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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 “Field Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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