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