Associate Land Surveyor

Overview

NV5 is a leading provider of tech-enabled engineering, testing, inspection, and consulting solutions for the built environment. We specialize in engineering design, asset management, and geospatial data analytics to support infrastructure resilience and building systems performance throughout the entire asset lifecycle.

NV5’s 5,000 consulting engineers, inspectors, and analysts play a critical role in shaping our communities through resilient infrastructure that will stand the test of time and efficient smart building systems for optimized facility environments.

Associate Land Surveyor – Palm Desert, CA (100% In-Office)

Join our team in beautiful Palm Desert, California
, where we're seeking an experienced Associate Land Surveyor to play a key leadership role within our surveying operations. This is a full-time, 100% in-office position offering the opportunity to work closely with our Survey Manager on a diverse portfolio of projects.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing professional oversight and review of survey work products, coordinating office and field survey activities, and helping ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget. You'll serve as a technical resource to the team while supporting the efficient execution of daily operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and oversee survey work products to ensure accuracy, quality, and compliance.
• Manage and coordinate office and field survey workloads under the direction of the Survey Manager.
• Support project planning, scheduling, and budget management.
• Collaborate with project teams to deliver high-quality survey services.
• Assist in maintaining operational efficiency and meeting client expectations.

If you're a motivated surveying professional looking for an opportunity to take on a leadership role and make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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• Provide professional & technical oversight and guidance
• Perform project research, logistics, and management, review plats, and prepare legal descriptions.
• Adhere to the company’s policies, safety plan, and the project safety plan. Perform quality control checks on each project, including computations, field book formats, and content.
• Supervise project field crew(s) and/or serve as field crew chief
• Work on control, boundary, subdivision, topographic, and design surveys, ALTA /NSPS standards, aerial mapping surveys, and may also perform hydrographic surveying.
• Accurately run and adjust survey measuring instruments, including digital levels, GPS equipment, and total stations with electronic data‑collecting capabilities.
• Understand and identify basic sources of measurement errors.
• Perform mathematical calculations and check field data.
• Perform data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks, and staking.
• Computations using survey programs and Civil3D.
• Perform other duties as assigned

• LSIT Required
• Professional Land Surveyor registration certification is desired.
• Must be able to work in the office 100% in Palm Desert, CA
• A minimum of 5 years of surveying and mapping experience is required
• Relocation assistance will be provided for the right candidate
• 3+ years of project management experience preferred
• Experience in the use of lidar scanning (terrestrial, mobile, aerial) data registration/extraction
• UAV / UAS operation, data acquisition, and data reduction experience a plus
• Must possess good interpersonal skills and effective written and oral communication skills
• Right-of-way mapping and parcel plat drafting.
• Must be proficient in the use of total stations, GPS receivers, and data collectors, and GPS reduction software.
• Experience in Civil3D with demonstrated survey drafting skills required; excellent Civil3D skills a plus
• Proficiency in Trimble Business Center, Star Net, or similar survey processing software.
• Ability to read and understand survey drawings, plans & specifications.
• Knowledge of principles of monumentation, staking, and marking.
• Hydrographic surveying experience is a plus.
• Must be proficient with MS Word and Excel.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that an…