Land Technician

Job Title

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $38.32hr - $43.32hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 2+ years of Civil Engineering or Survey Technology training or equivalent education and/or experience in surveying of land and title work.
• Must have a valid California driver's license.
• The physical ability to do field survey work.

Responsibilities:

• Performing routine work as a member of a survey party; making precise survey measurements using conventional and state of the art surveying instruments; interpreting legal descriptions of real property; making and interpreting survey calculations; researching, analyzing, checking, and adjusting survey data; researching title and compiling evidence and documentation for boundary determination.
• Preparing maps from field notes, office data, and title searches for condemnation proceedings, obtaining rights-of-way, purchasing land, obtaining government permits, and obtaining leases and other land documents. Plotting plan profiles, road cross-sections, topography, contours, and special drawings.
• Assembling information for, and processing, clearing, and correcting rights-of-way and land matters. This work includes preparing legal descriptions of real property; preparing all routine documents necessary for the acquisition of easements; processing necessary forms for procuring permits; preparing and processing quitclaims; securing signatures; securing permits; inspecting property; preliminarily investigating encroachments; and preparing clear and concise reports and correspondence.
• Performing duties substantially identical to those of a Senior Land Technician, but normally on assignments requiring less experience, in order to qualify for promotion to Senior Land Technician.

Nice to Have:

• Land Surveyor In Training certificate – LSIT.
• Prior professional experience using AutoCAD Civil 3D for land surveying or civil engineering purposes.
• Strong oral and written communicator.