Licensed Land Surveyor

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PACE Engineers, a Verdantas Company, is seeking a Licensed Land Surveyor to provide leadership for surveying services from our Lake Oswego, Oregon office. This is an opportunity for a licensed survey professional who combines strong technical expertise with client leadership, project management, business development, and team development skills.

The Licensed Land Surveyor will play a key role in growing PACE’s surveying capabilities while partnering closely with our engineering and planning teams to support municipal infrastructure, land development, transportation, water, and other engineering projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The ideal candidate is an established surveying professional who enjoys building client relationships, developing people, solving complex boundary and project challenges, and helping shape the direction of a growing practice.

What You’ll Do

Surveying & Technical Leadership

• Provide technical oversight for boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, right-of-way, construction, and other land surveying projects.
• Review and approve survey calculations, legal descriptions, plats, maps, exhibits, and other surveying deliverables.
• Serve as responsible Professional Land Surveyor on applicable projects and ensure work meets professional standards and regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical guidance on complex boundary, easement, right-of-way, title, and property matters.
• Establish and maintain strong standards for quality control, documentation, and survey deliverables.
• Collaborate with other surveyors, engineers, planners, project managers, and other technical professionals throughout project planning, design, and construction.

Project & Client Leadership

• Lead projects from initial scope and proposal through fieldwork, mapping, final deliverables, and project closeout.
• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and fee estimates.
• Maintain effective communication with clients and proactively manage project expectations.
• Build trusted relationships with municipalities, public agencies, developers, engineering partners, contractors, and other clients.
• Serve as a resource to clients on surveying and land-related issues.

Business Development & Practice Growth

• Help develop and execute strategies to grow PACE’s surveying practice in Oregon and the broader Pacific Northwest.
• Identify new clients, markets, and project opportunities.
• Support proposals, interviews, presentations, and pursuit strategies.
• Develop relationships that generate repeat business and expand surveying opportunities with existing PACE clients.
• Partner with engineering and planning leaders to identify multidisciplinary opportunities and integrate surveying services into larger projects.

Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Provide leadership, coaching, and technical mentorship to survey staff.
• Support the professional development of field and office personnel, including employees pursuing professional licensure.
• Assist with recruiting and building a strong surveying team as the practice grows.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, technical excellence, and exceptional client service.
• Help balance workloads, project priorities, and staff resources across the survey practice.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• Active Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license in Oregon State, or ability to obtain Oregon licensure through comity.
• Significant progressive experience in professional land surveying, including project and client management responsibilities.
• Strong knowledge of boundary surveying principles, legal descriptions, easements, rights-of-way, plats, and applicable Oregon surveying requirements.
• Experience managing survey projects, budgets, schedules, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Strong written, verbal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively mentor and develop surveying professionals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Established professional relationships within the Greater Portland area architecture, engineering, construction, development, or public-agency markets.
• Experience supporting municipal infrastructure, transportation, utilities, or land development projects.
• Experience with modern surveying technologies and workflows, including GNSS/GPS, robotic total stations, digital data collection, and survey/CAD software.
• Experience leading or helping grow a surveying practice, office, or service line.
• Proven success contributing to business development and proposal efforts.
• PLS licensure in Washington or other Western states is a plus.

Salary Range:

$122,000k - $161,200k/yr

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