Senior Surveyor

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Surveyor - Operations Manager to join our team at Seminole County, FL. As a key member of our survey operations team, you will be responsible for overseeing the activities of the Survey Section, reviewing consultant work, and ensuring compliance with technical standards and regulations.

• Supervise the work of technical personnel engaged in preparing data for County projects, including maps, survey notes, legal descriptions, and information for condemnation action.
• Review consultants' sketches of description, boundary surveys, etc., for compliance with minimum technical standards and applicable Florida State Statutes, and Seminole County Ordinances.
• Act as survey liaison and technical survey coordinator between Seminole County and its survey consultants.
• Initiate and recommend hiring, termination, performance evaluation, disciplinary and commendatory actions of selected staff, as assigned.
• Review all legal surveys and monitor all survey work to assure compliance with established procedures.
• Certify and sign plats of legal surveys.
• Review consultant designed major roadway design projects, right-of-way maps, and survey field notes for composition, accuracy, completeness, and compliance with Seminole County acquisition requirements.
• Review field notes and findings received from the field.
• Prepare preliminary estimates for engineering survey projects.
• Provide quality assurance review and technical office support as necessary for Seminole County survey operations.
• Prepare, sign, and seal surveys as necessary for Seminole County right-of-way acquisition.
• Compute, reduce, and evaluate survey data from survey crews for accuracy and technical procedure.
• Maintain database of all survey related drawings and field notes as required by law.
• Research State and County records, prior survey's, Government Land Office Records, and LABINS.
• Utilize local knowledge of existing conditions of job data for field use by field survey crews.
• Maintain County wide Vertical and Horizontal Control Networks.
• Prepare Plats of Survey, Maps, Sketches of Description and Design Surveys utilizing Computer Aided Drafting Programs.
• Process digital data collected field notes into Auto-Cad Land Development Desktop Software.

• Completion of Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 2 year's supervisory experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• A State of Florida Professional Land Surveying License is required and must be maintained.
• Considerable knowledge of the principles, techniques, and practices of surveying and contract administration.
• Ability to oversee the work of a team engaged in providing specific services, completing specific projects, or assisting other units.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment that requires the incumbent to be sensitive to change and responsive to changing goals, priorities, and needs.
• Ability to perform professional-level work dealing with data, people, and technology that relates to administrative, technical, scientific, engineering, accounting, legal, or managerial skills.
• Knowledge of mathematics through trigonometry and its application to field surveying and engineering computations.
• Ability to operate small office equipment, including copy machines or multi-line telephone systems, computers for data entry, word processing, and/or accounting purposes.
• Knowledge needed to operate more complex and technical computer applications, such as GIS or CAD.
• Ability to use or repair small/light equipment, such as power tools, as well as medium equipment and machinery, such as vehicles or commercial mowers.
• Ability to see (perceive color, depth, and texture), smell, hear (preferably at above average levels), and speak.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Florida Drivers License.