Select Plant Hire
Senior Land Surveyor
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Select Plant Hire | Laing O'Rourke
Location: National
Permanent | 40 hours per week | Monday - Friday
Select Plant Hire are looking for an experienced Senior Land Surveyor to join our growing surveying team, supporting some of the UK's most complex infrastructure, rail, energy and construction projects.
This is a hands-on technical role for a surveyor who enjoys working with the latest technology, delivering accurate survey solutions and seeing projects through from start to finish. You'll typically remain with a project for its full lifecycle, whether that's a few weeks or several months.
What You'll Be Doing
- Carrying out topographical, engineering and as-built surveys.
- Establishing and maintaining primary and secondary control networks.
- Setting out and dimensional control.
- Laser scanning and point cloud processing.
- Producing survey drawings and models.
- Earthworks quantification and reporting.
- Working closely with site engineering and project teams.
- Supporting digital engineering and BIM workflows.
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What we're looking for
- Minimum 3 years' experience in land or engineering surveying.
- Strong experience using Leica equipment and software.
- Knowledge of Cyclone 3DR.
- Experience with laser scanning, control networks and setting out.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and survey data.
- Degree, NVQ, TSA qualification or equivalent.
What's in it for you?
- Company car or car allowance.
- Travel, accommodation and expenses covered where required.
- Mobility support for longer-term project assignments.
- Flexible travel arrangements.
- Flexible approach to home working when project commitments allow.
- Opportunity to work on major projects including HS2, East West Rail, Great Grid Upgrade, Oxford Ellison Stansted Airport and more.
- Open to sponsorship.
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
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Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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