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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Architecture & Construction
occupation category
Surveying and Mapping Technicians
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Follows layout and staking protocols
- Collects information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, or other relevant information
- Completes detailed source and method notes describing the location of routine or complex land parcels
- Assists with downloading/uploading and processing of survey data between the electronic data collector and laptop/desktop computers for all types of surveys
- Analyzes map data and make decisions based on policy to complete map workflows
- Prepares worksite as it pertains to transportation, dismantling and stockpiling of scaffolding and work platforms
- Operates total station, theodolite and electronic distance measuring equipment
- Uses surveying software and computer aided design (CAD) equipment in preparation of survey plats
- Develops final construction plans that include aesthetic representations of the structure or details for its construction
- Produces or updates overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at a different scale
- Verifies legal descriptions and ownership
- Performs and assists in research of public records to determine routine title and boundaries
- Retraces or surveys boundary lines under supervision
- Conducts surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment, such as GPS, and other surveying instruments
- Enters key mapping metadata and other information as requested with high accuracy
- Uses mapping tools and knowledge to continually improve map accuracy and edits
- Collects data and provide domain expertise as part of post-project reports or deep-dives
- Reads and interprets routine survey records and deeds
- Contributes to project bugs, workflows, worksheets, scripts, and dashboards
- Works with mapping imagery and data to make edits with exceptional quality and accuracy
- Runs QA tools and answer key quality questions about imagery
- Identifies and raises systemic problems with tools or processes
- Draws rough and detailed scale plans for foundations, buildings, and structures, based on preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets, and other data
- Monitors mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion or new or changed information, or compliance with rules or regulations
- Designs or develops information databases that include geographic or topographic data
- Analyzes aerial photographs to detect and interpret significant military, industrial, resource, or topographical data
- Understands real estate law related to surveying
- Participates in conducting the activities of a survey party engaged in topographic surveys, bridge site surveys, aerial control surveys, centerline staking, right-of-way surveys, and establishing references for highway construction
- Provides assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys
- Understands sampling errors and issues such as non-response
- Compares survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data
- Provides quantitative and qualitative insights to mapping processes as part of post-project analysis or deep-dive
- Performs surveys using electronic distance measuring devices
- Performs calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures or adjustments, azimuths, level runs, or placement of markers
- Prepares topographic or contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes
- Sets out and recovers stakes, marks, or other monumentation
- Prepares and writes legal descriptions from deeds of record and from data acquired from field surveys
- Prepares scale drawings or architectural designs, using computer-aided design or other tools
- Traces contours or topographic details to generate maps that denote specific land or property locations or geographic attributes
- Understands survey principles and practices
- Checks all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors
- Compiles information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans
- Lays out and plans interior room arrangements for commercial buildings, using computer-assisted drafting (CAD) equipment and software
- Compares topographical features or contour lines with images from aerial photographs, old maps, or other reference materials to verify the accuracy of their identification
- Uses research and discernment skills to make map edits of the highest quality
- Produces drawings, using computer-assisted drafting systems (CAD) or drafting machines, or by hand, using compasses, dividers, protractors, triangles, and other drafting devices
- Plans and designs transportation or hydraulic systems or structures, using computer-assisted design or drawing tools
- Calculates percentage of ownership per recorded deed requirements
- Adjusts and operates surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, electronic distance measuring equipment, or electronic data collectors
- Performs intermediate surveying computations to include traversing, inversing, translation and rotation of data, simple curves, closures of figures and areas
- Operates state-of-the-art survey instruments to conduct topographic, bridge site, aerial control, cadastral and right-of-way surveys
- Performs grading and compaction duties
- Positions and holds the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations
- Performs calculations for construction stakeout for review
- Coordinates structural, electrical, and mechanical designs and determines a method of presentation to graphically represent building plans
- Understands Federal and State land survey and boundary law
- Prepares cost estimates for mapping projects
- Determines scales, line sizes, or colors to be used for hard copies of computerized maps, using plotters
- Understands principles of sample and survey design and collection methods
- Enters Global Positioning System (GPS) data, legal deeds, field notes, or land survey reports into geographic information system (GIS) workstations so that information can be transformed into graphic land descriptions, such as maps and drawings
- Investigates complex problems, provides detailed insights, develop hypotheses, and proposes solutions to mitigate, prevent, or solve them
- Contributes to in-depth failure analysis to determine the root cause of problems or incorrect edits
- Reports any measurement errors discovered during the survey work and recommends feasible solutions
- Sets up, adjusts, operates, inspects surveying equipment, including electronic total station, data collector to measure distances, elevations, angles, and other data, in order to collect survey data
- Processes data from manual or electronic field books
- Answers questions and provides information to the public or to staff members regarding assessment maps, surveys, boundaries, easements, property ownership, roads, zoning, or similar matters
- Calculates latitudes, longitudes, angles, areas, or other information for mapmaking, using survey field notes or reference tables
- Assists in researching existing record information, including record maps, plans, deeds, easements, and right-of-way documents; and maintains field data records
- Assists in processing raw data to a finished drawing (preliminary) through the survey and mapping software programs
- Trims, aligns, and joins prints to form photographic mosaics, maintaining scaled distances between reference points
- Records survey measurements or descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, or inked tracings
- Identifies and compiles database information to create requested maps
- Searches for section corners, property irons, or survey points
- Inspects and reviews contract surveys for conformance with contract specifications
- Performs basic field calculations of horizontal and vertical geometry of roadways under supervision
- Conducts research on ownership, addressing, title, legal descriptions and homestead exemption issues
- Researches and combines existing property information to describe property boundaries in relation to adjacent properties, taking into account parcel splits, combinations, or land boundary adjustments
- Operates and manages land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports
