Survey CAD Technician

Tasks

• Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.

• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.

• 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.

• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.

• Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.

• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.

• Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.

• Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.

• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.

• Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.

• Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.

• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.

• Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.

• Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.

• Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.

• Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.

• Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.

• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.

• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.

Skills

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.

• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.

• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

• Engineering and Technology - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

• Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

• Building and Construction - Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

• Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

• Geography - Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

• Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

• Law and Government - Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.