Job Information
Colorado Department Of Transportation Professional Land Surveyor I (Field & Office) - Greeley in Greeley, Colorado
DEPARTMENT INFORMATION:
This position is only open to Colorado state residents.
This position is covered by the Partnership Agreement between the State of Colorado and Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (COWins).
New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.
ABOUT CDOT Do you want to make a difference in Coloradans' lives? Do you have a passion for helping people and keeping them safe? At the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), you'll have the opportunity to do just that. The work our people do contributes to keeping Coloradans and visitors safe and provides freedom, connection, and experience through travel. Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future! Also, check out our excellent benefits package!
CDOT FOR ALL CDOT's strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.
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The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for a period of up to 6 months.
DESCRIPTION OF JOB:
About the Work Unit This position is located in CDOT's Region 4 Survey Unit. This unit performs field surveys of existing conditions, which is then provided to engineering as the foundation of all engineering designs; assists in the preparation of right of way (ROW) plans for all projects requiring ROW acquisition; and also performs other professional land survey services, including ROW research, property management functions, setting and maintaining project control monuments, setting monuments marking the boundary of CDOT ROW, preparing legal exhibits for real property agreements, responding to requests from customers for ROW plans and survey information and maintaining the Region's vast ROW plans and survey control database.
About the Position This position is in responsible charge of Professional Land Survey work within the Region 4 Survey Unit in Greeley. This position performs and manages field and office land survey functions and may coordinate survey related work with a survey consultant. This position requires the applicant to use their Professional Land Surveyor stamp on all documents pertaining to the work they are responsible for, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) Control, right of way (ROW) monumentation, legal descriptions, monument records, etc. This position also provides leadership, guidance, and training to the survey technicians within this unit and other survey positions within the Region.
Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Perform and/or manage office and field land surveying services from project initiation (project scoping) and control survey through final ROW monumentation; Ensure that adequate data is obtained in the field so that property rights can be properly determined; establish both horizontal and vertical control; research various survey plats, field notes, and other documentation to aid in the collection of proper field data; Responsible for the restoration and preservation of survey monuments associated with any given project; Meet with consultant surveyors to coordinate the scoping (limits of the survey), calibration of equipment, and methods of surveying; Instruct and train consultants on proper surveying processes, procedures, and computer programs to ens re that the completed survey will meet CDOT specifications; Stay in close contact with consultants to know the status of tasks at any given time; report status to the Region Survey Coordinator on a regular basis; Plan and coordinate GPS surveys to be used for CDOT project control and land corner ties; create Project Control Diagrams; Certify various survey records including, but not limited to control survey diagrams, survey reports, land corner monumentation records, and survey tabulation sheets; sign and seal with the Professional Land Surveyor stamp and number prior to being filed with the appropriate repository; Other job duties as assigned.