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Job Description

Adjust and operate surveying instruments, such as the theodolite and electronic distance-measuring equipment, and compile notes, make sketches and enter data into computers.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3031.01

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surveying Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Engineering Assistant”

Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.
Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.
Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.
Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.
Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.
Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.
Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.
Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.

Related Technology & Tools

Geodetic leveling rods
Wheeled measuring devices
Plotters
Echosounders
Automatic optical pendulum leveling systems
Ranger data collectors
Measuring chains
Clinometers
Real-time kinematics RTK global positioning systems GPS
Plane tables
Robotic survey measuring instruments
Scanners
Measuring tapes
Two way radios
Notebook computers
Levels
Total stations
Triangles
Sight targets
Measuring rods
Chain saws
Hatchets
Templates
Survey instrument control units
Engineering scales
Electronic distance measuring devices
Distance meters
Tribrach optical plummet adjusting cylinders
Transit levels
Community base station global positioning systems GPS
Multibeam sonar equipment
Ground vibration sensing equipment
Tribrach level bubble adjusting blocks
3D laser scanning systems
Side scan sonars
Prism poles
Laser distance measuring equipment
Alidades
Tellurometers
Electronic digital/bar-code leveling systems
Desktop computers
Optical pendulum levels
Metal detectors
Programmable calculators
Axes
Laser printers
Portable hydrographic surveying equipment
Prisms
Global positioning system GPS receivers
Telescoping pole saws
Laser scanner coordinate capturing equipment
Theodolites
Pre-programmed coordinate geometry COGO calculators
Electrotapes
Mallets
Geological compasses
Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
Plumb bobs
Hand levels
Extensometers
Personal computers
Leveling bubbles
Vertical/target rods
Machetes
Handheld data collectors
Fathometer sonar equipment
Barometers
Jackhammers
Digital cameras
Magnetic field pipe locators
Tripods

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