Surveyor - PLS required

Description

• Research legal and survey records to obtain information about property boundaries; including deeds, easements, vacations, dedications, Right of Ways, riparian rights, etc; resolving boundaries using accepted boundary and legal principles, and case, state, and federal laws.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as maps, tables, charts, reports, models, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of data, findings, or analyses.
• Use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• Develop effective working relationships with regulatory agencies, clients, communities, subcontractors, and technical staff in a confident and professional manner.
• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and adhere to professional conduct and KLJ’s policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with guidelines and project-specific procedures which include but are not limited to, the maintenance of any data collection, database, documentation, logbooks, and the management of a digital library of geographic survey maps in various file types.
• Actively engage in business development and proposal writing on assigned initiatives.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to address, prevent, control, or remediate physical and geographic site issues on assigned projects.
• Coordinate the modeling and preparation of survey maps, graphs, and tabular data using aerial photographs, GPS, and other tools and data to determine exact locations of project areas, site impact, and associated physical and geographic sensitivities.
• Comprehend and create legal descriptions; assisting in the preparation of legal documents related to land ownership and property boundaries.
• Prepare and complete land survey segments, topographic mapping, and construction staking preparation pertaining to impact assessment and/or construction activities for assigned projects.
• Reduce and process field notes, sketches, checklists, and digital data in required formats for Project Managers, Survey Technicians, and GIS/ Drafting staff.
• Oversee existing survey equipment, maintaining and ensuring proper calibration and functionality.
• Oversee quality control standards and procedures for accurate and precise survey measurements, documentation, and analysis of incoming and existent data.
• Perform professional land survey work and site investigations, observations, studies, and surveys to gain further information relating to digital mapping, merging topographical data with external data, verifying site conditions and characteristics, and validating and signing off on the authenticity of spatial data.
• Remain current in latest survey practices, methods, procedures, subject matter, and techniques.
• Lead, conduct, and review surveys and reports from survey teams, field sites, property/utility records, deeds, land/property titles, structural plans, and other matrices for project research and investigation.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams in executing project work, including project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, and task completion.
• Work with field and office personnel, both as a team member and independently, to produce a Record of Surveys, Short Plats, Long Plats, Final Plats, Boundary Line Adjustments, easement exhibits, and any document required for project completion.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of relevant post-education experience in discipline with prior surveying experience in a corporate environment with easements, rights of way, plats, topographic surveys, boundary surveys, property descriptions, and GPS surveys.
• Frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds.
• Be able to walk on uneven terrain up to ten miles per day.
• Associate Degree in Surveying, GIS, or a related field.
• Proficiency with survey equipment and instruments, Auto Cad, Civil 3D, as well as Microsoft Office suite and other technological tools.
• Strong analytical skills and prior demonstrated experience with research techniques, modeling data, scanning and digitizing files, and experience maintaining records and databases for assigned projects required.
• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical work week
• Advanced proficiency with relevant codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
• Professional Survey Licensure required.
• Established experience coordinating with clients, regulatory and resource agencies, communities, and technical staff required.
• Advanced proficiency with of land survey principles, practices, process, methods and techniques.
• Highly capable self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Experience supporting project managers and serving as deputy project manager.
• Strong expertise with digitalized mapping, fieldwork (survey), data analysis, spatial relationship identification and evaluation.
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from research, survey results, data collation, and identifying the most effective solutions to accomplish objectives of assigned projects.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Experience with public and private sector work (e.g. state, city, county, utility districts, and private land development)
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly.
• Demonstrated experience leading and reviewing technical reports, survey and mapping efforts, impact evaluations, siting reports, and permit applications for assigned segments/project work.
• Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance