WYDOT – Hiring Professional Land Surveyor – Basin

• Prepares recommendations used to design construction projects with varying levels of complexity.
• Directs the development, coordination, and scheduling of land survey projects.
• Assures compliance with state and federal laws, rules, and regulations and with agency operating policy.
• Reviews and examines land survey work products.
• Produces detailed written reviews and reports.
• Reviews preliminary plan issuances and provides recommendations and changes.
• Collects and prepares survey data used in the design of highway plans.
• Researches and prepares land ownership maps.
• Locates sources and prepares agreements to surfacing material, borrow, and water for construction projects.
• Provides appropriate application of boundary control and legal principles.
• Coordinates with contract services.
• Provides technical analysis, support, and resolution involving right-of-way engineering, title examination, real property conflicts, state land securement, federal land appropriation, and research.
• Professionally certifies reports, plats, and plans.
• Answers technical questions posed by other programs.
• Resolves conflicts related to writing legal descriptions and entitlement.
• Prepares court presentations and serve as an expert witness.
• Prepares and records final documents.
• Researches and maintains historical survey information and legal documents.
• Explains agency policies, procedures, and practices to Board of Commissioners, individuals, or groups.
• Analyze, interpret, evaluate, and make professional decisions in order to make correct corner, boundary, and property ownership determinations.
• Reviews right-of-way plans. Establish a monument of right-of-way boundaries.
• Performs Contract Administration Duties.
• Surveys, tests, inspects, and ensures safety and documentation associated with construction projects.
• Conducts or arranges for crew training in areas including computer software, survey procedures, safety and construction procedures and practices.
• Checks documentation and quantities of work for contractor’s payment.
• Directs positive public relations with people directly concerned with construction projects, including contractors, suppliers, landowners, businesses and the traveling public.
• Partners with contractors at all phases of a project to ensure that construction projects are completed on time, on budget, at an acceptable quality level and in a safe manner.
• Ensures WYDOT standards are being met.
• Reviews proposed plans, reports and data for details, accuracy and completeness, and makes changes as required.
• Prepares horizontal and vertical alignment calculations from preliminary survey data.
• Annotates aerial photographs, takes measurements, field verifies utilizing survey equipment, and makes calculations from photographs.

Qualifications
KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of the concepts, theories, methods, practices and procedures of surveying, state and common law relating to property, boundaries and highways, and the legal principles of land surveying.
• Knowledge of the principles, theories, and practice of highway engineering as they pertain to land surveying.
• Knowledge of State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations.
• Knowledge of mathematics, especially the application of algebra, trigonometry, and statistics.
• Knowledge of research methods, techniques, and/or sources of information.
• Knowledge of effective practices, methods, techniques, and equipment of land surveying.
• Knowledge of methods of analysis for surveys associated with complex land surveying related problems.
• Knowledge of procedures for recording of maps, plats, records of survey, water rights, corner records, and other documents requiring certification by a Professional Land Surveyor.
• Knowledge of personnel and fiscal management.
• Ability to prepare recommendations used to design construction projects with varying levels of complexity.
• Knowledge of methods and techniques of surveying and engineering drawing calculations.
• Knowledge in the operation of Trimble Geodometer and GPS equipment.
• Ability to interpret plans, specifications, and project documents, and ensure contractors adhere to appropriate documentation throughout projects.
• Knowledge of Standard Plans and the application of them on a site-specific basis.
• Knowledge of Geopak and Microstation.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Necessary Special Requirements
NOTES:

• FLSA: Non-exempt
• Current WYDOT employees may be eligible for the Employee Moving Expense Plan for this position.
• The Department may, upon further review, authorize use of the Relocation Expense Plan for anyone selected to fill this position.
• E-Verify: WYDOT uses E-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.

Supplemental Information

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