Land Surveyor | Bureau of Reclamation

Serves as project leader on a variety of land surveys and mapping projects. Establishes, investigates, and reestablishes land and property boundaries and prepares plats and legal descriptions for tracts of land.

Coordinates and integrates separate phases of each survey project.

Performs surveys in the full field-to-finish mode, using electronic data collection and computer based measurement software.

Examines physical evidence recovered in the field and assesses its acceptability with the support of recorded historical documents for positioning boundaries or resolving disputes. Evaluates the results for all computations and display of results.

As part of the Safety of Dams program, oversees and/or performs structural behavior monitoring of major structures within the Region.

Compiles topographic and/or planimetric maps for small contour interval and large-scale maps.

Establishes a control network comprised of geodetic and supplemental control points to be used by other surveyors to fix the horizontal and vertical datums for production of large-scale topographic maps.