Survey Manager

Title: Survey Manager

State Role Title: Architect Engineering Mgr I

Hiring Range: $71,833 - $116,728

Pay Band: 5

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: Salem District Office

Agency Website: www.virginiadot.org/jobs

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

What drives you? Whether it’s knowing the work you do makes a difference, having great work/life balance, working on exciting and challenging projects, leading innovation, and championing change or simply working with a great group of people who are committed to your professional development...At the Virginia Department of Transportation, we have something for YOU!

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating the state’s roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Through the Commonwealth Transportation Board, it also provides funding for airports, rail, and public transportation. Virginia has the third largest state-maintained highway system in the country covering 58,321 miles of interstate, primary, secondary and frontage roads. VDOT has about 7,500 employees making it one of the largest state agencies in Virginia delivering a program that exceeds $5 Billion.

The Salem District maintains more than 9,200 miles of roads in southwestern Virginia in the counties of: Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Henry, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, and Roanoke. The district serves more than 650,000 citizens in these counties and the 14 cities and towns in its boundaries.

Manage and direct district survey operations and staff. Direct and support the professional development of survey personnel. Ensure all surveys are in compliance with VDOT and APELSCIDLA rules and regulations.

Sign and seal designated survey documents for projects within area of professional responsibility. Serve as expert witness in court cases related to survey matters. Analyze survey problems and recommend solutions. Coordinate, monitor and direct the work of consultant surveyors.

Direct multiple survey functions for a wide range of transportation projects from scoping through post-construction. Coordinate and direct the work of survey crews performing location, construction, right of way, utility and condemnation surveys. Perform and update workload assessments and man-power projections. Ensure surveys are conducted in accordance with requirements mandated by state governing board (APELSCIDLA) for surveyors. Establish and perform quality control actions required during product and service development and delivery. Ensure production schedules and budgets are current and projects and services are on time and within budget.

Complete work processes using multiple survey, CADD, and digital terrain modeling software, as well as other non-CADD applications. Train and supervise survey staff in the use of automated programs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of supervisory principles and practices to include hiring, performance management, employee development and discipline.
• Knowledge of VDOT survey and APELSCIDLA standards, specifications, policies, and procedures.
• Land Surveyor's license.
• Valid driver's license.
• Extensive knowledge of engineering and construction survey criteria, methods, standards and specifi-cations.
• Skill in the use of electronic data collection and surveying equipment.
• Ability to collect, analyze and compile data into technical reports and presentations.
• Ability to read and interpret roadway plans, survey plats, and courthouse data.
• Skill in the use of computers and software applications to include survey, CADD, and digital terrain modeling software.
• Considerable knowledge of survey engineering principles as they relate to engineering survey and roadway design.

Additional Considerations

• Experience supervising and managing engineering survey functions in the transportation industry
• Experience developing and reviewing scope of work and fee proposals for survey work
• Skill in the use of MS Office products, MS Teams and SharePoint for communication, collaboration, and workload planning and monitoring
• A combination of training, experience or education in civil engineering, land surveying or related field desired.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information about qualifications and work history provided by the applicant in the application and/or optional resume’. State applications will only be accepted through online submission through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Job Board/ Recruitment Management System (PAGE UP). PAGE UP provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PAGE UP account to check the status of your application for this position.

If selected as a finalist, you will undergo:
• Employment reference check and work history verification
• DMV Records Check
• Fingerprint-based criminal history records check
• Federal DOT pre-employment physical

Additionally, required for CDL holders:
• Full Query drug and alcohol history in FMCSA Clearinghouse – Register at: FMCSA Clearinghouse.
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening

Safety shoes and other personal protective equipment (PPE) required in performance of job duties.

This position is designated as essential and, as such, all duties associated with this job are required during emergency situations which may include, but are not limited to, inclement weather, disaster response and emergency operations.

Performance of these duties may require work outside of normal business hours including nights, weekends and holidays. VDOT will determine when essential positions are required to report.

VDOT utilizes a market based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.

We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.

Contact Information

Name: Teresa Moody

Phone: 540-266-2661

Email: Teresa.Moody@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.