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