PAS128 Utility Surveys
Survey Manager
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Survey Manager
Survey Manager - Permanent from £48,000
Location: Woking Posted on: 30 June 2026
About the Role
An Exceptional Career Opportunity for an Experienced Survey Manager.
Are you an experienced utility survey professional ready to lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team across some of the UK’s most challenging utility environments? We are looking for a Survey Manager to:
- Support quality assurance
- Strengthen technical capability
- Improve processes
- Help deliver exceptional service across the business
This is a key management role responsible for:
- Driving high performance of the survey team
- Overseeing quality assurance
- Supporting staff development and training
- Delivering specialist surveys
- Responding to technical client queries
- Shaping the future direction of the company by introducing new technologies, methodologies, and processes
Responsibilities
In this position, your key responsibilities will be:
- Uphold the company values: Trust, Integrity, Commitment, Respect, and Fun
- Make balanced decisions considering safety, integrity, quality, improvement, and cost
- Improve efficiency and capability of survey staff through:
- Training
- Mentoring
- Continual assessment
- Constructive feedback
- Develop survey methodologies, systems, and processes to maximise efficiency while maintaining a strong commitment to quality
- Provide clear data and insight on:
- Progression of the survey team
- Performance
- Development needs
- Allocate survey projects and support delivery planning
- Respond to technical questions from clients and colleagues
- Represent the business professionally in:
- Client interactions
- Site interactions
- Internal interactions
- Undertake specialist projects leveraging your technical experience and industry knowledge
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Requirements
We’re looking for someone who is technically strong, dependable, proactive, and highly professional. To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
- Significant experience (six years or more) delivering:
- Complex utility survey projects on time and in full
- Both site work and office-based processing
- Experience with QCF Level 5 or equivalent is desirable
- A proven track record of training, mentoring, assessing, and developing survey team members
- Excellent knowledge of core utility surveying equipment, including:
- EML (Electromagnetic Location)
- GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar)
- Total stations
- GNSS positioning equipment
- Strong CAD capability, ideally experience with BricsCAD
- Proficiency in GPR processing software, preferably IDS IQMaps
- Strong capability with survey processing software such as N4ce
- Full understanding of PAS 128 and practical application thereof
- Experience managing client interactions, including resolving challenges and understanding:
- Commercial implications of technical decisions
- Excellent health and safety awareness, with ability to promote safe working practices across the team
- Strong skills in:
- Report writing
- Technical review
- Assessment
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Benefits
You will be joining a company where:
- Technical excellence is valued
- Career development is supported
- Your contribution is recognised
We offer:
- Salary from £48,000 per annum (depending on experience)
- Industry-specific training, including:
- NVQ
- CSCS
- NRSWA
- First Aid
- Advanced GPR training
- Mobile phone
- Laptop
- 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Group life scheme
- Employee benefits scheme
- Working away bonus pay
- Travel time pay scheme
- Enhanced night rates
- Social events
- Highly rewarding Refer a Friend scheme
- Full PPE provided
About Macleod Simmonds
Macleod Simmonds is a multidisciplinary Geospatial Consultancy, deploying cutting-edge digital mapping technology and innovative methodologies on some of the UK’s highest-profile infrastructure projects.
We’re an equal opportunities employer looking for talented professionals. If you would like to explore this exceptional opportunity, please submit your CV in PDF or DOCX format (max file size: 3MB).
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