Surveyor/Field Technician

Are you a experienced surveyor looking for work life balance? Looking for flexible working arrangements and a great supportive team? Then this is the role for you.

Sonto is on a mission.

We are on a mission to deliver exceptional surveying services in South-East Queensland that also to provide a refined business model, giving opportunity for every team member to achieve professional and personal success. As a team of high-performing individuals, Sonto delivers a standard of surveying services that our clients can depend on and are carried out consistently with meticulous attention to quality. Every team member of Sonto is valued for their contribution and ownership of their role and responsibilities. Each team member at Sonto is equally responsible for the collective success of the business and is encouraged and supported to achieve their own career success. Our greater vision is to become a company that creates a difference and has a positive impact on our clients, our team, the environment, and our broader community.

The role offered is to join our field survey team as a valued team member. To empower the company with field-based surveying capabilities for design, construction and engineering-based survey projects. As a Survey Field Technician for Sonto, you will be required to carry out field surveys, meticulously, to the standards established by the company and adhere to the company quality assurance systems. You'll be required to travel to a variety of job sites, carry out best practice field survey processes and calculate survey data onsite to ensure the project is delivered without error and within expected project deadlines.

Some of your duties will Include:

• Calculating & adapting field files for the survey.
• Uploading and downloading project files and data.
• Carrying out best practice resections.
• Setting out points, offsets, lines, marks, profiles, pins, pegs including any repair work as required.
• Picking up property data for contour and detail projects.
• Collection and management of field data.
• Maintaining best practice survey data storage and file saving.
• Reducing and processing survey data.
• Company QA processes and industry guidelines adhered to.
• Identify & escalate any non-conformance or processes that require corrective action.
• Good communication with client (where required).
• Good communication with Sonto team members.

Your workload will consist of field-based surveys for building setouts (both residential and commercial), contour and detail surveys, civil surveys, design and engineering surveys. This role will require you to work largely autonomously, but at times you will need to work collaboratively with the other field crews, draftspersons as well as senior licenced surveyors. You will be required to practice diligent quality assurance processes to ensure field surveys are error-free and carried out to the standard of quality set by the company.

This role is best suited to a candidate with previous experience in surveying in the residential and commercial construction industry. You will bring your experience and attention to detail to this role. The successful candidate will have career progression opportunities and will be adamantly supported by the whole Sonto Team. The successful candidate will be provided with training and support to complete the requirements of this role & to further develop their skills to become an exceptional surveyor.

Sonto offers highly competitive compensation models as well as unique and individualized benefits including flexible working arrangements of either, 4 day working week, 9 day fortnight or monthly RDO.

To be considered for this role you must hold a valid drives licence and general construction Induction card.

We are open to surveyors with registration with the SBQ as well.

Please apply below and include a few sentences about what attracts you to this role and why you'd like to join Sonto.