Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
Professional Land Surveyor Duties & Responsibilities
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Professional Land Surveyor Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Professional Land Surveyor
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PLS
Education for Professional Land Surveyor
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Employers hiring for the professional land surveyor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Surveying, Education, Engineering, Wildlife, Geology, Oceanography, Associates, Information Sciences, Graduate, Civil Engineering
Skills for Professional Land Surveyor
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Professional Land Surveyor Examples
Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
- Develop short and long-range plans for Oregon's Vertical Control development, restoration, and maintenance
- Work with the Lead Geodetic Surveyor in developing standards and procedures to establish and restore the Vertical Control Network
- Recommend appropriate action for bench marks in danger of destruction
- Monitor ODOT construction/project development activity for Vertical Control needs and potential destruction of bench marks
- Provide expertise, administration, and oversight on ODOT and consultant Vertical Control surveys
- Manage the vertical control record and retrieval system
- Plan, schedule, and complete location, construction, and right of way monumentation surveys for assigned projects and transportation facilities
- Review progress of field survey work and provide technical advice or guidance
- Research, compile, and analyze ODOT and other agency surveys, maps, plats, plans deeds, and field survey data
- Determine location of highway centerlines and property boundaries
- Perform mission planning and coordinate field work for survey crews
- Review construction plans and perform calculations for layout staking and prepare exhibits
- Perform survey data processing and review of field work for projects
- Compile topographic information, compute and manipulate digital terrain models for topographic mapping
- Prepare and/or oversee the preparation of final maps, parcel maps, record of survey and ALTA maps
- Perform or assist with field work for surveying projects of all types
Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
- Review and recommend acceptance or corrections to maps and survey documents prepared by consultants
- Stamp surveys for submittal to the county surveyor's office
- Develop right of way base maps
- Apply project design elements to right of way drawings
- Serve as a technical resource on project development teams
- Prepare control, recovery, and survey maps for filing with county surveyors
- Prepare work order contracts
- Drive sales efforts to find and secure new survey business (including presentations and detailed technical discussions)
- Recruit and train survey personnel (including ongoing assessments)
- Walk-down sites prior to field execution and liaise directly with client personnel
- Prepare field personnel for job executions and be at site with the teams when necessary
- Carry out preparations and complete survey deliverables
- Carry out appropriate training of field and office personnel
- Maintain all equipment (hardware) and software licenses
- Support all Surveying Service activities (Dimensional Control, Laser Scanning, Topographic, 3-D Metrology, and 3-D Modeling)
- Oversee application of HSE Management (office and field personnel)
Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
- Establish budgets and prepare proposals
- Coordinate and supervise field operations
- Preparation of reports, metes and bounds and drawings
- Construction staking services
- QA/QC of survey work performed
- Certify work performed and assume legal responsibility
- Active in business development to secure future projects
- Provide training and instruction in field location and construction survey automation procedures
- Ensure proper and efficient use of electronic survey equipment by working directly with survey crews
- Process and analyze survey data by working directly with office engineering personnel using computer design and drafting equipment
- Experienced with all relevant forms of survey technology (hardware and software)
- Registered Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Texas is essential and required
- Advanced Auto-Cad knowledge
- Must be strong in communication skills and well organized
- Experienced with facilitation of training and coaching
- Advanced knowledge of preparations of detailed survey documents
Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
- Maintain knowledge of all aspects of surveying, highway design, highway construction, boundary monumentation, federal government requirements, and related Oregon laws
- Provide technical assistance related to ODOT survey procedures to internal and external stakeholders
- Work with survey vendors to maintain current on new developments and technology and provide information and serve as a technical resource for field personnel
- Work with other sections of ODOT to coordinate activities related to automation
- Ensures timely and accurate delivery of each project
- Manages day-to- day operation aspects of each surveying project and scope
- Minimizes exposure and risk on projects
- Verify mathematical calculations
- Calculate geographic positions from survey data
- Gather physical survey data
- Experience in executing survey work in plants and refineries would be an advantage
- Work is composed of section breakdowns, metes and bounds, ALTA Commercial Surveys, residential title surveys, lot surveys, topographic surveys
- Must have knowledge of the principles, practices and techniques of surveying (Including boundary determination), mapping, construction staking, & ALTA surveys
- Must have knowledge of the principles and practices of administrative management, including budgeting, employee supervision and training
- Must have skill in operating a personal computer and a variety of software applications including drafting, word processing, spreadsheets and database software
- Work requires continual attention to detail in project management, analytical skills, complex problem solving skills, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines
Professional Land Surveyor Job Description
- Document technical design details
- Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features
- Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects
- Coordinate activities with suppliers, contractors, clients, or other departments
- Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments
- Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy
- Analyze physical, survey, or geographic data
- Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures
- Determine operational criteria or specifications
- Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments
- Professional experience in surveying, including two (2)years of supervisory or lead experience
- Currently Licensed Professional Surveyor in California
- Familiar with AutoCAD/LDD
- Experienced in boundary surveys, final maps, ALTA surveys, legal descriptions and construction staking
- PLS or RPLS for the state of TN required
- Minimum of four (4) years’ experience in Construction Survey, Dimensional Control, Industrial Measurement, or a related field is required