Manager (Survey)

Role overview

This position is for a survey professional supporting a major hydro project in Kadapa Mandal, Andhra Pradesh. The role focuses on delivering accurate survey control, setting-out, alignment checks, monitoring, and measurement support across civil, hydro-mechanical, and electrical works.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain a reliable survey control network across the full project footprint, including horizontal and vertical control points.
• Set up and preserve permanent benchmarks for critical structures such as the dam, tunnels, pressure shaft, caverns, and powerhouse.
• Keep control stations accurate and stable throughout the life of the project.
• Carry out precise setting-out for dam and spillway works, intake structures, HRT, TRT, adits, surge shaft, pressure shaft/tunnel, powerhouse, transformer cavern, and penstock alignment.
• Ensure construction execution stays aligned with design coordinates, levels, profiles, and alignments.
• Perform underground alignment checks, deformation/convergence monitoring, overbreak and underbreak assessments, and verification of crown, wall, and invert positions.
• Confirm that tunnel breakthrough from multiple headings stays within acceptable tolerance.
• Support installation of hydro-mechanical and electro-mechanical equipment by providing accurate alignment for penstocks, steel liners, bifurcations, turbine runner, draft tube, spiral case, generator stator, rotor centreline, EOT cranes, and monorails.
• Maintain the precision standards required by OEMs.
• Conduct topographic and as-built surveys for excavation quantities, valley/riverside/hill terrain, underground cavities, and penstock or pipeline routing.
• Prepare as-built drawings for completed work packages.
• Measure earthwork, rock excavation, backfilling, and concrete quantities, and assist with billing checks for contractors and subcontractors.
• Monitor settlement or movement of the dam body, powerhouse, pressure shaft, and underground tunnels, and escalate abnormal displacement to engineering or safety teams.
• Ensure survey instruments remain calibrated, maintained, and functioning accurately.
• Work with modern survey tools such as total stations, DGPS, LiDAR, and tunnel profilers.
• Follow BIS/IS standards, project tolerances, OEM alignment requirements, and site safety procedures for underground areas, steep terrain, and restricted zones.

Qualifications and experience

• A diploma or degree in Civil Engineering is considered an added advantage.
• Strong working knowledge of AutoCAD, 3D tools, and other related software is expected.
• The role calls for at least 12 years of experience in underground hydro or PSP projects.

Additional information

This is a full-time, onsite position based in Kadapa Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India.