May 13, 2026

Surveyor Foreman

Job Description

As a Surveyor Foreman for our Bison North Dakota Project, you will contribute to our team by:

Meeting the following roles and responsibilities:

• Effective use of verbal and written communication – good interpersonal skills.

• Work safely at all times and promote safety to others around you.

• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.

• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.

• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.

• Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.

Possess ability to integrate design standards and shop drawings into field layout.

• Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.

• Lay out grids and determine horizontal and vertical controls.

• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.

• Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.

• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items.

• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.

• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.

• Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.

• Record survey measurements and descriptive data using notes, drawings, and sketches.

• Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.

• Search out and recover stakes, marks, and other monuments.

• Perform quality work as determined by the project specifications.

• Prioritize tasks according to job schedule and workload.

• Participate fully in health, safety, quality, and environmental processes.

• Must be willing to provide guidance and on the job training and mentoring to other crafts.

• Participate fully in health, safety, quality, and environmental processes.

• Conduct oneself as a Role Model when representing PCL and in contact with project and client personnel, coworkers, other contractors and subs, and the public and community.

Must have minimal of 4 years or more with verifiable work experience

Must pass pre-employment drugtest and alcohol test

OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certified or Safety Essential

 

PAY

$41.00

PER DIEM

$120.00

HOURS

50+