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