Land Surveyor

This position is located in the Department of Buildings (DOB), within the Office of the Surveyor. The mission of the DOB is to protect the health, safety, economic interests, and quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors in the District of Columbia by issuing licenses and permits, conducting inspections, enforcing building, housing, and safety codes, regulating land use and development, and providing consumer education and advocacy services.

The Office of the Surveyor maintains the legal records of all land plats and subdivisions of private and District government property within the District of Columbia with the existing records covering a period of more than two centuries.

Responds to the complex requests for subdivision of plats submitted by the public, development community or surveying community of the District, determining if a request for a subdivision is allowable by law. Reviews drafting jobs and surveying computations provided to the Office for completeness and accuracy and uses it to establish or amend geometric parameters of real property and determine the area of land for property being subdivided and/or for building permits to meet legal requirements.

Assists and oversees lower-level Survey Analysts in their work and reviews work prior to being submitted to the DC Surveyor for signature. Assists and oversees lower-level Engineering Technicians in the preparation of more complicated building plats. Drafts draft building plats for building permits when necessary. Collects data, conducts research, computes and adjusts dimensions, square footage, angles, arcs, etc. and makes other changes including configurating roadways, areas and zoning with right of ways to existing land records using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and other techniques.

Assigns actual drawing to AUTOCAD Specialist and reviews work prior to submitting it to the Surveyor for signature. Ensures legislative plats such as street/alley closings, transfers of jurisdictions, highway plan eliminations, etc. are correctly platted and signed off by the Surveyor. Assembles, evaluates, and makes use of a variety of land record documents, including subdivision plats of record, deeds to real property, assessment and taxation information and identifies correct interrelationships among many documents, reviews several databases and determines the validity of the information available to accurately compute/identify outside boundaries of lots.

Reviews deeds of property and interprets dimensions to construct a new map or to revise an existing map. Works with private surveyors to resolve conflicting issues, unclear deed calls or field measurements.

Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the position and has equipped the individual with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, the incumbent must possessat least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression.

Degree: land surveying; or civil engineering with a surveying option/emphasis. The civil engineering major must have included at least 6 semester hours of surveying, 3 semester hours of land law, and 21 additional semester hours in any combination of the following: surveying, photogrammetry, geodetic surveying, geodesy, route surveying, remote sensing, cartography, survey astronomy, land information systems, computer-aided mapping, aerial photo interpretation, and survey analysis and adjustments.

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Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in land surveying or civil engineering as described in paragraph A,…