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