Professional Land Surveyor

HDL Engineering Consultants•Anchorage, AK

166d•Hybrid

About The Position

HDL Engineering Consultants, LLC (HDL) is a leader in providing surveying, engineering design, and construction administration services, with multiple offices in Alaska. We are looking for a motivated, detail-oriented person to fill a full-time Professional Land Surveyor position in our Anchorage office. The experience and expertise desired are at the Professional Land Surveyor level. Our survey group is led by Professional Land Surveyors and Certified Federal Surveyors with over 180 years of combined experience, who have provided surveying and mapping for a wide variety of projects within Alaska. This position is an excellent opportunity to work with some of the best surveyors in the state, and grow your experience with a progressive team.

Requirements

Alaska Professional Land Surveyor registration
Proficient in the use of total stations, GPS receivers, and data collectors, as well as in GPS reduction software such as Leica Geo Office
Working knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D
Valid Alaska Driver's License and a clean driving record
Able and willing to travel within Alaska

Nice To Haves

Municipal, State of Alaska, and Federal projects work experience
Roads, Highways, and Airports survey experience
Experience working in remote areas of Alaska
Well-rounded skill set and wide-ranging experience with a focus on Alaska projects, or projects similar to those typically found across Alaska.
Demonstrated experience with a variety of field note and drawing samples
Knowledge of principles of monumentation, staking, and marking
Airport Aeronautical Surveys, field and/or office
Right-of-way mapping and parcel plat drafting
Hydrographic surveying
FAA Drone Pilot License and collecting imagery and LiDAR

Responsibilities

Managing and executing survey projects from start to finish.
Researching existing property boundaries, prior surveys, and control data.
Performing precomputations and preparations; planning logistics for in-town and remote surveys.
Leading a field survey crew to recover and set new control, recover boundary evidence, and perform topographic surveys to support engineering design projects.
Performing data reductions and survey computations.
Preparing TIN surfaces.
Conducting final mapping in an AutoCAD Civil 3D environment.
Serve as field Professional Land Surveyor party chief of a one or two-person field survey crew in urban and remote areas of Alaska.
Work in the field and office on control, boundary, subdivision, topographic & design surveys, aerial mapping control, and aeronautical surveys; may also perform drone imagery & LiDAR data collection and hydrographic surveying.
Accurately run survey measuring instruments, including GPS equipment, total stations, and digital levels, all with electronic data collecting capabilities.
Understand and identify sources of measurement errors.
Perform mathematical calculations and check field data in the field.
Perform data reduction, field note reduction, calculations, data checks, and staking computations using survey programs and AutoCAD.
Perform quality control checks on each project, including computations, field book formats, and content.
Write survey reports describing horizontal and vertical control basis, the survey processes used for the project that meet the client's standards, and the quality control processes used to provide quality assurance.