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