A. Crew Chiefs
• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance measuring equipment.
• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
• Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.
• Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties.
• Lay out grids, and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.
• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.
• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.
• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
• Aid in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
• Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
• Search for section corners, property corners, and survey points.
• Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
• Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
• Prepare topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, such as charts, drawings, and survey notes.
• Responsible for accurate bench and cross-section elevations.
B. Instrument Operators
• Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment.
• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys, using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
• Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.
• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.
• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.
• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.
• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
• Search for section corners, property corners, and survey points.
• Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation.
• Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.
• Load and unload necessary equipment for the day’s tasks.
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