3F15
ASSISTANT SURVEYOR AND REGULATOR

This is surveying and administrative work supervising, through subordinate supervisors, the activities of survey corps in an assigned street survey district. An employee in this class functions under a district supervisor in an assigned survey district and is responsible for coordinating and supervising the day-to-day work of a moderately-sized staff of field and office personnel engaged in activities affecting plans, records, computations, lines, and grades. Conferring with contractors and residents in explaining or interpreting applicable surveying and regulating codes or costs is a significant aspect of the work.

An employee in this class participates with his supervisor in determining and regulating lines and grades in an assigned district and assumes district direction in the latter's absence. Work is performed under the general supervision of a technical superior.

• Positions must perform surveying and administrative work supervising, through subordinate supervisors, the activities of survey corps in an assigned street survey district.
• Employees must perform the work in the Streets Department.

• Receives work orders from the public through official applications or technical superiors; discusses problem areas with supervisor and sets up schedules for work completion.
• Assigns work, either directly or through subordinate supervisory personnel, to field survey corps, engaged in staking out properties, gathering information for drafting purposes, and estimating contractor work completion for partial and final payment; to draftsmen, engaged in preparing drawings for the construction, alteration or major repair work on streets and related road features, and to clerical employees, engaged in processing correspondence, reports and bills.
• Reviews progress of survey corps through discussion with subordinate supervisors; suggests resolutions to problems, making field trips when necessary; reviews architectural and other types of plans for correctness of scale and inclusion of proper features such as utility access; reworks calculations of estimated materials.
• Regulates the optimum placement of property lines with approval of superior.
• Attends meetings to discuss and approve or disapprove changes in the official plans of the street system.
• Confers with individuals and groups to explain departmental programs and the application of state and local laws affecting existing and/or proposed buildings, driveways, alleys, property sub-divisions, etc.
• Computes assessment charges for submission to superiors against real property according to ordinances of applicable regulations; estimates cost of action related to changes in confirmed city plan; determines cost charges to firms or members of the general public for architectural plans or work not covered by ordinances.
• Trains new employees in technical aspects of drafting and assigns them to a subordinate supervisor for orientation to surveying practices; resolves disciplinary problems.
• Maintains progress reports and records.
• Signs and stamps for approval survey plans and drawings in the absence of superior.
• 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 and practices of public administration as they relate to regulating property lines and supervising surveying activities within a survey district
• the principles, practices, techniques and instruments of engineering drafting and computer assisted drafting as required in surveying
• engineering principles and practices used in the preparation of estimates and certification of contract work performance as related to street, alley and driveway construction and repair
• supervisory methods and techniques
• state and local laws relating to real estate conveyance and land title work
ABILITY TO:
• plan and supervise the operations of a group of survey parties performing construction and/or land surveys
• read and interpret plans, blueprints, maps and specifications
• resolve the more complex field survey, estimating and related mathematical and drafting problems encountered in survey district activities
• explain codes and ordinances firmly, tactfully and impartially
• establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and the general public
• express ideas effectively both orally and in writing

EDUCATION
• Education equivalent to completion of the twelfth school grade.
AND
GENERAL EXPERIENCE
• Six years of surveying experience.
AND
SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
• Two years of survey work supervising the field work of two or more survey corps in a survey district,

OR

• Two years of drafting experience at the Streets Plans Designer I level making scale drawings or computer assisted drafting and designs of new and revised streets systems or sub-divisions from legal descriptions and councilmanic ordinances.

OR

Any equivalent combination of education and experience that has included the education and specific experience described above.

CLASS (ES) WHICH TYPICALLY MEET THE SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS CLASS IS (ARE):

• SURVEYOR 2
• STREETS PLAN DESIGNER 1

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

• Registration as a professional land surveyor as issued by the Pennsylvania State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs prior to appointment and during tenure of employment as an Assistant Surveyor and Regulator.