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