About Stratus
Stratus® is an integrated, multi-disciplinary engineering, architecture, interior design, and consulting firm. Consistently ranking among the Top 500 Design Firms in Engineering News-Record, the firm offers a deep bench of industry experts through a highly collaborative approach, delivering innovative solutions across the full project lifecycle. Operating coast to coast, Stratus® serves clients nationwide while maintaining a strategic commitment to supporting high-growth economies and building vibrant communities that foster the professional growth of its team. Serving public- and private-sector clients, the firm is dedicated to delivering the highest-quality service wherever projects take shape. Across the Civic, Commercial, Industrial, Transportation, Education, Water Resources, and Government sectors, we bring precision, insight, and purpose to every project, from targeted renovations to large-scale infrastructure. Stratus® designs spaces, systems, and solutions that perform, endure, and make an impact, delivering on our promise of Better Plans. Better Places.
The Role
The Survey Project Manager, Geomatics, is responsible for managing large-scale, complex survey projects and supporting market growth through client relationship management and business development. This role provides leadership to project teams, oversees financial and technical performance, and serves as a trusted advisor to clients. The Senior Project Manager also mentors junior project managers, contributes to market strategies, and ensures projects align with the firm’s technical and business standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead management of large, complex, and multi-phase survey projects, ensuring delivery on scope, budget, schedule, and quality.
- Manage survey projects from end to end, while remaining profitable, on-schedule, and within budget constraints.
- Build and maintain client relationships, ensuring ongoing communication about project scope and delivery.
- Work on many different types of survey including but not limited to boundary, ALTA, topographic, existing conditions, right-of-way, transmission line, transportation, construction, and others.
- Work in teams and individually to manage aspects of they typical survey projects, including project schedules, goals, and directing efforts of our field crews and technicians.
- Oversee the preparation of maps and plats, legal descriptions and all other deliverables while directing field work and associated quality reviews throughout the project delivery process.
- Support Market Director in developing market strategies and pursuing new opportunities.
- Represent the firm in client meetings, industry events, and professional associations.
- Ensure compliance with applicable technical standards, regulations, and quality assurance procedures.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant surveying experience.
- Skills in LiDAR feature extraction, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Smartsheet, and Deltek Vision
- Minimum of 5 years of surveying-related CAD experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience dealing directly with clients and managing projects
- High school diploma required; bachelor’s degree in related discipline preferred.
- You have your Fundamentals of Survey (FS) with ability to obtain North Carolina Professional Land Surveyor License (PLS) within 1 year
Why you’ll love Stratus
- A team-oriented environment that values transparency, creativity, and shared success
- Meaningful career paths, leadership opportunities, and space to specialize
- Learning & Development – Education and Professional Licensing
- We believe flexible, hybrid work supports the balance and well-being our team deserves
- Excellent Health Care Programs – Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Company-paid Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
- Voluntary Life Insurance options for employees, spouses, and dependents
- 401k Retirement Plan with employer match
- Paid Holidays & Competitive PTO plans
Interested in learning more about Stratus, please visit https://www.stratusteam.com/.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Stratus is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. Stratus Team’s management Team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and general treatment during employment.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of relevant surveying experience
- Minimum 5 years of surveying-related CAD experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience dealing directly with clients and managing projects
- Experience or skills in LiDAR feature extraction, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Smartsheet, and Deltek Vision
- High school diploma
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline
- Fundamentals of Survey certification
- Ability to obtain a North Carolina Professional Land Surveyor license within one year
What We Do
Stratus is a multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, interior design, and consulting firm formed by bringing together established regional firms. It provides integrated design and technical services across the project lifecycle to public- and private-sector clients, including work in civic, commercial, industrial, transportation, education, and government markets. Its teams deliver solutions such as infrastructure, building design, surveying, and planning, with a mission focused on improving communities through purposeful, collaborative work.
