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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”

Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
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.
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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