The Journey Level Engineer I- Land Survey will assist a Licensed Professional Engineer or higher in Construction by performing a wide variety of land surveying assignments. Duties primarily include maintaining and updating records and maps in reference to legal descriptions of land conveyances, writing legal descriptions, assisting DPS personnel with interpreting difficult land descriptions, and performing related work as required. Additional duties may include researching records at the Register of Deeds and other locations, making engineering drawings or survey plats, processing and analyzing survey data, calculating construction layouts for a variety of projects, minor design and quantity checks, supervision of survey crews performing engineering, topographic, construction staking, and boundary surveys, making field calculations, operating and maintaining survey equipment.
Required Tasks
Prepare and write legal descriptions
Maintain and update records and maps in reference to legal description of conveyances
Assisting DPS staff with interpreting difficult land descriptions
Making engineering drawings or survey plats
Research deeds and records
Processing and analyzing survey data
Calculating layouts, minor design and quantity checks for a variety of projects and making field calculations
Supervision of survey crews performing engineering and topographic surveys
Operating & maintaining survey equipment
Travel to various locations may be required.
Perform other duties as assigned
Educational and Experience Requirements
A Bachelor of Science Degree in Surveying, Geodesy, or a similar Engineering degree from an accredited college or university, and
Be a Surveyor In Training (having passed the NCEES Fundamentals of Surveying Exam), or a Licensed Professional Surveyor in the State of Michigan; AND
Have a valid Driver's License and an acceptable safe driving record.
