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