This employee is responsible for applying para-professional engineering skill and knowledge in supervising staff in conducting land, topographic, and hydrographic surveys.
Assignments are to survey projects by a land surveyor, engineer, or hydrologist.
The Survey Crew Supervisor has the freedom to decide procedures and methods to collect survey data. Written reports and field notes indicating procedures used, significant problems encountered, decisions made, and actions taken are prepared daily and at the completion of each survey. There may also be verbal communications with the supervisor regarding work in progress. Supervises the establishment by staff on a field survey crew of boundaries of state property and sets monuments at all government corners used to determine state boundaries. Supervises recording and reporting of any information that might affect state construction projects such as soil conditions, encroachments by adjacent landowners, or low areas that could be flooded by proposed impoundment areas.