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