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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 “Levelman”

Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.
Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
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.
Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
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.
Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
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.
Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.
Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.
Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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