Land Surveyor

Overview

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites
• Direct or conduct surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain
• Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements
• Analyze survey objectives and specifications in order to prepare survey prop...