Engineering Surveyor

About the role

Job Title :
Engineering Surveyor

Location :
Aberdeen

Project Type :
Energy

Company :
Balfour Beatty Group

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, support communities, and enable economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high‑quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career that you can be proud of as part of an award‑winning team.

Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Engineering Surveyor to build new futures.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well‑established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large‑scale critical infrastructure projects in Scotland, you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

To support the project team in delivery of land survey requirements for the project.

• Assist project team in the acquisition of asset, topographical, production or as‑built surveys and for the provision of control and setting‑out on the project.
• Assist in the processing, calculation and verifying of subcontractor production.
• Assist in production and issuing of machine control models, or checking models produced by subcontractors.
• Collation of as‑built information from various subcontractors.
• Management of survey control stations throughout the construction phase.
• Assist in aligning engineering staff to standardised survey requirements, to ensure consistency throughout delivery.
• Management of survey equipment, ensuring annual inspections are completed on time and on site checks are completed at the required frequencies.
• Accountable for the implementation and management of surveying requirements for the project.
• Establish and manage a survey control network throughout the site.
• Implement standardised surveying requirements and ensure this is shared within internal team and subcontractors undertaking work on site.
• Assist in valuation calculation of subcontractor completed works, through verification of production rates as required by the internal commercial teams.
• Assist in the production, collation, storage and outputs of as‑built information as the project progresses, including production of information required as part of the quality assurance process.
• Accountable for the control and maintenance of all survey equipment in line with the Company’s procedures.
• Produce internally, or check externally any machine control models being used on the project, ensuring that these are current and issued for construction.
• Demonstrate the Balfour Beatty Core behaviours.
• Collaborate relentlessly.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.

• Knowledge and experience in current survey software, including production and management of machine control models.
• Experience in substantial earthworks projects.
• High levels of experience in modern survey equipment, including setting up of base stations for use of GPS equipment shared between multiple stakeholders.
• Prepared to assist in developing engineering staff to ensure they are equipped to complete survey tasks to a defined process.

• Be part of a major energy infrastructure investment that’s shaping the UK’s low‑carbon future.
• Work on challenging, high‑profile projects with the support of a skilled, multi‑disciplinary team.
• Join a culture of learning, improvement, and excellence—where your voice makes a difference.
• Enjoy a competitive salary, development opportunities, and a flexible, inclusive working environment.

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities,…