey team setting-out before construction of key elements.

As-Built Verification and Monitoring

• Perform as-built surveys to verify that constructed works conform to approved designs and specified tolerances.
• Prepare and issue as-built drawings and survey records for QA/QC verification and handover documentation.
• Support settlement, deformation, and alignment monitoring for structures, earthworks, and track-related works.

Data Management and Reporting

• Process and manage survey data using relevant software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D or equivalent.
• Maintain coordinate registers, survey records, field books, calculation sheets, and instrument logs.
• Prepare survey reports and progress or quantity records for project management, QA/QC, and commercial teams.

Coordination and Compliance

• Coordinate setting-out, verification, and monitoring activities with site engineers, QA/QC teams, and contractor survey teams.
• Ensure survey work complies with project specifications, coordinate systems, datums, and applicable standards.
• Maintain, calibrate, and care for survey instruments and report defects or calibration issues.
• Support investigation and resolution of survey queries, discrepancies, and non-conformances.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of five to eight years of construction or site surveying experience, including setting-out and as-built survey work.
• Proficiency with total stations, GNSS/GPS, levels, and survey or CAD software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Middle East or UAE experience is highly advantageous.
• Rail or major infrastructure project experience is preferable.

Education

• Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related field, or demonstrated equivalent experience.

Onboarding Requirement

• Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.