Registered Land Surveyor (Exempt)

Navajo Nation preference for qualified Navajo veterans.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED Certificate
• Vocational/Specialized Training
• Land Surveyor License required in Arizona, New Mexico, and/or Utah
• CFEDS License preferred
• 5 years of experience in Surveying/Legal Surveying
• Experience in the interpretation of design and construction manuals and standards; ability to recognize features in the field
• Valid Driver’s License (subject to motor vehicle record review)

Responsibilities

• Determines methods and procedures for establishing or reestablishing survey control and the accuracy of all surveys performed for the Authority
• Coordinates findings with work of engineering personnel, clients, and others concerned with project
• Prepares and maintains accurate notes, sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify the survey work
• Verifies the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites, and assumes legal responsibility for the survey work
• Directs or conducts surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds, grant of easement, and/or withdrawals
• Records the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features
• Calculates heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain
• Prepares or supervises preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys
• Writes descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents
• Plans and conducts ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements
• Searches legal records, survey records, and land withdrawals to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed
• Adjusts surveying instruments in order to maintain their accuracy
• Establishes fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments
• Determines longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS)
• Trains personnel and directs their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps
• Analyzes survey objectives and specifications in order to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation
• Computes geodetic measurements and interprets survey data in order to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features
• Develops criteria for survey methods and procedures
• Develops criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments
• Conducts research in surveying and mapping methods (GLO and/or BLM)
• May use aerial survey equipment of specified geographical areas, if available
• Determines specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain, if required
• Performs other duties as assigned