How do they match: Surveyors

  • Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
  • Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
  • Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
  • Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
  • Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.

  • Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.