Survey Technician II

Qualus•Walnut Creek, CA

About The Position

The Survey Technician II works with a team of engineers during preliminary and final engineering stages. The role drafts survey and topographic maps, plats, and legal descriptions, and helps resolve CAD technical and drawing-production issues. It performs complex office and boundary-related calculations, deed interpretations, and detailed mapping independently or with minimal guidance. The position also supports field crews and produces deliverables for boundary, topographic, ALTA, private development, and municipal projects.

Requirements

Four years of relevant surveying experience as a technician or equivalent, combined with a bachelor's degree in surveying or a related field, or an associate's degree in land surveying, civil engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex legal descriptions, easements, and boundary evidence from title reports and historical records.
Prepare metes-and-bounds descriptions, Records of Surveys, parcel maps, and detailed topographic and construction drawings.
Manage data exchange workflows between field survey crews and office production.
Use CAD and GIS software for data modeling.
Develop deliverables for boundary surveys, topographic surveys, ALTA surveys, private development projects, and municipal projects from field notes, sketches, maps, legal descriptions, and other materials, with minimal supervision.
Evaluate survey data for accuracy and sufficiency and ensure compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
Share lessons and skills learned with less-experienced staff.
Perform staking calculations and support field crews.
Perform advisory drafting for projects, including enlarging or reducing drawings to fit a specified scale.
Research data at local, state, and federal agencies to identify legal boundaries and property lines.
Create accurate 3D surfaces, point files, linework files, sketches, and cut sheets for survey crews.