# Survey Assistant

The Opportunity McElhanney has an opportunity for a Survey Assistant to join our team in Barrhead, AB! This is a great opportunity for an individual that is looking to begin or develop their career in Surveying with a well-established Survey and Engineering Consultancy. Numerous projects are multiyear assignments and McElhanney has industry leading capabilities in Surveying, Scanning, RPAS/drone operations, Bathymetry, LiDAR and remote sensing, line locating and GIS, offering the opportunity to learn new, and apply existing skills on multidisciplinary projects. Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing is required, as well as pre-site access testing as per client requirements. Location: The selected candidate must reside in Barrhead, AB, or within a reasonable commuting distance. What You’ll Do Set-up and operate a range of survey equipment. Follow directives received from Field Supervisor or Party Chief to assist survey team and complete tasks. Learning correct surveying methods and completing some tasks independently under the direction of the party chief or supervisors. Using tools and equipment to place stakes, marks, control points or to identify and expose utilities or survey

- **Id**: 4170106
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mcelhanney-survey-assistant-6>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-10T10:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:30:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 125
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3070
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Geospatial Analytics, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 2358716
- **Name**: McElhanney
- **Domain**: mcelhanney.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mcelhanney>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.75
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 64
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 18
- **Max**: 26
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 36000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 125

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T14:30:14Z

## Visa

- Country: CA; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Approved LMIA in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.467
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 125
- **Expected fill days**: 64
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T17:41:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 36000
- **Is top pay**: no

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