Join Our Legacy of Excellence: Lead, Innovate, and Shape the Future with Us

We're Growing and Designing Our Future Together

We are experiencing tremendous growth and are seeking passionate team members who are ready to make an impact! As an employee-owned company, we prioritize enhancing the lives of our clients, communities, and employees. Your role here directly contributes to the quality of service we deliver. You'll have opportunities to grow your skills and work with others in a collaborative environment. Most of our work involves helping smaller, rural communities, including many tribal clients, overcome a myriad of challenges to deliver safe drinking water. The projects are rewarding, unique, and challenging.

As a senior-level team member at SMA, you will have the opportunity to not only contribute to high-profile projects but also to shape the direction of our organization. Here, your experience will be valued, your leadership will be elevated, and your expertise will inspire future generations of engineers and professionals.

Why Join Us?

• Ownership & Impact: Experience the unique advantage of employee ownership, where your contributions directly shape our company's future.
• Community Focus: We're deeply committed to the communities we serve. Our engineers, scientists, surveyors, and professionals are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that make a real difference.
• Growth & Development: We invest in your professional growth, providing opportunities to expand your skills and collaborate with a dynamic team.
• Proven Excellence: With a legacy dating back to 1985, SMA is a leading engineering firm in New Mexico, renowned for our commitment to infrastructure, water safety, environmental remediation, and more.

SUMMARY:

Souder, Miller & Associates is seeking a full-time Licensed Professional Land Surveyor (Senior Manager I/III) to support projects in Colorado. This role involves managing survey projects, reviewing plans, coordinating and scheduling field crews, preparing field materials, and processing survey data. The ideal candidate holds a professional surveyor license and demonstrates strong organizational and project management skills. A flexible work schedule is offered.

This position requires a bachelor's and/or master’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university and a minimum of 16 years of experience. The preferred candidate will be a member of a professional organization and have a P.L.S. registration. The SM I/III is responsible for planning, designing, and directing projects locally and/or remotely on a corporate level. The SM I/III position requires the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, design plans, and governmental regulations, and write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

The Senior Manager is also responsible for leading and performing advanced field survey assignments, including boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, construction staking, utility, control, and related survey work. This position provides technical expertise in the use of survey equipment, data collection, field calculations, plan interpretation, construction layout, and survey data management. This role requires strong field judgment, attention to detail, safety awareness, effective communication, and the ability to coordinate survey activities in a fast-paced project environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare and monitor project budgets and hold overall responsibility for the profitability of assigned projects.
• Manage work-in-process, ensure accurate and timely client billings, and oversee outstanding accounts receivable and collection efforts on projects.
• Manage project and office technical group schedules to ensure projects are completed on time.
• Serve as a senior project design specialist on complex projects of any size, and as a designated client contact or client manager.
• Develop and oversee client relationship strategies and serve as the primary client contact for assigned clients.
• Coordinate and review pricing, estimating, scoping, and marketing strategies for proposed projects of any size or fee.
• Prepare proposals and fee estimates for small and large boundary surveys, subdivision stakeouts, ALTA/NSPS Land Title surveys, right-of-way and easement staking, and topographic surveys.
• Conduct small and large boundary surveys, subdivision stakeouts, ALTA/NSPS Land Title surveys, right-of-way and easement staking, topographic surveys, and design data collection for engineering design projects.
• Manage and schedule multiple survey crews and survey CADD technicians for the project types listed above.
• Oversee surveys conducted by supervised staff and perform professional review of all work before sealing and signing survey deliverables.
• Use AutoCAD Civil 3D civil/survey software with basic proficiency.
• Use Trimble GPS/RTK survey systems, Trimble Robotic Total Stations, and Trimble Business Center (TBC) software with proficiency.
• Track project budgets, prepare utilization and accounts receivable reports, and forecast workload for assigned staff.
• Build collaborative working relationships with engineering professionals to execute projects successfully.
• Communicate and work with clients to resolve issues and solve problems.
• Complete job-specific quality system tasks as defined in the quality manual and promote and adhere to the company Safety Plan.
• In coordination with the Tech Sector (TS) Director/Manager, develop and review contract agreements for assigned projects, and execute agreements within value-limited signatory authority.
• Develop probable construction cost estimates for complex projects within the assigned TS.
• Attend client meetings, day or night, and travel overnight unassisted, occasionally for several consecutive nights.
• Analyze reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, tests, and aerial photographs to ensure quality and to plan and design projects.
• Direct and supervise the activities of other employees, as assigned.
• Prepare, or direct the preparation and modification of, reports, specifications, plans, construction schedules, environmental impact studies, and designs for the project.
• Use computer-assisted engineering, technical, and design software and equipment to prepare engineering, analysis, and design documents ranging from simple to complex.
• Visit construction and investigation sites to monitor progress and perform other duties per the contract documents as the registered professional of record.
• Under the direction of the TS Director/Manager, lead significant marketing efforts with clients to obtain work for the firm.
• In coordination with the TS Director/Manager, engage potential and existing clients, identify new and emerging project opportunities, set up meetings, and lead proposal development.
• Maintain regular contact with key assigned clients to discuss current projects, evaluate firm performance, and identify additional business opportunities with current clients or through referrals.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate engineering or science field.
• Minimum sixteen (16) years of experience in the surveying industry as a Registered Professional Surveyor.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in staff management.
• This position requires registration as a Professional Land Surveyor in New Mexico or Colorado. Licenses in AZ, UT, and TX a plus.
• Must have a valid driver's license.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

 Travel up to 25%

Benefits:

At SMA, we reward talent with competitive salaries and benefits that reflect your experience and contributions:

• Salary Range: $110,000 to $130,000 per year.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K Retirement Plan, Employee Stock Options (ESOP), Life/ADD Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care, and more.
• Paid Time Off & Wellness Programs: Generous PTO, flexible work schedules, wellness initiatives, and more.
• Professional Growth: Tuition/Student Loan reimbursement program, professional dues, and opportunities for advancement within the company.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able and willing to frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Why SMA?
Since 1985, Souder, Miller & Associates has been a leader in providing engineering, survey, and environmental solutions across New Mexico. As the third-largest engineering firm in the state, we pride ourselves on delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to complex challenges, from designing public infrastructure to environmental remediation. Our employee-driven culture fosters a sense of ownership and community where everyone’s contribution is recognized and valued.

At SMA, you’re not just a team member – you’re an integral part of our journey to success, a mentor to the next generation of engineers, and a leader who shapes the future of the communities we serve.

If you’re ready to make a lasting impact, drive innovation, and grow with an employee-owned firm, we want to hear from you. Apply now to be part of our legacy.