Survey Technician

Job TitleHigh signal to noise ratio, make the content beautiful.Job DescriptionHelp At the full performance level (GS-10) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following:Performs a wide range of land, construction, and hydrographic surveying tasks using Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment, total stations, scanners, echo sounders, and other precision tools to collect accurate data that supports engineering and project planning needs.Establishes and maintains survey control networks, including benchmarks, alignments, grades, and reference points, ensuring the accuracy required for construction activities, structural placement, and river or water-management operations.Reviews and verifies survey-related information in construction documents, including contractor computations, proposed realignments, layout plans, and vertical and horizontal control data, to ensure accuracy and compliance with project standards.Conducts field surveys throughout construction, including restoring disturbed control points, checking placement of forms for concrete, verifying structural alignment, and completing final "as-built" surveys to confirm that completed work meets specification requirements.Coordinates survey activities with engineers, contractors, and other project staff, identifies data gaps or issues, communicates needed corrections, and supports decisions related to project progress, technical needs, and job estimates.Maintains organized survey records and technical documents, including field notes, digital data files, computations, and daily activity reports that document work performed, site conditions, safety concerns, and any issues affecting accuracy or project timelines.Provides training and coaching to personnel on survey instruments, data collection techniques, computation methods, and safety practices; promotes consistent data quality and ensures safe work habits in field environments.Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. Physical Demands/Work Environment: The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion while in the field, in varied terrain, which involves climbing, walking, bending, crawling, or stooping. Incumbent conducts lengthy field surveys in desert terrain during peak periods of summer heat. The work will involve the occasional operation of all-terrain vehicles, boats up to 150 hp, light-duty trucks. May be required to clear line with axes, brush hooks, and chain saws in extreme heat or cold; lifting up to 60 lbs. is required. The work is performed in the field (50%) and in the office (50%). Work is performed outside under regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks and discomforts, adverse weather conditions with exposure to fluctuating temperature, insects, snakes, underbrush, etc. For field work exposure to a variety of temperatures ranging from 35 degrees F in the winter months, to highs in excess of 100 degrees F in the summer months. In remote locations with no cell reception; work environment requires the employee to stay alert continually, recognize and correct workplace hazards, and to take special safety precautions including wearing hard hats, safety glasses, ear plugs, or other personal protective equipment are required in some cases. Construction surveys are conducted in an area of high noise level, vibration, dust, and moving machinery. Hard hat, steel toe boots, and safety glasses are required on construction site. Office work is performed in a well-lighted, ventilated and temperature-controlled area.