Review and execute completed form, final surveys and elevation certificates. Prepare plots, maps and reports.Ĭollaborate with our other surveyors to refine our drafting guidelines. Travel to locations and select known reference points to determine the exact location of important features. You will have ability to work with our transportation engineers, planners, and surveyors when your projects need their expertise. Qualifications: 5 years experience in crew supervision construction layout client liaison field procedures for data collection, calculations, and layout… Testify as an expert witness in court cases on land survey issues, such as property boundaries.Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.