Position : Assistant Land Surveyor
Location : Los Angeles CA.
Work Location : In Office/on-site **
Contract:** Long Term

Duties:

• Assist the Land Survey Party Chief in conducting field surveys, including boundaries, topographic, and as-built surveys for various district projects.
• Set up, operate, and maintain survey instruments such as total stations, smart level, and data collectors.
• Accurately measure distances, angles, and elevations, and record survey data according to established District and industry standards.
• Maintain detailed and legible survey field notes, sketches, and photographic records to document survey conditions and findings.
• Upload and organize raw survey data for processing in CAD software.
• Mark and maintain survey control points, stakes, and monuments in the field to ensure consistent reference for design.
• Ensure proper care, calibration, storage, and inventory of survey equipment, tools, and safety gear.
• Provide rapid field support for urgent and emergency survey requests, such as facility damage assessments, safety hazard evaluations, or time-sensitive construction issues.
• Comply with all safety protocols and ensure safe working conditions at survey sites, including traffic control when required.
• Performs other related tasks required.

Minimum Required Experience:

• Three (3) years full-time paid professional experience in performing routine, non-technical work in a surveying party, including one (1) year on the job field training or experience
• Experience interpreting civil engineering drawings
• Experience in data collection by setting up and operating total stations, levels, GPS, and measuring lines, elevations and positions

Required Education:

• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering or surveying, with courses in field surveying on both plane and route surveying (with three [3] years of experience)

OR

• Two (2) years of civil engineering course work and four (4) years of experience as a member of a field survey party performing land surveying work in making precis readings, measurements and tests in the field, including one (1) year in of the on-the-job field training

Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to make precise measurements
• Ability to make accurate mathematical calculations and create primary or basic civil engineering sketches
• CAD Software
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Certification:

• A valid Land Surveyor-In-Training Certificate, issued by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors