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