Description
Measure and map land to establish and document property boundaries and topography for design, construction, land development, and legal purposes. Collect, analyze, and certify survey data, produce plats and legal descriptions, and coordinate with engineers, planners, and clients.
- • Compute and adjust traverses and level loops; perform QA/QC on survey data.
- • Develop and standardize field and office survey methods and procedures.
- • Collaborate on subdivision design; prepare plats and lot corner calculations.
- • Provide construction layout for grading, utilities, and structures; verify as-built conditions.
- • Prepare and submit survey maps for recordation and regulatory approval.
- • Serve as an expert witness on land boundary and survey matters, when required.
- • Ensure compliance with state surveying laws, standards, and safety practices.
- • Prepare and maintain plats, maps, sketches, reports, and legal descriptions of boundary and topographic surveys, certifying work performed.
- • Verify the accuracy of field measurements and calculations.
- • Conduct boundary surveys based on deeds, titles, and record evidence; resolve discrepancies.
- • Record and process survey data on shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions.
- • Calculate positions, elevations, property lines, and terrain features.
- • Prepare or supervise CAD drafting and data management of survey deliverables.
- • Write metes-and-bounds descriptions and exhibits for deeds, easements, and rights-of-way.
- • Plan and perform control, boundary, topographic, and construction staking surveys.
- • Research deeds, plats, survey records, and land titles to establish boundary evidence.
- • Coordinate findings with civil engineers, planners, architects, contractors, and clients.
- • Adjust, calibrate, and maintain total stations, levels, GNSS/GPS receivers, and other instruments.
- • Establish and monument control points and benchmarks for mapping and construction.
- • Determine coordinates using GNSS/GPS, total stations, and levels; apply datums and projections.
- • Train, lead, and schedule field crews and CAD technicians.
- • Analyze project scope and specifications; prepare survey proposals, cost estimates, and schedules.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
