Licensed Surveyor

About the role

In this position, you will provide professional land surveying expertise as a licensed surveyor within the Public Works Department's City Engineering Division, with a primary focus on development review, annexations, and support for the City's capital improvement program.

Responsibilities

• Review subdivision plats, annexation documents, easements, legal descriptions, exhibits, and associated agreements to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and City standards.
• Prepare annexation plats, legal descriptions, easement documents, and other survey-related deliverables for City-led projects.
• Serve as the City's surveying subject matter expert by representing the City in coordination meetings with developers, consultants, utilities, and other agencies regarding capital projects, right-of-way encroachments, property acquisitions, and survey control.
• Oversee the management, maintenance, and integrity of the City's survey records and geospatial data to support engineering, development, and infrastructure projects.
• Establish, maintain, and verify horizontal and vertical survey control using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS/GPS) technology, conventional surveying methods, and Trimble Business Center or similar survey software.
• Prepare or provide professional review and oversight of legal descriptions, easement documents, plats, survey exhibits, and boundary information.
• Maintain responsible charge of municipal surveying activities and survey data, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, preservation, and accessibility of survey records, monumentation, control networks, and geospatial information.
• Restore, maintain, and perpetuate public land survey monuments and survey control in accordance with Colorado law, federal standards, and accepted professional surveying practices.
• Participate in project scoping, design coordination, property acquisition, right-of-way, and capital improvement project meetings, providing technical surveying expertise throughout project development and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, development review procedures, surveying practices, and document management systems, and recommend solutions that improve efficiency and customer service.
• Foster positive working relationships through effective communication, collaboration, mentoring, and responsive customer service while maintaining the highest standards of professional ethics and technical competence.
• Represent the City of Colorado Springs in a professional surveyor capacity with developers, consultants, the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado (PLSC), internal departments, utilities, and local, state, and federal agencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in a related area of study.
• Five years of full-time, professional experience in a related field.
• Currently possess, or obtain upon hire, and maintain a valid, non-probationary driver’s license not subject to restrictions.
• Currently possess, or obtain upon hire, and maintain a valid Colorado Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) License.

Qualifications

• Experience with AutoCAD and other Drafting/GIS/mapping software.
• Pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations.
• Ability to apply professional land surveyor knowledge, evaluate and assess issues in a timely manner, and review entitlement applications.

Skills

• Microsoft Suite.
• AutoCAD.
• Accela.
• Digeplan.
• OpenGov.

Benefits

We are an accredited pay equity employer! Your starting pay will be within the posted hiring range based on your years of experience and education.

Pay

$78,464.38 - $94,194.93 Annually

Schedule

Classified - Full Time