Surveyor (Belleview)

Description

Summary: Crew Chiefs and Instrument Operators perform surveying tasks, operate instruments, collect data, and conduct field surveys, often involving manual labor. Highlights: 1. Operate and adjust surveying instruments like prisms and theodolites 2. Conduct surveys of natural and man-made features 3. Aid in developing field survey methods and procedures A. Crew Chiefs • Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance measuring equipment. • Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information. • Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans. • 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. • Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties. • Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls. • Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews. • Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods. • 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. • Aid in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys. • Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings. • Search for section corners, property corners, and survey points. • Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation. • Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data. • Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes. • Responsible for accurate bench and cross-section elevations. B. Instrument Operators • Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment. • Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information. • Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans. • 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. • Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews. • Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods. • 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. • Search for section corners, property corners, and survey points. • Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation. • Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations. • Load and unload necessary equipment for the day’s tasks.