Survey Assistant II – Street Use and Mapping – Public Works

3 weeks ago


San Francisco California, United States City and County of San Francisco Full time
Job Description

Under general direction, as Survey Assistant II you will perform journey-level surveying work in the office or the field. You may be asked to provide supervision over the activities of survey staff in the absence of the Survey Associate.

Important and Essential Duties:

As a Survey Assistant II, your duties may include but are not limited to the following:

Operate surveying instruments by indexing, sighting, calibrating, and reading levels, total station, GPS, and other equipment when conducting cross-sectioning, monumenting, topographic, engineering, boundary, lease, construction, and hydrographic surveys.

Perform surveying operations by checking profiles for proper grades, assist in locating property lines and other topographical features (sewers, manholes, catch basins, etc.), reference permanent markers, and take readings/measurements as needed.

Use mathematical computations to determine distances, elevations, volumes, angles, areas, traverses, etc., and interpret results.

Prepare and maintain survey field notes and official records by recording all necessary data on measurements, readings, problems encountered, recommendations, and other matters to include maintaining records for horizontal and vertical monument control.

Read and interpret land-use documents such as, but not limited to, legal descriptions, deeds, title reports, leases, and licenses.

May act as Survey Associate in the Associate's absence by supervising and directing survey staff. 

Conduct and explain existing survey procedures and methods to survey staff and to the public.

Assist in research requests for survey-related data from the public, clients, or staff. 

Prepare volumetric calculations for both land removal and water dredging.

Locate sub-surface utilities within the tolerances allowed by regulatory agencies by interpreting acquired data using sub-surface utility locating equipment including radio detection equipment, ground penetrating radar equipment, and electromagnetic equipment.

Drive a departmental vehicle to work sites to perform survey work.

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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