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Summary
Responsible for Survey Crew field activities including plan and profile surveys, topographic surveys, boundary surveys, and construction staking. Respond to survey requests from various Xcel Energy departments and gather accurate data points on property lines, land contours and existing facilities. This position is the office to field liaison between Engineering, Design, and Survey.
Essential Responsibilities
- Accountable for the actual field surveying activities, including but not limited to performing the initial plan and profile survey, topographic survey, boundary survey and construction staking. Organizes and provides work direction to crewmembers to ensure projects are completed in a timely and efficient manner. Record all survey data via electronic data collectors in the field, which can be downloaded to computers in the office.
- Research land records and identify/resolve physical problems in the field expediently. Examples include property corners that do not fit the plat or legal description and boundary lines, which are different from the existing occupation.
- Download survey points from field data collectors to office computers. Analyze data to ensure integrity of feature codes and line strings. Assist office personnel in completing necessary final documents and/or drawings.
- Maintain contact with Transmission, Substation, Siting and Land Rights, Fuel/RDF, Electric and Gas Utilities, Facilities, Plants and Engineering, ERAD, Legal department, and others to provide customer support for all survey field activities.
- Maintain and operate department computers and specialized electronic survey equipment; monitor systems and eliminate any potential problems. Provide regular updates concerning project status.
- Communicate with private land survey companies, engineering firms, government agencies, and the general public.
- Maintain strong understanding of survey procedures along with staying current on new technologies & instrumentation. This includes field equipment such as GPS and Total Stations as well as computer hardware & software to provide field data to internal and external customers.
Required
- 2 years of education related to Land Surveying
- 4 years experience with lead responsibility for obtaining plan and profile surveys, topographic surveys, boundary surveys, and construction staking in the field
- Proven written and verbal communication skills
- Valid driver's license
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