What are the responsibilities and job description for the Land Surveyor position at APTIM?
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.
- Work that is worthy of your time and talent
- Respect and flexibility to live a full life at work and at home
- Dogged determination to deliver for our clients and communities
- A voice in making our company better
- Investment into your personal and professional development
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
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- 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.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Land Surveyor: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person