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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”
- Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
- 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.
- 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.
- Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
- 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.
- Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
- Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
- Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
- Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
- Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
- Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
- Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
- Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
- 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.
- 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.
- Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
- Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
- Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hand levels
- Automatic levels
- Robotic total stations
- Plumb bobs
- Road measuring wheels
- Machetes
- Side scan sonars
- Surveyors leveling rods
- Integrated global positioning systems GPS
- Visible beam lasers
- Pocket personal computers PC
- Digital measuring poles
- Laser plumb bobs
- Tripods
- Rotary lasers
- Barometers
- Reflectorless total stations
- Robotic tripods
- Abney levels
- Invisible beam lasers
- Right-angle prisms
- Prismless total stations
- Direct elevation rods
- Distance meters
- Telescopic viewers
- Handheld measuring lasers
- Laser scanners
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Mechanical theodolites
- Gammon reels
- Electronic digital theodolites
- Curvimeters
- Long range reflectorless total stations
- Transit levels
- Laptop computers
- Rod levels
- Altimeters
- Electronic digital levels
- Clinometers
- Total stations
- Pocket transits
- Single-beam transducers
- Geological compasses
- Single-beam echo sounders
- Elevator tripods
- Depth gauge tapes
- Line lasers
- Automatic slope lasers
- Measuring rods
- San Francisco rods
- Planimeters
- Tribrachs
- Digital laser rangefinders
- Magnetic locators
- Tracking lasers
- Two way radios
- Stereoscopes
- Measuring tapes
- Philadelphia rods
- Prism poles
- Dot lasers
- Double right-angle prisms
- Bentley GeoPak Bridge
- PC-Mapper software
- Trimble HydroPro
- CMT Incorporated CogoCAD
- ESRI ArcView
- Cyclone
- Cadcorp desktop GIS
- Microsoft Word
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Project analysis and costing software
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Project data integration software
- HYPACK MAX
- MicroSurvey FieldGenius
- Sharetech Tabs Plus
- Latitude software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- CloudWorks
- Microsoft Excel
- Carlson Survey
- Data logging software
- Bentley MicroStation
- Internet browser software
- Carlson SurvCE
- Survey software
- Microsoft Office
- Drafting software
- Spreadsheet software
- Bentley Systems InRoads Suite
- HYPACK HYSWEEP
- Autodesk AutoCAD Land Desktop
- CE Surveyor III
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- Carlson SurvCADD
- Geodetic software
- Sokkia Imap
- MicroSurveyCAD
- Crones & Associations Project Tracker Pro
- Topographic database software
- Geocomp Systems GeoNav
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Data transfer software
- Trimble Terramodel
- NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Sokkia Spectrum Survey Suite
- Surface modeling software
- Sokkia G2