Land Surveyor

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Land Surveyor to join their team in Medina. This full-time position involves performing surveying activities for a high-rise hotel renovation project, specifically focusing on the civil, structural modification, and facade-remediation phases. The role requires a minimum of 10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform surveying activities for the civil, structural modification, and facade-remediation phases of a high-rise hotel renovation.
• Establish, verify, and protect primary and secondary survey control points connected to the approved Madinah municipal geodetic network.
• Conduct high-precision verticality, plumbness, alignment, elevation, and dimensional surveys of the high-rise tower.
• Survey existing structural elements before demolition, modification, strengthening, or off-site fabrication.
• Perform 3D laser scanning of existing brownfield conditions and identify dimensional deviations.
• Verify the contractor’s setting-out works for structural underpinning, slab openings, elevator shafts, facade brackets, and other structural modifications.
• Check coordinates, gridlines, levels, floor elevations, openings, anchor points, and construction tolerances.
• Establish and maintain structural deformation, settlement, deflection, and building-movement monitoring systems.
• Analyse monitoring results and immediately report any unusual movement or deviation.
• Review contractor survey calculations, setting-out records, reports, and as-built information.
• Coordinate survey requirements with structural, civil, architectural, facade, and contractor teams.
• Prepare survey reports, sketches, coordinate schedules, monitoring records, and as-built drawings.
• Ensure all surveying instruments are correctly maintained and supported by valid calibration certificates.
• Maintain accurate survey records in accordance with project quality and document-control procedures.
• Follow all applicable project safety, quality, and municipal requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 15 years of land, engineering, and building-surveying experience.
• Proven experience in high-rise building verticality control, structural retrofitting, and brownfield verification.
• Strong experience in setting out structural modifications, elevator shafts, facade systems, and high-precision construction works.
• Practical experience in structural deformation, settlement, deflection, and movement monitoring.
• Previous experience working with an engineering consultancy or construction supervision consultant.

Required Skills

• Advanced proficiency with Leica or Trimble total stations, digital levels, 3D laser scanners, and GPS/GNSS equipment.
• Strong knowledge of geodetic control networks, coordinate systems, survey adjustments, and construction tolerances.
• Ability to interpret architectural, civil, structural, and facade drawings.
• Knowledge of instrument calibration, survey-control protection, and accurate record management.
• Good written and spoken English is required; Arabic is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Madinah Central Area survey benchmarks and municipal requirements is preferred.