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Overview
Work History
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Certification
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Gregg Benitez

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Dedicated and disciplined former US Marine with a desire to leverage skills in a new professional setting. Seeking a position with a company valuing commitment, teamwork, and excellence to contribute to success and further career objectives. Committed to delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations to make a meaningful impact within the company.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Survey Party Chief

Baseline DCCM
10.2023 - 04.2025
  • Exceeded client expectations with meticulous attention to detail in survey plans and reports, resulting in increased customer satisfaction ratings.
  • Enhanced team collaboration by providing guidance and mentoring to junior surveyors throughout projects.
  • Resolved complex survey challenges through critical thinking skills applied to problem-solving techniques such as boundary analysis or topographic mapping adjustments.
  • Increased accuracy of survey measurements by utilizing advanced technological tools and software programs, including Leica and Tremble.

PARTY CHIEF

Lupher Surveying
03.2020 - 12.2022
  • Work primarily in the field on control, boundary, right-of-way, topographic and construction surveys
  • Party Chief of field crews in urban and remote areas
  • Accurately run and adjust survey measuring instruments including level, base and rover, total stations with electronic rob collecting capabilities and GPS receivers
  • Perform some office duties, including data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks and staking computations using Trimble Business Center and Civil3D
  • Reviews and/or take accurate and clear notes, by recording survey measurements, descriptive data and sketches
  • Performs or supervises driving of surveying stakes and building of batter-boards using hammers, nails and string
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of industry best practices, more efficient field processes and procedures and the innovative use of new technology

INSTRUMENT II AND LAND SURVEY CONSULTANT

VICKREY AND ASSOCIATES CIVIL ENGINEERS
10.2015 - 03.2020
  • Manage and perform field survey work with the help of Survey Assistants
  • Determine methods and procedures for establishing or reestablishing survey control
  • Assist production operations in setup, usage, and maintenance of instrument use in their operations
  • Provide production information from project documents and plans to field operations
  • Performs related mathematical calculations and checking of mapping data
  • Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps
  • Maintain a functional and current knowledge of production operations schedules and procedures and make directive decisions as they pertain to the survey responsibilities and personnel in their charge
  • PROJECTS INCLUDE: Multiple TX DOT Highways and Bridge Developments all over Texas

PROJECT COORDINATOR/PARTY CHIEF

CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
07.2013 - 10.2015
  • Coordinate survey from start to finish
  • Read designs and articulate plans for pipeline direction
  • Create pipeline alignments
  • Worked directly with landowners and ranch managers to secure jobsite
  • Created the layout for pad sites and frac pips
  • Managed budget and schedule for each portion of the job
  • Coordinate survey to include boundaries, Alta, topographic, as-builts, and TXDot projects
  • Construction and ROW staking
  • Responsible for input of data on a daily basis and data transfer to RPLS and engineers

LAYOUT/FIELD ENGINEER

STEWARD BUILDERS INC. (KEYSTONE CONCRETE)
03.2010 - 07.2013
  • Field engineer with a crew of 2
  • Read designs and articulate plans for new and existing construction projects
  • Vast understanding of site development to include utilities, grading, planning, rotation, coordinate translation and error adjustment In charge of layout for construction staking Create gridlines for grade beams, waterline plumbing and utilities
  • Create coordinates for building corners, walls, streets and curbs
  • Responsible for dirt work and elevation for construction resulting in pad certification
  • Constructed buildings and garages with plans
  • Created Leica Level I elevations for grade beams
  • Finished floor elevations and establish benchmarks
  • Proficient in curve solutions and road staking
  • Equipment used on job site: Nokia Total Station, Leica Level, TDS Recon Data Collector

INSTRUMENTMAN/ JUNIOR PARTY CHIEF

BURY+PARTNERS ENGINEERS
03.2007 - 04.2009
  • Key member of a construction survey crew for new and existing construction projects
  • Developed and maintained relationships with project engineers to ensure timely delivery of accurate information from engineers to field operations
  • GPS grade control equipment
  • Vast understanding of site development to include utilities, grading, planning, rotation, coordinate translation & error adjustment
  • Perform calculations to determine measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs and placement of markers
  • Record survey measurements and descriptive data using notes, drawing, sketches, and inked tracings
  • Oversee all aspects of job planning relative to surveying to include survey strategy, mapping, boundary surveying, construction staking, site localization for run instruments
  • Oversee projects from RPLS and PE with crew to be completed in a timely manner from pre-site set-up, road & sewer alignment, to final monumentation
  • Take on jobs with a higher responsibility and finish them within the bid proposal time frame

RODMAN/INSTRUMENTMAN

Pape Dawson
01.2004 - 03.2007
  • Key member of a construction survey crew that surveyed job sites for new and existing construction projects
  • Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, stacking rods and other heavy items (6 months)
  • Preliminary construction staking, boundary survey
  • Preliminary civil design topography for future subdivision development, maintain instruments and collectors, restock daily supplies and maintain full knowledge of instruments and collectors
  • Working with two or three man crew to complete survey from pre-site setup, road & sewer alignment to final monumentation Establish elevated benchmarks
  • Layout grids and determine horizontal and vertical controls
  • Equipment used on a daily basis: Leica Rover Pack GPS, Leica Total Station, TDS (Ranger and Recon), Trimble Real Time GPS

Education

Diploma -

Sam Houston High School
San Antonio, TX
06-1996

Skills

  • 24 Years experience
  • 12 Years TXDOT
  • 7 Years Construction Layout
  • Trimble R15 Base Station with Rover, TSC7 Data Collector
  • Leica Base Station, Robot 3D Scanners, P-30 & P-50 Leica 3D Scanners
  • Digital and Auto Levels, Seismic Sonar Instruments

Accomplishments

  • Most linear feet surveyed in one day
  • Most accurate shots taken in one day
  • Biggest tree topographic survey in one day
  • Employee who saved on budget due to completion of projects on or before timeframe in one year

Certification

Can provide during interview.

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Survey Party Chief

Baseline DCCM
10.2023 - 04.2025

PARTY CHIEF

Lupher Surveying
03.2020 - 12.2022

INSTRUMENT II AND LAND SURVEY CONSULTANT

VICKREY AND ASSOCIATES CIVIL ENGINEERS
10.2015 - 03.2020

PROJECT COORDINATOR/PARTY CHIEF

CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
07.2013 - 10.2015

LAYOUT/FIELD ENGINEER

STEWARD BUILDERS INC. (KEYSTONE CONCRETE)
03.2010 - 07.2013

INSTRUMENTMAN/ JUNIOR PARTY CHIEF

BURY+PARTNERS ENGINEERS
03.2007 - 04.2009

RODMAN/INSTRUMENTMAN

Pape Dawson
01.2004 - 03.2007

Diploma -

Sam Houston High School

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