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Job Description
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-1022.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 63,480.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 30.00
- Currently, there are 43,340 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surveyors”.
Also Known As…
- Surveyors
- Surveyor
- Survey Party Chief
- Professional Land Surveyor
- Mine Surveyor
- Licensed Land Surveyor
- Land Surveyor
- Engineering Technician
- Engineer
- County Surveyor
- Topographical Surveyor
- Survey Superintendent
- Survey Project Manager
- Survey Manager
- Survey Engineer
- Survey Coordinator
- Site Surveyor
- Registered Public Surveyor
- Registered Land Surveyor
- Registered (Public) Surveyor
- Railroad Surveyor
- Project Surveyor
- Professional Surveyor
- Port Surveyor
- Photogrammetry Flight Operations Director
- Photogrammetric Engineer
- Mineral Surveyor
- Licensed Surveyor
- Land Surveyor Manager
- Land Measurer
- Land Examiner
- Geophysical Prospecting Surveyor
- Geodetic Surveyor
- Geodesist
- City Surveyor
Tasks for “Geodesist”
- Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
- Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
- Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
- Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
- Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
- Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
- Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
- Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
- Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
- Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
- Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
- Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
- Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
- Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
- Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
- Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
- Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
- Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
- Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
- Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
- Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
- Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
- Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
Related Technology & Tools
- Telescopic viewers
- Measuring tapes
- Prismless total stations
- Reflectorless total stations
- San Francisco rods
- Tracking lasers
- Mechanical theodolites
- Distance meters
- Side scan sonars
- Line lasers
- Digital measuring poles
- Laptop computers
- Handheld measuring lasers
- Elevator tripods
- Abney levels
- Tripods
- Plumb bobs
- Pocket transits
- Measuring rods
- Robotic total stations
- Electronic digital theodolites
- Rotary lasers
- Single-beam transducers
- Altimeters
- Clinometers
- Gammon reels
- Right-angle prisms
- Barometers
- Digital laser rangefinders
- Planimeters
- Two way radios
- Hand levels
- Direct elevation rods
- Curvimeters
- Prism poles
- Rod levels
- Dot lasers
- Total stations
- Invisible beam lasers
- Tribrachs
- Philadelphia rods
- Laser plumb bobs
- Road measuring wheels
- Transit levels
- Machetes
- Long range reflectorless total stations
- Electronic digital levels
- Automatic slope lasers
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Automatic levels
- Double right-angle prisms
- Pocket personal computers PC
- Magnetic locators
- Geological compasses
- Single-beam echo sounders
- Surveyors leveling rods
- Visible beam lasers
- Stereoscopes
- Laser scanners
- Depth gauge tapes
- Integrated global positioning systems GPS
- Robotic tripods
- CloudWorks
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- ESRI ArcView
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- PC-Mapper software
- Cyclone
- Internet browser software
- Project analysis and costing software
- CMT Incorporated CogoCAD
- Trimble Terramodel
- Surface modeling software
- Sharetech Tabs Plus
- Sokkia Spectrum Survey Suite
- Crones & Associations Project Tracker Pro
- Bentley MicroStation
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- MicroSurveyCAD
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- MicroSurvey FieldGenius
- Cadcorp desktop GIS
- HYPACK MAX
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Carlson SurvCE
- HYPACK HYSWEEP
- NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Drafting software
- Sokkia G2
- Data logging software
- Geocomp Systems GeoNav
- Geodetic software
- Topographic database software
- Carlson SurvCADD
- Bentley Systems InRoads Suite
- Survey software
- Trimble HydroPro
- Sokkia Imap
- CE Surveyor III
- Bentley GeoPak Bridge
- Autodesk AutoCAD Land Desktop
- Carlson Survey
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Latitude software
- Project data integration software
- Data transfer software