How do they match: Surveyors

  • Land Examiner
  • Land Measurer
  • Land Survey Crew Chief
  • Land Survey Party Chief
  • Land Surveyor
  • Land Surveyor Manager
  • Land Surveyor Party Chief
  • Licensed Land Surveyor
  • Professional Land Surveyor
  • Registered Land Surveyor
  • Registered Professional Land Surveyor
  • Staff Land Surveyor

  • Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

  • Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
  • Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
  • Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
  • Determine specifications for equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
  • Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
  • Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
  • Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
  • Testify as an expert witness in court cases on land survey issues, such as property boundaries.
  • Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.

  • Survey land or bodies of water to measure or determine features.