Licensed Surveyor in Training

Growing, Succeeding and Designing Our Future Together

We are looking for future team members who are excited to make an impact. As an employee-owned company, we are dedicated to the betterment of our clients, our communities, and our employees. Your contribution is key to the quality-of-service SMA delivers. Throughout your career with SMA, there will be opportunities for you to improve the skills you need to achieve your professional goals.

We encourage you to explore innovative ways to develop solutions while collaborating with team members inside and outside the organization by providing the framework for you to find success.

We don t just talk about being client-focused; the engineers, scientists, surveyors, technicians and other professionals at SMA live and breathe it. After all, we are members of the communities we help.

• Ownership & Impact: Experience the unique advantage of employee ownership, where your contributions directly shape our company s future.
• Community Focus: We re deeply committed to the communities we serve. Our engineers, scientists, surveyors, and professionals are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that make a real difference.
• Growth & Development: We invest in your professional growth, providing opportunities to expand your skills and collaborate with a dynamic team.
• Proven Excellence: With a legacy dating back to 1985, SMA is a leading engineering firm, renowned for our commitment to infrastructure, water safety, environmental remediation, and more.

SMA is currently recruiting for a full-time Surveyor-in-training I/III (LSIT) for the Geomatics Tech Sector in the Albuquerque, NM office. This position is an intermediate-level surveying position. This position will expose the candidate to multiple facets of surveying, working with our Professional Land Surveyors, CAD drafters, and Field Crew Chiefs to understand both field and office practices. The environment is somewhat fast paced requiring the candidate to be a quick learner.

Any project management experience is a plus.

• Must be proficient with the set-up and operation of instrumentation required for the collection or layout of survey data in the field (includes Trimble RTK/GPS, total stations, controllers/data collectors, and automatic levels). Advanced knowledge of the calibration of survey equipment is required regularly.
• Has advanced knowledge in the operation of controllers or data collectors, including control initialization, GPS OPUS techniques, layout techniques (centerline and offset staking, curve staking intersections, radial stake out and basic error analysis).
• Transmits survey data to the proper files in the computer network, and is able to acquire the data for field use.
• Able to send data to the office from remote locations using by laptop and a modem daily.
• Must be proficient at reading plans and calculating centerlines, stationing, horizontal and vertical curve data, utility locations, curb & gutter, and curb returns.
• Perform construction staking activities, including slope stake, utility offsets, streets, and commercial lots.
• Able to prepare neat written field notes, daily records and maintain cut sheets for staking projects.
• Knowledge of survey safety and standard practices.
• Review and prepare proposals under the review of a licensed surveyor.
• Coordinate field work and office work on projects. Must be willing to travel.
• Coordinate billing, change orders, and monitor budgets with the support of a licensed surveyor.
• Review plats, deeds, construction staking notes, etc., with very limited oversight.
• Coordinate schedules for both office and field staff to help ensure timelines are met.
• Understand Civil 3D enough to identify mistakes, must have a good understanding of what final boundary surveys and exhibits should look like, and what a design surface model should look like.
• Must have a strong understanding of interpreting plans, understand how to analyze cross sections, profiles, and details, and be able to QA/QC layout points.
• Boundary-related experience
  - Read and interpret legal descriptions and plats.
• Research legal documents, monument records, and control data from multiple…