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