This is surveying work serving as chief of a survey corps performing construction and/or land surveys. Employees in this class supervise a small group of subordinate employees engaged in measuring and marking assigned areas by locating and fixing lines, angles and elevations to collect data for survey purposes. Employees compute liens and grades and may prepare engineered plans, make estimates and prepare sketches and plans from field notes. Employees have controlling responsibility for the technical aspects of the survey corps work. Work is performed under the supervision of a technical superior.

• Gathers all related office background information to facilitate the conduct of field surveys; plans sequence of operations; insures that survey tools, equipment, vehicles and materials are in good working condition.
• Supervises a small group of subordinate employees engaged in determining exact field measurements and in marking and staking the project area for a variety of surveys such as preliminary, construction, property, tunnel, control, topographic, hydrographic and aerial surveys; trains, instructs, and assists members of the survey corps in the location, marking and staking of survey areas, the use of survey tools and equipment, including the transit, in taking exact measurements and notes, and in making sketches.
• Takes notes at field site concerning line location and topography on preliminary surveys, contour profiles, slopes and grades on construction surveys, and related information for use in design and construction work; makes topographical sketches of the surveyed area; provides contractors with "cut and fill" information and elevation, and establishes curb lines and grades during construction projects; obtains all lines, grades, elevations and locations for the preparation of as-built drawings; makes weather and temperature corrections with standard equipment and charts; makes field sketches of areas surveyed.
• Exercises judgment to effect necessary modifications to previously engineered plans based on conditions found at survey sites.
• Prepares sketches, plans and drawings form field notes and makes necessary calculations for revised lines, grades and arcs.
• Confers with contractors, builders, developers, lawyers and the general public upon matters pertaining to surveys and plans.
• Performs calculations and drafting of survey data as required.
• Performs office work connected with the completion of surveying assignments; prepares plans, checks contracts and estimates, computes quantities, etc.
• Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• the principles, practices, techniques and instruments used in surveying.
• mathematics as it is applied to field surveying and related engineering computations.
• the principles, practices, techniques and instruments of drafting as required in surveying.
• the engineering principles and practices used in surveying.
• supervisory methods and techniques.

SKILL IN:

• the care and use of surveying instruments, tools, materials and equipment.

ABILITY TO:

• supervise and train members of a survey party in the method and techniques of surveying.
• maintain a field notebook containing a complete record of all measurements, with required clarifying sketches and narrations.
• reduce field notes and sketches and to make, read and interpret sketches, maps and plans.
• observe field conditions, to prepare and keep accurate notes and records and to make required oral and written reports.
• learn regulatory codes and regulations affecting the work.
• establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, contractors, builders and the general public.

• Education equivalent to completion of the twelfth school grade.
• Three years of surveying experience, two years of which must have been in the operation of a transit.

Or any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Personnel Department that has included the specific experience described above.

PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required of a position in this class.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND/OR CERTIFICATES

• Possession of a valid proper class motor vehicle operator's license as issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prior to appointment and during tenure of employment as a Surveyor I.

PAY RANGE: EP12
Class Established: 1/1969

Latest Spec. Revision: 3/1987

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