Survey Party Chief

About the role

The Department of Public Works, Engineering Services division is seeking a highly motivated, experienced individual to provide leadership and support in our Survey Section.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a crew of technical staff
• Manage design and construction surveying projects
• Prepare deliverables for City clients
• Prepare legal descriptions and plats for right of way acquisitions
• Direct a survey party in making a variety of surveys including land surveys, topographic surveys, construction surveys, surveys to establish and adjust benchmarks, and surveys to establish and monument street centerlines
• Keep accurate, orderly, and legible field notes of work performed showing lines, angles, distances, benchmarks, mathematical calculations, and other data pertinent to the field survey
• Compute and adjust angles, distances, bearings, traverses, and elevations
• Operate survey instruments and instruct other party members in their operations
• Perform a variety of office surveying duties including researching existing records and compiling data required for current survey projects and computing data to be shown on maps
• Supervise, train, and evaluate the performance of technical subordinates

Requirements

• Extensive experience in general land surveying practices including; design topographic surveys, construction staking, boundary surveying, and preparation of legal descriptions and plats
• Skilled at supervising and coaching survey technicians performing survey field work

Qualifications

• Knowledge of: Surveying methods, practices, and techniques. Legal aspects of surveying. Algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Elementary principles and practices of engineering as related to surveying. Sources of information concerning previous land surveys. Principles of supervision, training, and performance evaluation. Personal computers, including surveying software. Current generation of field survey computers.
• Ability To Understand and interpret legal descriptions and record survey maps. Understand and interpret engineering plans, diagrams, and notes. Use and care for surveying instruments and equipment. Make accurate and legible field survey notes. Perform complex mathematical calculations with speed and accuracy. Plan and organize the work of a field survey party to achieve optimum efficiency. Supervise, train, and evaluate subordinate field survey personnel.

Skills

• Knowledge of surveying methods, practices, and techniques.
• Legal aspects of surveying.
• Algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Elementary principles and practices of engineering as related to surveying.
• Sources of information concerning previous land surveys.
• Principles of supervision, training, and performance evaluation.
• Personal computers, including surveying software.
• Current generation of field survey computers.

Benefits

• Driver License: A valid California Class C Driver License at the time of appointment.

Pay

• Salary schedule available on the City of Sacramento HR website.

Schedule

• Information regarding the schedule is available on the City of Sacramento HR website.