Survey Coordinator

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organisations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.

Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes.

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

Why this role matters?

As a Survey Coordinator, you will be the operational engine behind ERM's UK survey programmes — coordinating access, scheduling, logistics, and compliance across a portfolio of capital projects. Working within the Capital Project Delivery (CPD) — Projects Feasibility, Planning & Consents pillar, you will partner with Land Access Managers, Land Access Coordinators, technical survey leads, project managers to ensure surveys are delivered on time, safely, and in line with landowner permissions. This role is critical to de-risking survey programmes, maintaining CDM and H&S compliance, and enabling CPD's UK Land Services and technical teams to grow through reliable, well-run field campaigns.

What your impact is?

• Survey programmes are delivered on schedule and within budget, with access, resource, and equipment aligned to landowner permissions and site constraints.

• Access windows are actively managed and re-planned in response to weather, ecology seasons, landowner availability, and construction interfaces — protecting critical path.

• Clients and Internal stakeholders receive clear, timely progress updates on survey status, blockers, and completion, supported by accurate trackers and reporting.

• Cross-team coordination, with issues escalated early and resolved collaboratively.

• Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), permits, and post-survey reinstatement records are complete, auditable, and stored in line with ERM's quality and assurance standards.

What will you bring?

• Demonstrable experience (typically 3+ years) coordinating multi-discipline surveys, fieldwork, or site logistics on UK infrastructure, energy, utilities, environmental, or development projects.

• Strong programme and logistics management skills — able to juggle multiple concurrent survey campaigns, teams, and access windows.

• Working knowledge of UK H&S and compliance frameworks relevant to fieldwork.

• Confident communicator with landowners, surveyors, subcontractors, and clients — both written and verbal.

• Strong Microsoft 365 skills (Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint) with the ability to build and maintain trackers, dashboards, and resourcing plans.

• Familiarity with GIS platforms and the ability to interpret land plans, constraint mapping, and access routes.

• Commercial awareness of utilisation, chargeability, and cost control on survey workstreams.

Preferred qualifications, skills & competencies

• Background or qualification in ecology, environmental science, geography, land management, or a related discipline.

• Prior experience coordinating surveys.

• Familiarity with resource management and forecasting tools used in consultancy (e.g., Workday, resource trackers).

• Experience supporting DCO, TWAO, planning, or ESIA-driven survey programmes.

• Exposure to global delivery or shared service environments, working alongside offshore/CDH delivery teams.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, and mobilisation of UK survey campaigns across disciplines.

• Work closely with Land Access Managers and Coordinators to align survey programmes with landowner permissions, access windows, and any site-specific conditions or restrictions.

• Maintain the master survey tracker, resource plan, and access matrix — ensuring visibility of status, blockers, and forecast completion across projects.

• Ensure all surveyors and subcontractors have the required competencies, certifications, and inductions before deployment.

• Provide clear, timely progress updates to project managers, technical leads, and clients on survey delivery, and escalate risks or delays early.

• Support the Land Access Manager with post-survey close-out, including reinstatement checks, damage claims, and landowner thank-you communications.

• Contribute to continuous improvement — refining trackers, templates, competency matrices, and process documentation for CPD's UK Land Services and technical teams.

• Uphold ERM's health, safety, quality, and ethics standards on all fieldwork, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of every team member deployed to site.