Land Boundary Surveyor Ii, Iii, Iv And V - Oahu; Wikiwiki

Recruitment Information

Recruitment Number 24-0076. This recruitment will fill vacancies in the Department of Transportation – Highways Division, Design Branch. Current vacancies are located in Ewa, Oahu.

Level II: $4,961 to $6,043 per month (SR-20, Step D to I).
Level III: $5,369 to $6,535 per month (SR-22, Step D to I).
Level IV: $6,043 to $7,351 per month (SR-24, Step D to I).
Level V: $6,535 to $7,952 per month (SR-26, Step D to I). Hiring rates are based on funds, applicant qualifications, and other relevant factors. The recruitment may close at any time. The last day to file applications will be posted on the State of Hawaii's Civil Service Job Opportunities Listing page.

The Land Boundary Surveyor series includes positions that supervise and primarily conduct triangulation and traverse surveys to locate and establish land boundaries and easements, prepare maps and metes and bounds descriptions of lands for airport, harbor, highway projects or other land of State government interest, conduct triangulation surveys to establish accurate horizontal controls and leveling surveys to establish vertical controls, and perform other survey related work for land owned, controlled or possessed by the State.

Positions require substantive knowledge of State land laws, Land Court procedures and decisions, and the land tenure history of the State of Hawaii, and the ability to supervise and deal effectively with others, research land boundary matters, and prepare related records, maps, and reports. The work also requires knowledge of surveying principles and techniques, mathematics through trigonometry, and use, care and adjustment of survey instruments and equipment.

• Level II: Performs limited professional land surveying work in field surveying and office computations and land boundary research; serves as chief of field survey party on noncontroversial boundary surveys; performs and supervises related office computations, plots field survey notes, prepares maps, simple metes and bounds descriptions and reports; serves as instrument man under supervision of a higher‑level surveyor on complex or Land Court surveys;
  
  performs other related duties as assigned.
• Level III: Performs and supervises moderately difficult land survey work; serves as chief of party for major and complex control, Land Court and boundary surveys; performs special studies and research on land boundary and ownership matters; writes metes and bounds descriptions; may serve as first assistant to the head of a major land survey unit with technical and supervisory responsibility; performs other related duties as assigned.
• Level IV: Performs technical and supervisory responsibility for a major survey project or function, or several minor projects; personally performs the most difficult and complex field and office survey work; performs other related duties as assigned.
• Level V: Serves as head of a major organizational segment (branch, section or large unit) of a statewide land survey program involving technical and administrative responsibility for more than one major survey project or function operating simultaneously; performs other related duties as assigned.

• Legal authorization to work as required by the State of Hawaii.
• Basic education:
  Graduation from an accredited four‑year college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Land, Surveying, Geo‑Science, or Engineering.
• Experience:
  
  Level II: One (1) year professional land boundary surveying experience.
  Level III: Two (2) years professional land boundary surveying experience, with at least one (1) year applying Hawaii land laws, Land Court rules, decisions and procedures, and Hawaii's land tenure history.

• License:
  Valid license to practice as a professional Land Surveyor in the State of Hawaii.
• Supervisory aptitude:
  Demonstrated aptitude or potential for supervisory duties through successful completion of regular or special assignments involving supervisory responsibilities, favorable appraisals indicating supervisory potential, or completion of supervisory training courses.