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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 “Chain Person”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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