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