Adjust and operate surveying instruments, such as the theodolite and electronic distance-measuring equipment, and compile notes, make sketches and enter data into computers.
<ul><li>Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.</li><li>Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.</li><li>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.</li><li>Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.</li><li>Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.</li><li>Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.</li><li>Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.</li><li>Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.</li><li>Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.</li><li>Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.</li><li>Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.</li><li>Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.</li><li>Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.</li><li>Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.</li><li>Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.</li><li>Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.</li><li>Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.</li><li>Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.</li><li>Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.</li></ul>