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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
- 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 “Professional Surveyor”
- Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
- Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
- 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.
- Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
- Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
- Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
- 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.
- Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
- Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
- Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
- Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
- Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
- Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
- Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
- 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.
- Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
- Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
- Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
- Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
Related Technology & Tools
- Direct elevation rods
- Side scan sonars
- Digital laser rangefinders
- Automatic levels
- Prismless total stations
- Single-beam transducers
- Mechanical theodolites
- Tribrachs
- Laptop computers
- Visible beam lasers
- Total stations
- Clinometers
- Measuring rods
- Integrated global positioning systems GPS
- Single-beam echo sounders
- Magnetic locators
- Tracking lasers
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Pocket personal computers PC
- Gammon reels
- Rotary lasers
- Abney levels
- Laser plumb bobs
- Right-angle prisms
- Tripods
- Geological compasses
- Dot lasers
- Telescopic viewers
- Robotic tripods
- Stereoscopes
- Robotic total stations
- Double right-angle prisms
- Altimeters
- Laser scanners
- Line lasers
- Curvimeters
- Surveyors leveling rods
- Distance meters
- Philadelphia rods
- Electronic digital levels
- San Francisco rods
- Two way radios
- Measuring tapes
- Transit levels
- Pocket transits
- Rod levels
- Hand levels
- Planimeters
- Electronic digital theodolites
- Elevator tripods
- Reflectorless total stations
- Barometers
- Handheld measuring lasers
- Invisible beam lasers
- Digital measuring poles
- Plumb bobs
- Depth gauge tapes
- Road measuring wheels
- Long range reflectorless total stations
- Machetes
- Automatic slope lasers
- Prism poles
- Sokkia Spectrum Survey Suite
- Sokkia G2
- MicroSurveyCAD
- Sokkia Imap
- Bentley GeoPak Bridge
- PC-Mapper software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Internet browser software
- HYPACK HYSWEEP
- CMT Incorporated CogoCAD
- Project data integration software
- Project analysis and costing software
- Bentley Systems InRoads Suite
- Autodesk AutoCAD Land Desktop
- Trimble Terramodel
- Drafting software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Data transfer software
- Microsoft Word
- Topographic database software
- Carlson Survey
- Spreadsheet software
- Data logging software
- Cyclone
- ESRI ArcView
- HYPACK MAX
- Crones & Associations Project Tracker Pro
- Carlson SurvCE
- MicroSurvey FieldGenius
- CE Surveyor III
- Cadcorp desktop GIS
- Global positioning system GPS software
- CloudWorks
- Sharetech Tabs Plus
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
- Trimble HydroPro
- Surface modeling software
- Bentley MicroStation
- Latitude software
- Geodetic software
- Microsoft Excel
- Survey software
- Microsoft Office
- Geocomp Systems GeoNav
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- Carlson SurvCADD