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The County Surveyor is responsible for providing professional decisions
for surveys and complex survey analysis. This position reviews and
approves the work of other surveyors, public and private, including
assisting, advising and guiding professional surveyors, survey
technicians, the Recorder, the Treasurer, attorneys, other County
departments, business professionals and the public. Work is performed
under general supervision of the Public Works Director and is reviewed
through results attained.
REPORTS TO
Work is performed under the direction of the Public Works Director. The
employee is expected to exercise initiative and judgment in planning and
organizing work, completing assignments, and handling routine and
unusual problems.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
Supervision is exercised directly, or through subordinate supervisors,
over a staff of technical personnel. Includes assigning, directing,
evaluating, and reviewing work of subordinate employees.
Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, and coordinating work
operations, providing on-the-job training, evaluating job performance,
recommending disciplinary actions, and recommending selection of new
staff members.
Essential Job Functions
- Develops systems for and oversees the review of Registered Land
Surveys, parcel plats, and right-of-way abandonment petitions and
process for compliance with state statutes, County policies, and
professional standards.
- Reviews parcel plats and maintains process for parcel plat
submission, review, and approval.
- Administers Public Works Department spatial data and GIS layers.
- Performs and directs professional surveying work to acquire property
and right-of-way for County projects and interests including eminent
domain action as appropriate in accordance with state statutes,
County policies, and professional standards.
- Collaborates with surveyors, attorneys, and developers on procedures
necessary to record surveys for public record; recommends solutions
to disputes.
- Provides review and professional opinion on easements, prescriptive
rights-of-way, and RS 2477 rights-of-way.
- Develops, implements, and monitors the County-wide survey to
perpetuate and maintain the United States Public Land Survey System
in accordance with state statutes and professional standards.
- Collaborates with other departments, agencies, and professionals to
facilitate the development of an accurate and economical geodetic
control network.
- Establishes and defines the subdivision of sections of land; applies
the principles of land surveying, evidence, and law to determine
land boundaries; prepares legal descriptions, right-of-way plats,
certificates of survey, professional reports and other survey
documents.
- Communicates and collaborates with other departments, government
agencies, private businesses, public utilities and the public on
projects such as: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping,
right-of-way platting, unmanned aircraft systems data collection and
mapping, aerial photography, subdivision plat review, geodetic
survey control, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS/GPS)
development and training, Computer Aided Drafting (AutoCAD)
development and training, forensic surveys and boundary surveys as
required to complete specific projects.
- Interprets and explains state statutes, professional standards,
rules, regulations and legislative changes affecting all phases of
land survey and geospatial information for department staff, other
departments, other agencies, business professionals and the public.
Coordinates survey and land information projects; trains staff in
specialized spects of work and acts as resource to others; acts as
team leader on projects; reviews and provides input on individual
and team performance.
- Coordinates parcel mapping, centerline datasets and the security and
integrity of the parcel map geodatabase to support the County\'s
geographic information system (GIS) and land records management
systems.
- Performs other related duties as directed.