City Surveyor

Salt Lake City, UT • Salt Lake City, UT

362d • $72,232 - $98,630

About The Position

The City Surveyor oversees all survey activities for Salt Lake City, ensuring land surveys meet legal, regulatory, and accuracy standards. This role involves managing projects related to city properties, easements, and infrastructure, reviewing and certifying survey documents, and coordinating with city departments and other agencies to achieve short- and long-term goals. The City Surveyor also develops policies, integrates advanced technologies like GPS and GIS, manages the survey section's budget, and serves as an expert witness in legal disputes. This position requires strategic planning and staying current with evolving surveying techniques and practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in surveying from an accredited college or university.
• Eight years professional experience as surveyor in responsible charge of survey projects, survey records, and professional survey staff, including a minimum of four (4) years as a Survey Party Chief with expertise in GPS, GIS or other surveying technologies.
• Current valid Utah State Land Surveyor's License, or the ability to obtain such license within six months of hire.
• Possession of a valid driver's license or driving privilege card, or the ability to obtain such license within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Schedules and oversees projects classified by state laws as land surveys, including City properties, easements, new street right-of-ways, parks properties and monument line surveys.
• Performs final section review of plats, field notes and records prepared by City Surveyors that are similarly classified by state law as 'land surveys'. Checks measurement and descriptive data as needed. Signs, dates and stamps records and plats as required by the State for certification.
• Performs final section review and performs signatory approval of survey plats, descriptions and documents that are submitted by City divisions, department, and private developers for surveyor review and approval.
• Attends meetings to work with other City department managers to establish common short and long-range project goals. Coordinates such projects with engineering, participating city departments and other local government agencies.
• Hires, coaches, and counsels assigned surveying staff. Oversees, and manages the work of the survey project teams. Develops and implements office policies, operating procedures and survey practices.
• Ensures that professional development in the areas of GPS, GIS and other surveying technologies are achieved both individually and at the survey team level.
• Develops and submits for approval to the Deputy City Engineer, the Survey Section budget. Responsible for daily monitoring and appropriate expenditure of allocated funds.
• Acts as the City's expert witness in court concerning disputes arising from work performed.

Benefits

• Health Insurance (95% of premium paid by city)
• Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Paid vacation and personal leave
• Six weeks of paid parental leave from day 1 of employment
• Retirement contributions toward a pension plan and/or 401(k)
• A robust Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• Up to $4,000 tuition reimbursement annually
• Discounted supplemental benefits like pet insurance and legal services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees