Supervising Land Surveyor

Job Description:

Supervising Land Surveyor

Description

Examples of Duties and Responsibilities

The following duties are considered essential for this job classification:

• Supervise, select, train and evaluate professional and technical staff in the Survey Section;
• plan, assign and evaluate the work of survey crews in making a variety of surveys, including surveys to determine locations of property lines, boundaries, easements, and right-of-ways, topographic surveys to determine locations and elevations of existing improvements, structures, and topographic features for project design, construction surveys to establish line and grade for improvement projects, high order control surveys to establish horizontal and vertical control monuments, and surveys to establish and monument street center lines;
• inspect project sites to assist in solution of difficult problems;
• provide scope, schedule and cost estimates for project-specific work of the Survey Section and manage the work based on the agreed scope, schedule and budget;
• coordinate survey and right-of-way related activities with other City departments, divisions and sections and with outside agencies;
• research, interpret and apply the City code and State and Federal laws and regulations related to land surveying activities and right-of-way documents;
• be in responsible charge of the Survey Section and prepare, sign, and record appropriate record documents pertaining to survey activities, as required by the California Land Surveyors Act;
• direct the taking, interpretation, and reduction of accurate survey field notes;
• compute and adjust angles, distances, bearings, traverses, and elevations;
• perform a variety of complex office surveying duties, including researching existing records, compiling data required for current survey projects, and computing data to be shown on maps;
• develop and manage the annual budget for the assigned Section;
• prepare survey-related and right-of-way-related Requests For Proposals and Project Work Orders, participate in or make the selection, and manage contracts with consulting land surveyors and right-of-way agents;
• oversee survey research and recordkeeping;
• apply computer technology used in survey work;
• prepare and present survey-related agenda items for the City Council, Planning Commission, Board of Public Utilities, other boards and commissions, committees, outside agencies, and property owners on City land surveying matters;
• in the absence of the incumbent, may serve as Deputy Director – Capital Projects Engineering; and
• perform related duties as assigned.

Salary:

$119,495.00