LAND SURVEYOR
Land Surveyor is non-competitive, meaning the state checks your education and experience against the spec instead of ranking you on a test.
Eligibility comes down to a professional license.
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Land Surveyor is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, surveys land and computes land boundaries, areas, and elevation; does other related duties as required.
Examples of work
- Surveys land and computes land boundaries, areas, and elevations.
- Researches titles, mortgages, and leases.
- Plots metes and bounds from deed descriptions.
- Locates road center lines and determines right-of-way.
- Prepares legal description of properties to be purchased by jurisdictions.
- Reviews site plans for road alignments and property bounds.
- Coordinates road alignments with state coordinate system.
- Checks filed plans and other surveys for overlap and gore in determining final road alignments.
- Measures distances between monuments.
- Sets monuments.
- Revises legal description of property.
- Does related drafting and tracing work.
- Plans, organizes, and assigns work of the organizational unit and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of subordinates.
- Prepares reports.
- Keeps records.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
License
Appointees will be required to possess a Land Surveyor's License issued by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of problems in and procedures used in land surveying.
- Knowledge of problems involved in making mathematical calculations.
- Knowledge of the use of the transit, plane table, and level.
- Ability to organize assigned work and develop effective work methods.
- Ability to give assignments and instructions to engineering aides.
- Ability to prepare reports and to keep records.
- Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.