Professional Land Surveyor - Greeley

Position: Professional Land Surveyor I - Greeley
Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received and this announcement will be closed when the position is filled. It is in your best interest to apply early.

About CDOT

CDOT employees make a difference by providing freedom, connection, and experience to the traveling public, while also keeping them safe. The State of Colorado offers competitive medical, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending and health savings accounts. Visit the State of Colorado benefits for details, current premium rates and a summary video about benefits. The state also offers PERA retirement, great optional PERA plans such as 401K, a generous paid time off package of annual, sick, holiday and other leave, strong career growth, tuition reimbursement and professional development.

Perks include Colorado Employee Assistance Program (CSEAP) counseling, wellness, credit union membership and employee discount program. Visit CDOT Benefits for details. Some positions may qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

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The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for a period of up to 6 months.

About the Work Unit

This position is located in the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Region 4 (Northeast Colorado area) in Greeley. This unit supports the delivery of the Right-of-Way (ROW) program for the development and maintenance of the State Transportation System.

About the Position

This position is responsible for charge of Professional Land Survey work within the Region 4 Survey Unit. This position will perform and manage field and office land survey functions, coordinate all survey related work with a survey consultant on a project from the beginning to end.  Position is required to stamp a Professional Land Surveyor number on all documents pertaining to the work it's responsible for (GPS Control, ROW monumentation, etc.).
This position also provides leadership, guidance and training to other survey unit positions with the Region.

Your duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Perform and/or manage office and field land surveying services from project initiation (project scoping) and control survey through final Right-of-Way monumentation;

* Responsible for ensuring adequate data is obtained in the field so that property rights can be properly determined;

* Must establish both horizontal and vertical control, research various survey plats, field notes, and other documentation to aid in the collection of proper field data;

* Prepare, stamp and file plats, monument records, documents as required by State law and setting of final ROW monumentation;

* Perform field surveys to determine location of ROW and other land boundaries;

* Responsible for the restoration and preservation of survey monuments associated with any given project;

* Responsible for the planning and coordinating of Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys to be used for CDOT project control and land corner ties. Will then create a Project Control Diagram;

* Regularly acquire, through meetings with CDOT engineering and specialty unit personnel involved with the project, a good understanding of what is going to be required from the survey unit for the project;

* Decide what Land monuments must be used on a survey and, if they do not exist, then must decide, based on evidence and Law, where to reset the needed monuments;

* Decide where to establish a new section monument based on the existing ground evidence in the area; create a new monument record showing how they determined where to set the monument for the Board to save and file.

* Conduct early field visits to establish necessary survey control for anticipated project limits;

* Meet with consultant surveyors to coordinate the scoping (limits of the survey), calibration of equipment, and methods of surveying;

* Instruct and train consultant personnel on proper surveying processes, procedures and computer programs to ensure that the completed survey will meet CDOT specifications;

* Monitor Consultant in the creation of scopes of work and survey work hour estimates;

* Certify various survey records including but not limited to control survey diagrams, survey reports, land corner monumentation records and survey tabulation sheets (this certification requires that the various diagrams, reports and records be signed and sealed…