Survey Technician Opportunities in Omaha and Kansas City
Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects, a national multi-disciplined surveying and engineering firm, seeks a full time Survey Technician for our Omaha, NE and our Kansas City, MO office. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, possess an ambitious work ethic, be a great team player who gets along well with others, is willing and able to travel as needed for extended periods, and enjoys working outside year-round, and very dependable and punctual. You may be working on a variety of projects including topographic, boundary, and right of way surveying projects.
Required Skills
- Ability to communicate and express ideas clearly.
- Consistent work effort and dependability.
- Ability to walk across uneven terrain.
- Ability to be outside for extended amounts of time and handle exposure to extreme temperatures.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Availability to travel. 85% travel is expected.
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- Typical rotation, 10-days working, 4-days off.
- Scheduling will be communicated when requested time off is needed.
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- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Willingness to plan, organize, and take initiative.
- Willingness to commit to deadlines.
Required Experience
- Capable of setting up survey equipment, i.e. Total Station and GPS.
- Understanding of how to operate a Total Station.
- Knowledge of how-to setup a ??New Job? in data collector.
- Understanding of how to collect survey data with GPS Rover.
- Knowledge of survey coding system.
- Some understanding of CAD (Microstation/AutoCad) based platforms is a plus.
- Understanding of Trimble Business Center or post-processing software is a plus.
- Knowledge of different field coding (and its use) is a plus.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience utilizing Trimble surveying instrumentation.
About Us:
Wilson & Company has a rich history in planning and design, and the right candidate will become part of our bright future. We provide multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, surveying, mapping, environmental, and planning services, and employ staff throughout 15 offices in 9 states. The firm was founded in 1932 and provides services to a diverse client base including railroads; municipal, state, and federal agencies; energy, industrial, and commercial companies; and private developers.
The cornerstone of our success is Higher Relationships, standards in Discipline, Intensity, Collaboration, Shared Ownership, and Solutions. Discipline is doing it right, with attention to details without exception. Intensity is doing what it takes to meet and exceed expectations. Collaboration is working together and bringing out the best in each other. Shared Ownership means we adopt the goals of others as our own. Finally, Solutions are achieved in a win-win environment. We value this commitment to Higher Relationships with our employees, clients, and the communities where we live and work. And for you, our culture intends to help you achieve personal and professional success. Come grow with us!
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment background checks.
The Company requires full COVID-19 vaccination as a pre-requisite to performing the position you are applying for, unless a legally recognized medical or religious exemption applies (in which case there are COVID testing and masking requirements for the exempted employees). The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.
Wilson & Company, Inc., Engineers & Architects, a national multi-disciplined surveying and engineering firm, seeks a full time Survey Technician for our Omaha, NE and our Kansas City, MO office. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, possess an ambitious work ethic, be a great team player who gets along well with others, is willing and able to travel as needed for extended periods, and enjoys working outside year-round, and very dependable and punctual. You may be working on a variety of projects including topographic, boundary, and right of way surveying projects.
Required Skills
- Ability to communicate and express ideas clearly.
- Consistent work effort and dependability.
- Ability to walk across uneven terrain.
- Ability to be outside for extended amounts of time and handle exposure to extreme temperatures.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Availability to travel. 85% travel is expected.
- Typical rotation, 10-days working, 4-days off.
- Scheduling will be communicated when requested time off is needed.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Willingness to plan, organize, and take initiative.
- Willingness to commit to deadlines.
Required Experience
- Capable of setting up survey equipment, i.e. Total Station and GPS.
- Understanding of how to operate a Total Station.
- Knowledge of how-to setup a ??New Job? in data collector.
- Understanding of how to collect survey data with GPS Rover.
- Knowledge of survey coding system.
- Some understanding of CAD (Microstation/AutoCad) based platforms is a plus.
- Understanding of Trimble Business Center or post-processing software is a plus.
- Knowledge of different field coding (and its use) is a plus.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience utilizing Trimble surveying instrumentation.
About Us:
Wilson & Company has a rich history in planning and design, and the right candidate will become part of our bright future. We provide multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, surveying, mapping, environmental, and planning services, and employ staff throughout 15 offices in 9 states. The firm was founded in 1932 and provides services to a diverse client base including railroads; municipal, state, and federal agencies; energy, industrial, and commercial companies; and private developers.
The cornerstone of our success is Higher Relationships, standards in Discipline, Intensity, Collaboration, Shared Ownership, and Solutions. Discipline is doing it right, with attention to details without exception. Intensity is doing what it takes to meet and exceed expectations. Collaboration is working together and bringing out the best in each other. Shared Ownership means we adopt the goals of others as our own. Finally, Solutions are achieved in a win-win environment. We value this commitment to Higher Relationships with our employees, clients, and the communities where we live and work. And for you, our culture intends to help you achieve personal and professional success. Come grow with us!
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment background checks.
The Company requires full COVID-19 vaccination as a pre-requisite to performing the position you are applying for, unless a legally recognized medical or religious exemption applies (in which case there are COVID testing and masking requirements for the exempted employees). The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.
I'm kinda shocked in this long and fully invested deep description of the company and it's expectations and values, safety, is never mentioned once.
Culture is a hard thing to cultivate.
The day when recruitment was taken away from those who do it and handed over to those who will never do it was a dark day in the history of most professions. Step one. Do not talk down to those being recruited. Do not use flowery terms when straightforwardness would be proper. Do not define what you are attempting to say as that indicates you are the one who cannot communicate rather than the potential recruit being too stupid to understand plain English.
This complaint is not aimed at any one particular employer of skilled surveying staff but to all who fall into these traps of having the unknowing making the decisions.
Sounds like a terrible job with no opportunity to work with a PLS or learn any real skills that can be put forward. They'd be better off to just subcontract the fieldwork to local surveyors.
Sounds like a terrible job with no opportunity to work with a PLS or learn any real skills that can be put forward. They'd be better off to just subcontract the fieldwork to local surveyors.
"Have a suitcase?" "You're hired!" If the company wasn't listed, I'd swear it was an ad from the last company I worked for.
They'd be better off to just subcontract the fieldwork to local surveyors.
They don't want to do that because they can't control the cost. That's why a lot of engineering firms have a surveying department. Control.
Sounds like a terrible job with no opportunity to work with a PLS or learn any real skills that can be put forward.
To be fair, there is a pretty good sized pool of career field hands in their 50's who don't have a place in a lot of organizations because they (the organizations) are unwilling to pay experienced guy/gal wages for someone who doesn't have the real potential (or desire) for upward mobility in the company.
They don't want to do that because they can't control the cost.
Well, yeah. A business that can't control cost is a business that won't be around in eighteen months. I've been on both sides of the table and it's very easy to control subcontractor fees; but the fee you pay a subcontractor and the project cost incurred by using that subcontractor can be vastly different.
I need both fingers and toes to count the number of times a subcontractor has assured me they can deliver drawings in my standards then I get a cad file with everything on Layer 0 with the line types and colors all changed by entity. Or firms that ignore some of the spec in the RFP because "that's not the way they do it around here". Now I have the choice of eating $1,000 worth of billable time to fix the drawing or send it back and have to scramble to find work for the design team that was going to be using the survey files, and screw up my project timeline to get the design to the client.
