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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 “Compass Operator”

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

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