Surveyor

Job Overview:

Under supervision of Construction Manager, employees will perform a variety of rigorous physical tasks outdoors in all types of weather in support of cleanup of contaminated soils near Neihart, Montana.

Work may include: Constructing haul roads & installing bridges; expanding and capping on-site repository; excavating and hauling contaminated materials from stream channels and/or residential, commercial or private properties and backfilling/restoring properties to existing state.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules, including wearing required personal safety equipment
• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
• Direct or conduct surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
• Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles in order to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
• Analyzing data using plans, maps, charts, and software such as AutoCAD and GIS programs.
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering personnel and others concerned with projects.
• Adjust surveying instruments in order to maintain their accuracy.
• Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).

Basic Qualifications:

• MUST LIVE WITHIN DAILY COMMUTE OF NEIHART, MT.
• Must be a professional land surveyor licensed in the state of Montana
• Minimum 5 years experience with previous construction and/or environmental project work preferred.
• Requires physical strength, stamina, flexibility, and dexterity
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
• Ability to pass pre-employment physical and drug screen
• Preferred applicant will have current OSHA HAZWOPER training, not required, will train.
• A resume is preferred but not required when applying.
• Dependable transportation and cell phone service

Work Schedule:

• Work to be performed between March and November, weather dependent
• Current schedule:
  • Mon-Fri, 8-1/2 hrs/day
  • 15 min morning/afternoon breaks
  • 30 min meal break
• Possible schedule change at client direction to work Mon-Sat, 8-1/2 hrs/day.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Strength: Standing 50% Walking 20% Sitting 30% Lifting 35 lb. Carrying 35 lb. Pushing 0 ft-lb. Pulling 0 ft-lb. 2. Climbing O Balancing O 3. Stooping O Kneeling O Crouching O Crawling O Reaching Handling C Fingering C

Explanation for Symbols: NP=Not Present, O=Occasionally (0-33%), F= Frequently (34-66%), C=Constantly (67-100%)