Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operator

Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operator

Surveying / Subsurface Utility Engineering

Asheville, NC ID:

23264

Full-Time/Regular

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm of more than 2,400 professionals that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT, is currently ranked #50 on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position Summary: JMT is currently seeking Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operators for their New Bern, Sylva and Asheville, North Carolina Offices. The successful candidate for this position may operate surveying instruments, such as conventional and Robotic Total Stations, Static and RTK/VRS GPS, and conventional and electronic levels. Position may be responsible for taking field notes, making field sketches, and entering data into data collectors and computers. This position is not eligible for employer-based sponsorship with the exception of the TN visa classification.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Position and hold the prism rods, or targets, that Instrument operators use for measure angles, distances, and elevations

Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and Data Collectors.

Run levels and level rods for benchmarks and cross-section elevations

Search for property monuments, and other survey points

Set and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation

Operate surveying instruments such as prisms rods, Total Stations, and GPS equipment

Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans

Maintain equipment and load supplies in vehicles used by surveying crews

Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for line of sight, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

Perform other related duties as assigned