Land Surveying and Mapping Manager

Overview

The Land Surveying and Mapping Unit Manager plans, directs, and oversees Valley Water’s land surveying, mapping, and right-of-way program in support of capital improvement projects, flood protection facilities, water utility infrastructure, real estate transactions, asset management, and regulatory compliance. This position manages both the Field Survey Team and the Right-of-Way Mapping Team and serves as the senior licensed Professional Land Surveyor responsible for survey governance, boundary determinations, legal descriptions, plats, Records of Survey, easement documents, construction survey support, geodetic control, subsidence monitoring, dam deformation monitoring, bathymetric and topographic mapping, and survey data management.

Eligible for a hybrid telework schedule, typically working 40% remote and 60% onsite. Employees must live within 150 miles of the primary work location. Telework eligibility depends on job type and operational needs.

• Direct and manage the Land Surveying and Mapping Unit, including supervision of Field Survey and Right-of-Way Mapping staff, establishing priorities, staffing plans, budgets, performance management, training and resource allocation.
• Provide licensed professional oversight and review of boundary determination, Record of Survey, legal descriptions, plats, easement exhibits, property acquisitions, construction survey deliverables and other surveying products requiring professional judgement and compliance with California surveying laws.
• Support planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance projects through survey control, topographic mapping, bathymetric surveys, deformation monitoring, asset mapping, utility investigations and geospatial data management.
• Manage consultant contracts, project schedules, budgets, quality assurance programs, standards development and survey technology initiatives including GPS/GNSS, LiDAR, UAV, 3D scanning, and GIS integration.
• Represent Valley Water before local agencies, utility partners, property owners, consultants, regulatory agencies and professional organization regarding surveying, mapping, right-of-way and land boundary matters.

Five (5) years of professional land surveying experience, including two (2) years of direct supervisory experience.

• Administer complex and technical land surveying and mapping services independently and cooperatively.
• Manipulate data, including computation using decimals or editing for transposed numbers.
• Translate paper concepts of shapes and dimensions from plats and engineering designs into the real world or into computer models (Auto-CADD Civil 3D).
• Evaluate and develop improvements to land surveying and mapping operations, procedures, policies, or methods.
• Conduct research, evaluate alternatives, make sound recommendations, and prepare effective staff reports.
• Establish and maintain a variety of land surveying and mapping program filing, record keeping, and tracking systems.
• Organize and prioritize a variety of land surveying and mapping services, projects, and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner.

• Standard professional surveying techniques, processes, and legal requirements.
• Basic principles, practices, concepts, and standards of engineering to provide appropriate survey information for design and construction.
• Organization and quality management practices for developing, analyzing, and evaluating programs, policies, and operational needs of land surveying and mapping services.
• Principles and practices for program and project budget development and administration, contract negotiation and management, and sound financial management policies and procedures.
• Practices of researching land surveying and mapping issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting effective staff reports.
• Computer software applications such as MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Auto-CADD Civil 3D, Geographic Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), and other specialized software and databases.

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in surveying, geomatics, mathematics, civil engineering, or a related field.

• California driver’s license (or ability to obtain). Disabilities accommodated with reasonable accommodation.
• Valid Professional Land Surveyor license issued by the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists.

Valley Water offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holidays, sick leave, medical, dental, vision, EAP, life and disability insurance. Participation in the California Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) is included.

Valley Water’s Equal Opportunity Non-Discrimination Policy is available for review upon request.