Job Description

Clay County - Small Towns. Big Passions.

Pay:

$30.69 - $35.90

Performs all functions of a land surveyor for County design, maintenance, acquisition, and development service projects.

Survey and Mapping provides land survey and mapping services to support the design, right-of-way acquisition, land management, construction, and maintenance of County facilities. Supports right-of-way acquisition for transportation and storm-water related projects, including land descriptions and exhibits. Prepares and maintains drawings to aid in the design and maintenance of County facilities. Provides management direction, and control for these services, many of which are carried out through contracting. Provides management support over field survey crews.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides boundary and topographical surveys for the design, maintenance, and acquisition of County facilities including all AutoCAD associated with this task.
• Provides and records maps of County prescriptive roadways.
• Re-establishment of land survey corners on an as needed basis.
• Manages County Survey Crew by making and reviewing work assignments, establishing priorities and coordinating activities.
• Provide necessary technical training and continuing education to the County Survey Crew to ensure compliance with existing standards for land surveys, corner registration and geodetic surveys.
• Assists in the review and approval of plats submitted to the County for acceptance.
• Researches properties for easements.
• Provides information to the public in response to inquiries and complaints.
• Drafts easement languages for drainage or access easements to be recorded.
• Assists the GIS Department with tasks related to surveying.
• Maintains records and researches, compiles, and prepares reports as appropriate.
• In case of emergency or crisis situation (hurricane, flood, etc.) position is required to respond/perform emergency and recovery duties as assigned by the County Manager or designee.
• During an emergency or crisis situation, this position will may be required to be present at the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) to provide assistance while activated.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

• Valid Florida driver’s license with clean driving record
• Must be licensed in the State of Florida as a Registered Professional Land Surveyor.
• Possession of a bachelor’s degree with a major in surveying, civil engineering, forestry, physical sciences or related subject as well as six to eight years of professional experience.
• Must have complete working knowledge of a Total Station, experienced in performing all mapping needs in AutoCAD, Civil 3D.
• A High School Diploma or GED equivalent is required.
• Any combination of education and experience may be substituted, so long as it provides the desired skills, knowledge and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job

Supplemental Information

Regular attendance is an essential function of this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative, of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Knowledge of principles, practices, methods, and techniques of land surveying.

Knowledge of State of Florida Laws for Minimum Technical Standards for procedures in surveying.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as Civil Engineering Plans, Reports, Calculations.

Knowledge of computer drafting design systems and land survey software.

Knowledge of geography of Clay County.

Knowledge of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.

Knowledge of legal descriptions, official public records, terminology and laws relating to public property.

Knowledge of supervisory practices and techniques.

Ability to supervise the work of field survey operations and survey parties.

Ability to plan and estimate the cost of surveys for major construction projects.

Ability to maintain field notes.

Ability to prepare legal descriptions, maps of surveys, and record plats.

Ability to read, comprehend and apply written and verbal instructions.

Ability to communicate effectively.

Knowledge in Microsoft Office, Excel, and Power Point.

Employees may be required to perform duties, including the employee’s normal work function or other emergency support functions as deemed necessary by the County, as assigned before, during and after hazardous weather or state of local emergency.

While requirements may be representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed. Employees occupying the position will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

Working Environment and Physical Demands

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 25% of the time.

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

Kneeling: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Crouching: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Sitting: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position, or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.

Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palms.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which, they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 db loss @ 55 HZ, 1,000 HZ and 2,000 HZ with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Visual requirement equal to that for clerical administrative whose work deals largely with preparing and analyzing data and figures, accounting, transcription, computer terminal, extensive reading, etc.

The worker is subject to inside and outside environmental conditions. Tasks may risk exposure to extreme temperatures, humidity, etc.

Must be able to operate a county vehicle and to ascend and descend from the vehicle.

This position will require the applicant to perform field surveys that involve sitting or standing for prolonged periods of time, and clearing of debris for line of sight.

Must be able to move about within an office environment to access personnel and equipment and in outdoor environments to conduct surveys, including over uneven natural surfaces.

Regularly works around moving parts, near moving traffic or over roadways with moving traffic when on assignment. Position operates in both indoor and outdoor environments which may expose the worker to dust, inclement weather, extreme temperatures and excessive humidity, pollution, fumes and airborne particles.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Clay County is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, or age.

Clay County is committed to providing veterans with preference in employment opportunities in accordance with Florida State Law and Federal Regulations. As part of our dedication to supporting veterans, we ensure that qualified veterans are given preferential treatment in our hiring process, in accordance with Florida Statute 295.07

Eligible Veterans who believe they were discriminated against may file a complaint with the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairswithin 60 days of receiving notice of non-selection.