Survey Manager, Infrastructure

Are you a survey professional who thrives leading teams through complex construction challenges? We’re looking for a Survey Manager to support a major GO Rail project in Oshawa, serving as the on-site technical lead for all survey operations. You’ll act as the project’s survey subject matter expert - guiding layout, verification, data collection, and as-built activities from initial scouting through final documentation.

This position plays a central role in planning survey strategies, developing equipment and technology workflows, and ensuring field teams have the tools, resources, and technical support needed to deliver high-quality work.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day survey activities, coordinating tasks and ensuring resources are deployed effectively across the project.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, and training of new survey team members.
• Promote a strong field-based safety culture and reinforce safe work practices.
• Provide informal performance feedback, technical coaching, and daily direction to crew members.
• Assist surveyors with field challenges, interpreting requirements to ensure accurate layout and data collection.
• Communicate survey workload needs to field supervisors and project teams, ensuring appropriate resourcing and support.
• Offer insights that help supervisors plan staffing and resource allocation for upcoming scopes of work.
• Coordinate daily use, setup, and basic calibration of survey equipment.
• Monitor and maintain all project survey tools including total stations, GPS / RTK units, UAVs, and machine control components. Coach the team on equipment handling and troubleshooting.
• Work with equipment and fleet teams to support GPS machine control systems and UAV operations.
• Identify opportunities for equipment upgrades, workflow improvements, and technology enhancements to increase accuracy and efficiency.
• Lead execution of core survey tasks : control setup, topo surveys, layout, as-builts, and other required data capture.
• Ensure survey activities align with project requirements, permanent and temporary design integration, and construction methods.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to refine survey methods and enhance data quality.

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Working Conditions

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Additional Information

Ledcor builds and maintains infrastructure in various industries including oil and gas, transportation, and mining. We’re experts in all infrastructure construction and maintenance related projects. Our vast projects include : full-scale contract mining, earthworks, foundations, highways, bridges, roads, waterways and resources, airports, rapid transit, underground utilities, pipelines, independent power projects and site reclamation.

Our workplace culture has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace in North America.

Our competitive total rewards package provides compensation and benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing. We offer exciting, challenging work with opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge.

Employment Equity

At Ledcor we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion should be part of everything we do. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.

Our True Blue team consists of individuals from all backgrounds who contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to Ledcor. We are committed to continuing to build on our culture of empowerment, inclusion and belonging.

Adjustments will be provided in all parts of our hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance by submitting a request via email. For more information about Ledcor’s Inclusion and Diversity initiatives, please visit our I&D page.

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