Survey Technician G115 - Engineering at Columbus Consolidated Government, GA

About the Department

This position performs technical surveying duties.

• Operates survey equipment in the collection of field data.
• Sets up, programs, and operates total station survey equipment, robotic instruments, and global positioning satellite system.
• Uses plumb to attain accurate line of site; uses level rod to run elevations for roads, bridges, and poles.
• Downloads collected data into laptop and office computers.
• Researches maps and records.
• Flags traffic as necessary.
• Ensures proper care and maintenance of survey equipment and vehicle.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Position Duties

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of land surveying.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of records maintenance.
• Knowledge of applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations.
• Skill in problem solving and decision making.
• Skill in reading maps, blueprints, and other reference tables.
• Skill in the specialized tools and instruments used in drafting and surveying.
• Skill in oral and written communication.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of Georgia/Alabama for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.

Other Qualifications

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, bending, crouching, or stooping. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

The work is typically performed outdoors and occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, and irritating chemicals. The work requires the use of protective devices.