Chief Surveyor

Job Description

Under general direction, the Chief Surveyor will manage a section or division by planning, assigning, directing, and reviewing the work of a group of technical and professional staff engaged in land survey activities.  You will have technical and administrative responsibilities for defining objectives, conducting, implementing, and evaluating surveys in an assigned geographic or functional area, and making decisions regarding legal and record boundary determinations by State law, Federal instructions, and precedent established through the courts.

Important and Essential Duties:

Your duties as a Chief Surveyor may include, but are not limited to the following:

Manage a survey group by planning, assigning, monitoring, and evaluating staff work.

Review surveying or map requirements and resolve problems as needed.

Examine areas to be surveyed and assign the appropriate survey staff.

Check field survey or map work in progress and direct staff as necessary.

Perform surveying or map processing operations when necessary to assist staff in challenging situations.

Manage the budget (including revenues for map processing) for survey staff to ensure adequate staffing, supplies, and equipment.

Collect and review survey notes or map applications for completeness and accuracy.

Supervise preparing and maintaining official records, maps, and survey reports.

Coordinate with other city agencies on requests for service, time schedules, and cost estimates.

Assist the bureau leaders with revising programs, objectives, and goals.

Interact with the public, other departments, contractors, private surveyors, and outside organizations relative to municipal mapping and survey practices and procedures.

Prepare legislation to change official street legislation, approve subdivision maps, and make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors.

Represent the department at public hearings before the Board of Supervisors and various commissions.

Drive a city vehicle to work sites and meetings when necessary.

Working Conditions:

The nature of the work will require some physical effort and manual dexterity occasionally lifting and carrying over 50 pounds and working in adverse weather or working conditions such as working in streets or roads in heavy traffic, in cold and rain.

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