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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 “Mineral Surveyor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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