Surveyor - Parkersburg

Synerfac is seeking a Surveyor for our client in Parkersburg, WV. Our client provides comprehensive Architecture, Engineering and Surveying services, focused on precise results, efficient practices and community minded solutions.

• Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
• Record survey measurements and descriptive data using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
• Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.
• Search for and recover section corners, property monuments, and survey points.
• Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.
• Direct and supervise work of subordinate members of surveying parties. * Lay out grids and determine horizontal and vertical controls.
• Compare survey computations with applicable standards to determine adequacy of data.
• Collect information needed to carry out new surveys using source maps, previous survey data, photographs, computer records, and other relevant information.
• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.
• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.
• Aid in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.
• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.
• Verify the accuracy of survey data including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
• Direct or conduct surveys 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.
• Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
• Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.