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Job Description

Adjust and operate surveying instruments, such as the theodolite and electronic distance-measuring equipment, and compile notes, make sketches and enter data into computers.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3031.01

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surveying Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Rodman”

Operate and manage land-information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.
Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.
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.
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.
Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
Perform calculations to determine earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traverse closures and adjustments, azimuths, level runs, and placement of markers.
Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.
Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.

Related Technology & Tools

Engineering scales
Clinometers
Plotters
Axes
Community base station global positioning systems GPS
Hand levels
Plumb bobs
Tribrach level bubble adjusting blocks
Electrotapes
Measuring rods
Mallets
Magnetic field pipe locators
Desktop computers
Wheeled measuring devices
Triangles
Geological compasses
Barometers
Sight targets
Programmable calculators
Distance meters
Tripods
Fathometer sonar equipment
Optical pendulum levels
Digital cameras
Hatchets
Tribrach optical plummet adjusting cylinders
Geodetic leveling rods
Jackhammers
Chain saws
Laser distance measuring equipment
Electronic digital/bar-code leveling systems
Measuring chains
Total stations
Extensometers
Real-time kinematics RTK global positioning systems GPS
Prisms
Metal detectors
Electronic distance measuring devices
Ranger data collectors
Levels
3D laser scanning systems
Tellurometers
Survey instrument control units
Prism poles
Transit levels
Scanners
Alidades
Multibeam sonar equipment
Handheld data collectors
Pre-programmed coordinate geometry COGO calculators
Echosounders
Machetes
Robotic survey measuring instruments
Plane tables
Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
Side scan sonars
Templates
Personal computers
Theodolites
Portable hydrographic surveying equipment
Notebook computers
Leveling bubbles
Vertical/target rods
Measuring tapes
Telescoping pole saws
Automatic optical pendulum leveling systems
Laser scanner coordinate capturing equipment
Ground vibration sensing equipment
Laser printers
Two way radios
Global positioning system GPS receivers

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