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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 “Survey Party Chief”

Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
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.
Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.
Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
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.
Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.
Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.
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.
Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.
Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.

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

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