Senior Survey Project Manager
About this role
Senior Survey Project Manager
Department: Survey/Geomatics
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Manassas, VA
Compensation: $115,000 - $140,000 / year
Description
Ready to help shape communities one project at a time?
What You'll Do:
- Meet with prospective clients, prepare proposals, and establish budgets and schedules.
- Maintain close liaison with clients to resolve all project questions, such as, but not limited to, technical requirements, completion requirements and billing inquiries.
- Review with manager all project changes, pending or anticipated alterations to the contract, additional work requests, and all other factors, which may significantly affect staffing requirements or budget.
- Supervise work of all project personnel to ensure that it meets the highest professional standards.
- Coordinate with other internal departments to meet project requirements.
- Define the scope of multiple, complex projects and develop plan to accomplish projects.
- Monitor progress toward deliverable schedules.
- Compile project status reports.
- Review job cost sheets and prepare monthly billings.
- Ensure assigned projects stay within budget allocation.
- Participate in and formulate marketing presentations and attend marketing meetings.
- Secure repeat business from existing clients and identify new clients.
- Supervise the work of project managers when assigned.
- Ensure timely services, RDA QA/QC compliant document delivery by personal oversight or effective delegation of task management.
What You'll Need:
- 8+ years of combined field and office surveying experience
- Professional Land Surveyor (LS/PLS) license preferred
- Proven experience managing survey projects, schedules, and client relationships
- Strong knowledge of boundary, topographic, route, and construction surveying.
- Ability to lead teams and mentor junior staff
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Why Join RDA?
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan; Roth Contributions
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability
- Generous PTO and 8 federal holidays + 1 floating holiday
- Parental leave
- Supportive team culture
Applicants that require an employment visa sponsorship now or in the future will not be considered.
Pay Transparency
Company at a glance
Great infrastructure does more than support communities—it shapes how people live, move, and connect every day. By bringing together expertise across transportation, water, energy, environmental, and community systems, we help turn big ideas into lasting solutions that make a meaningful difference.
Trilon is building a family of best-in-class consulting companies focused on planning, engineering, and delivering sustainable infrastructure projects. Through investments in talent, technology, and targeted acquisitions, we help communities deliver critical infrastructure faster, more affordably, and with measurable impact.
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- Roth contributions
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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