Survey Technician - Sunshine Coast

Survey Technician Up to $105,000  AUD + superannuation + serviced vehicle

Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Company

Our client is a certified 'Great Place to Work' and due to growth, they have a great career opportunity available for a Senior Engineering Surveyor to join their highly professional and skilled Survey team.

This is a full-time role working on civil infrastructure projects throughout Sunshine Coast region, working on a multi-stage TMR projects that includes field and office responsibilities, and development of junior team-members.

Our client is a family-built company with over 35 years of experience in delivering excellence across civil construction, mining, and infrastructure. The company doesn't just build projects—they build careers.

• Be part of a down-to-earth, supportive team that values diversity and inclusion
• Benefit from career growth and tailored development opportunities
• Enjoy personalised rewards and recognition for your hard work
• Work on impactful projects that shape communities
• Collaborate with passionate people who bring a "boots & all" attitude to everything they do

The Benefits

• Up to $105,000 + superannuation + serviced vehicle
• Long term project work
• Pay to Pass, after 6 months they can seek approval to enrol in higher education and for every course they pass we will pay their study fees.
• Partnership with UniSQ, lecturers present latest surveying techniques and technology to the team in quarterly presentations.
• Company carnival invitation - family day in Gold Coast, carnival rides and games all hosted by the company.
• Company Christmas Party invitation (spouses invited too) - hosted late November usually in Brisbane, discounts on accommodation, bus transport back to region post-event. Always a fun night out with 1000+ attendees.
• Professional development planning streamlined professional development goals to be promoted internally.
• Employee Health and Wellbeing Program
• Flexible and Inclusive Workforce

The Role

Monday-Friday, 6:30am - 4:30pm (50 hour per week)

Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Infrastructure project

• Support the accurate delivery of survey services on civil construction projects by assisting with set-out, pick-up (as-built), and data collection activities.
• Responsible for setting up, operating, and maintaining survey equipment, and for recording measurements and observations based on instrument readings.
• Contribute to the preparation of digital plans and models under the guidance of more senior survey staff
• Survey Set-Out & Pick-Up - Conduct set-out and pick-up surveys using total stations, GNSS, and other field equipment.
• Accurately mark out site features and recover field data for as-builts and QA records.
• Data Handling & Equipment Operation.
• Drawing & Design Support
• Field Equipment Maintenance:
• Plan Interpretation & Compliance
• Site Communication & Support
• Coordination & Scheduling

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Ideally looking for people that have experience working on TMR projects, roads or highways
• Trimble or Leica
• Sound understanding of surveying principles, processes, and field techniques.
• Experience operating and maintaining survey equipment such as total stations, GNSS receivers, and digital levels.
• 12d - desirable not essential
• Tertiary survey qualification - desirable not essential