Survey Technician Job Description
Survey Technician Duties & Responsibilities
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Survey Technician Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Survey Technician
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Education for Survey Technician
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Employers hiring for the survey technician 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, Construction, Industrial Technology, Drafting, Mathematics, Geography, Physical Science, Forestry
Skills for Survey Technician
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Survey Technician Examples
Survey Technician Job Description
- Ensure that survey layout matches design within allowable tolerances, that appropriate measures have been taken to assure quality survey execution, and that measures are documented
- Prepare reports as per scope of work Layout, pre-pour and as-built reports
- Obtain approval from QC Coordinators before submitting any reports to Document Control
- Perform survey calculations for piles, anchor bolts, foundation, and grading based on client-supplied Issued for Construction (IFC) drawings
- Perform earthwork volume calculations as per survey data and grading plan
- Prepare survey plans for topographic surveys, underground buried structures and asbuilts
- Create alignments, profiles, and corridors as per client-supplied IFC drawings
- Prepare files for field layout including .csv, .rxl, .dxf, .ttm
- Redline as-built drawings
- Attend Quality meetings
- FDOT standards
- Technical degree or equivalent in experience
- Report any quality incident and/or opportunities for improvement to Technical Services Manager and QC Coordinators
- Ensure LEMS are prepared daily and office time is entered daily
- A measurement wheel and will be used to determine and note footages between poles, pedestals
- Bachelor's degree in Biology, Natural Resources, Wildlife Biology, Zoology, or related field
Survey Technician Job Description
- Perform some office duties, data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks and staking computations using Civil3D, MicroStation, and Trimble Business Center
- Conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements, based on legal deeds and titles
- Knowledge of surveying practices and principles and the operation of various survey instruments
- Aerial survey will require the use of a high stick to measure attachment heights of each utility company (supported by pictures)
- Also know NESC codes and violations
- Carry out CAD drafting for legal and topographic survey plans
- Calculations of 3D surfaces for volume calculations creation of Air Space plans
- Insure proper survey procedures are used to perform survey task
- Provide proper documentation of field work in field book, sketches, and photographs
- Assisting in recovery of survey control and monumentation, construction layout, and photo documentation of the project area
- Able to use hand or power tools (i.e., shovels, sledge hammers, machetes, chains saws, sub-surface locating devices, probe bars, ), to locate facilities, clear lines and set ground markers
- Able to operate all survey vehicles
- Able to see
- Able to hear oral communication, either in person or on equipment, such as a telephone, mobile phone, radio or walkie-talkie
- Able to bend, climb, crouch, reach or squat occasionally
- Able to stand, walk, and kneel for extended periods of time
Survey Technician Job Description
- Remain current on surveying practices, guidelines, and best management practices
- Mentor field staff
- Assist with office tasks including but not limited to CAD drafting, data download, deed and map research, and filing
- Collects and inputs field data into electronic job folders
- Interprets deeds, maps, field notes, to insure proper location of boundaries and/or company facilities
- Analyzes electronic data and performs mathematical adjustments
- Determines boundary easement location between private and company ownerships
- Perpares maps, sketches, plats and metes & bounds descriptions of company interests
- Prepares legal reports, maps and plats for architecture, engineering, enviromental, legal and service consultants
- Creates, updates, and maintains company easement and property rights on maps and GIS system
- Outdoor work environment subject to hot/cold temperatures and uneven terrain
- Must have strong oral and written communication skill and ability to work in a team environment
- Able to use probe bars for staking and locating facilities up to 7 hr
- Able to lift, carry and use locating equipment – up to 30 lbs
- Able to lift, carry, and load supplies on to truck – up to 30 lbs
- Ability to drive hubs, stakes, lathes, rods into the ground, using hammers that weigh up to
Survey Technician Job Description
- Delineates routes, areas, and sites for fee and easement acquisitions which supports gas operations
- Perform field measurements as part of a survey crew as required
- Work primarily in the office on drafting, research, data reduction, field note reduction and analysis, calculations, data and other related survey drawings using AutoCAD, (Microstation, ArcGIS a plus) and other incidental survey programs
- May occasionally work in the field on control, boundary, right-of-way, topographic and construction surveys, as Party Chief of a one, two or three-person field crew in urban and remote areas
- Operate all survey instruments with a high degree of proficiency, performing all types of surveys common to the construction survey practice
- Provide Construction Survey support to Survey Engineer/Party Chief
- Rod Person and/or Instrument Person on a 2 or 3 person direct-hire survey crew
- Perform duties of a Party Chief on a 2 or 3 person direct-hire survey crew if required
- Assist the Survey Engineer/Party Chief in the accurate layout of construction work, recordation of field data according to job specifications and appropriate methods of performing survey activities
- Assist the Survey Engineer/Party Chief in providing support to both Field Engineering and Field Supervision
- An interest in avian research and conservation
- Ability to work with and interpret maps
- Proficiency in AutoCAD is required, with experience in Civil3D or Carlson Software a plus
- Able to stand or walk for much of the work day
- Able to stoop, squat, kneel or crouch
- Able to use a variety of hand tools and power tools including picks, shovels, sharp-shooters, pipe wrenches, pipe cutters, bolt cutters, pavement saws, jack hammers, air guns, pounding bar, leak detection instruments
Survey Technician Job Description
- Participate in the implementation of the project safety, quality and environmental programs
- Assist in developing and maintaining all site survey data
- Assist with performing and/or checking survey computations as required in the performance of duties
- Assist in administration of the survey work request program
- Assist in providing Civil project completion documentation including "As-Built" records
- Assist in performing verifications of subcontract survey control points and work
- Actively participate in training activities as required
- Verifying current information about permit and landowners
- Compiling an upgrade/installation request package for the site based on documentation provided by the USGS
- Initiating contact with landowner, including conversations about costs, access arrangements, and timing of the upgrades
- Previous experience as a survey technician is highly desired but is not required
- The ability to work in a variety of climate conditions including hot and cold weather
- Position requires the ability to carry approximately 25 pounds of survey equipment and the ability to stand or walk over rugged terrain for extended periods of time
- Prepare ALTA, boundary and topographic surveys, final plats, Right-of-Way surveys and plans, legal descriptions and exhibits on surveying projects in the public/municipal and private land development sectors
- Perform survey data processing and compile topographic information, compute and manipulate digital terrain models for topographic mapping
- Perform surveying related research, boundary analysis and calculations for a variety of public/municipal and private land development projects