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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 Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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