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Survey and Mapping Technician 2

Category: Classified
Pay Grade: C20
Job Code: 16760

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

JOB SUMMARY

Performs skilled technical work in land surveying or highly independent technical work of comparable responsibility; performs difficult technical assignments in land surveying, performs and checks survey computations, and inspects construction work.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS (examples, not all inclusive)

• Instructs team members in the use and care of survey instruments, equipment, and in surveying procedures appropriate to a particular assignment;
• Serves as a party chief of a land surveying crew, coordinates work, taking notes, making sketches, and contacting interested public parties;
• Participates in the review of public works plans for water systems, sewerage, street, or subdivision construction;
• Uses various mapping and information systems and applications;
• Checks contract drawings and computes quantity of waste, fill, and construction materials;
• Investigates new construction, makes field inspections of drainage problems, checks proposed street grades and drainage plans, and analyzes technical records, charts, and statistical information, and prepares detailed and specific recommendations;
• Prepares project time and cost estimates;
• Trains team members on equipment, processes, principles, practices, and techniques;
• May prepare and calculate right of way maps, research, and write legal descriptions, calculate data from field notes, research deeds, and assist public with survey information;
• May perform information processing related duties including using available statistical packages or programs, encoding data, data entry and retrieval, routine information terminal operations, and programming/reprogramming;
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

High School diploma or an acceptable equivalency diploma (GED); and two (2) years of experience in land survey work; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Special Qualifications (May be required depending on area of assignment):

• Florida Driver’s License or Florida Commercial Driver’s License and endorsement, if any.
• Assignment to work a variety of work schedules including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations.
• Candidate to demonstrate more advanced proficiency, competency and satisfactory completion of regularly assigned work in an independent manner.
• Appointing Authority retains discretion to employ an incumbent at this level or advance the incumbent non-competitively or competitively, after a candidate meets the minimum qualifications to an in-line career ladder within the same organization or department.
• Other knowledge, skills, abilities, and credentials required for a specific position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the principles, techniques, and practices of land surveying;
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and instruments used in drafting;
• Knowledge of construction specifications, plans, and regulations relating to construction and higher-level mathematical applications to survey computations;
• Skill in the use of land survey instruments and equipment;
• Ability to direct and coordinate survey party activities and train crew members in all aspects of survey work;
• Ability to perform difficult technical computations, make estimates, compile survey data and statistics, and make difficult technical drawings;
• Ability to swim and use hand and power tools;
• Ability to operate motorized equipment and possession of sufficient physical stamina to work long hours outdoors under various field conditions and exposure to traffic, extreme heat, and rainfall;
• Ability to use small office equipment, computers, and highly technical computer applications;
• Ability to use or repair small and medium equipment and machinery;
• Ability to oversee capital improvement plans, major construction projects, and new technology systems. 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS

The work requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.  Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Visual ability: Sufficient to effectively operate office equipment including copier, computer, etc.; and to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, etc.
• Hearing ability: Sufficient to hold a conversation with other individuals both in person and over a telephone; and to hear recording on transcription device.
• Speaking ability: Sufficient to communicate effectively with other individuals in person and over a telephone.
• Mental acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Repetitive motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity to change and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs.