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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”.

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Tasks for “Land Surveyor Manager”

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.
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
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.
Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
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.
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).
Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.

Related Technology & Tools

Tribrachs
Electronic digital levels
Integrated global positioning systems GPS
Laptop computers
Barometers
Planimeters
Laser scanners
Depth gauge tapes
Pocket transits
Machetes
Philadelphia rods
Total stations
Single-beam transducers
Distance meters
Pocket personal computers PC
Right-angle prisms
Rotary lasers
Surveyors leveling rods
Automatic slope lasers
Electronic digital theodolites
Handheld measuring lasers
Abney levels
Measuring tapes
Curvimeters
Double right-angle prisms
Elevator tripods
Two way radios
Reflectorless total stations
Road measuring wheels
Line lasers
Prismless total stations
San Francisco rods
Direct elevation rods
Transit levels
Prism poles
Visible beam lasers
Digital measuring poles
Tripods
Long range reflectorless total stations
Magnetic locators
Clinometers
Plumb bobs
Hand levels
Geological compasses
Gammon reels
Digital laser rangefinders
Global positioning system GPS receivers
Invisible beam lasers
Robotic total stations
Laser plumb bobs
Rod levels
Mechanical theodolites
Dot lasers
Robotic tripods
Side scan sonars
Tracking lasers
Measuring rods
Telescopic viewers
Automatic levels
Altimeters
Stereoscopes
Single-beam echo sounders

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