What are the responsibilities and job description for the Survey Technician position at Harris County?
Position Description
Job Summary:
The Harris County Flood Control District is seeking qualified candidates for the role of Survey Technician.
This position is responsible for providing survey-related support to the field survey crew and for performing specialized and complex professional survey engineering work for the District's survey department.
Essential Functions & Duties:
https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx
If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or email ADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net .
This position is subject to a criminal history check. Only relevant convictions will be considered and, even when considered, may not automatically disqualify the candidate.
Requirements
Education and Experience:
Preferences
Position Type:
The physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.
Job Summary:
The Harris County Flood Control District is seeking qualified candidates for the role of Survey Technician.
This position is responsible for providing survey-related support to the field survey crew and for performing specialized and complex professional survey engineering work for the District's survey department.
Essential Functions & Duties:
- Coordinate the survey crew in the field layout of difficult construction projects, including replacing lost survey monuments, setting property corners on District land from legal descriptions and title information, and performing other aspects of survey work.
- Coordinate work assignments with the project schedule and ensure timely completion of projects.
- Maintain detailed and accurate records of crew activities and survey data.
- Review blueprints, legal deeds, and perform deed research as required for each project.
- Perform the reduction of field data and preparation of electronic base maps using established CAD standards.
- Create/ finish Auto CAD drawings, exhibits, legal descriptions, and related survey documents for project managers.
- Assemble drawings, exhibits, and related survey documents for the field crew.
- Ensure survey computations comply with applicable standards.
- Ensure surveying instruments and equipment such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment are properly maintained and in operational condition.
- Ensure work is performed according to instruction and conforms to sound survey engineering principles.
- Facilitate work with project coordinators/contractors in providing survey data for construction projects.
- Determine existing and proposed right-of-way; ensure markings and property corners are accurately set.
- Perform other duties that may be added or changed as the course and scope of the job directs.
https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx
If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or email ADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net .
This position is subject to a criminal history check. Only relevant convictions will be considered and, even when considered, may not automatically disqualify the candidate.
Requirements
Education and Experience:
- Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
- Four (4) years of experience in survey work or a similar field, including field survey engineering methods and techniques/ principles of civil engineering.
- Significant experience using complex optical/ electronic instruments and various instruments used in survey engineering, specifically Leica GPS and total stations.
- Significant experience in survey techniques used in making cross-section, profile, location, topographic, and construction layout surveys.
- Experience using AutoCAD, Civil 3D, GIS, Carlson SurvCE, Carlson Explorer Data Collector, Leica Total Station, and Leica 2300GPS.
- Experience reading and understanding construction plans, details, and specifications.
- Valid Class "C" Texas Driver’s License
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Can effectively communicate with coworkers, vendors, the public, industry, and/or governmental representatives.
- Ability to prepare accurate sketches of conditions found in the field.
- Excellent understanding of construction standards, practices, and techniques.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and/or assignments.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Good diagnostic and analytical skills.
Preferences
- Surveyor in Training (SIT) certification or the ability to obtain certification within one year of hire preferred.
- Geo-spatial management experience preferred.
Position Type:
- Regular Full Time
- 40 hours per week
- To be discussed at the interview
- 9900 Northwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77092, USA
The physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
- Frequent stooping, bending, reaching, lifting, and carrying of items up to 11 pounds and occasional lifting of up to 20 pounds.
- Frequent sorting, filing, shelving, and handling of documents, books, files, file drawers, and related materials and equipment required for clerical operations.
- Occasional walking up and down steep slopes of ditches or on rough and uneven surfaces or ground, such as sloping terrain, plowed or furrowed areas, or construction sites.
- Occasional ascending/descending stairs; prolonged sitting for extended periods of time.
- Work is typically performed indoors in a typical office environment with acceptable lighting, temperature, air conditioning, and noise levels.
- When at field locations, may be exposed to significant levels of heat, cold, moisture, air pollution, wind, and dust, wildlife, and flying/walking insects, vibration, and/or noise in excess of 85 decibels.
Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.