Surveying Technicians

Tasks Include:

• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
• Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.
• Record survey measurements and descriptive data using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
• Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
• Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
• Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
• Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
• Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.

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