Surveying Technicians

what you’ll do

• Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
• Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.
• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
• Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.