An employee in this class examines existing records, makes land surveys and establishes or re-establishes permanent boundary marks at the site. Work further includes all survey calculations and the preparation of new or the correction of existing land record plans. Assignments are usually received from a superior in the form of survey orders though occasionally oral instructions are received following a discussion of the particular assignment. Employee is expected to organise his party, check vault information and conduct the field survey work. Another member of the party usually checks the field calculations and a draughtsman checks the survey notes. A superior reviews the work for conformity to the standard survey practices and accomplishment to the survey orders.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities
• Executes cadastral, topographical and trigonometrical surveys, using standard survey instruments. • Examines and verifies through computations and/or field surveys the information contained in the survey records of the Division. • Receives survey orders for specific surveys required, checks file information available in divisional vault; organises survey crew and supervises the precise measurement of angles and distances; demarcates boundaries and establishes reference points, closes traverses, computes and areas and notes natural or artificial features. • Checks the computations of other surveyors to ensure accuracy. • Lectures on and demonstrates to student surveyors actual survey problems with special emphasis on the use of standard field and office instruments in chain surveying and leveling, map recording, draughtsman ship and applied mathematics. • Establishes vertical and horizontal controls of aerial surveys; runs control traverses for cadastral surveys, plans permanent co-ordinated reference marks for topographical surveys and clears sites in preparation for new triangulation of Trinidad. • Performs related work as required.
Minimum Qualifications
and Experience
Experience and training in land surveying as evidenced by a Certificate as a Licensed Land Surveyor; or any equivalent combination of experience and training.
Required Competencies,
Skills and Abilities
• Some knowledge of the geography of Trinidad and Tobago. • Knowledge of the basic principles and practices of land surveying. • Knowledge of pure and applied mathematics. • Skills in the use and care of the standard instruments employed in taking precise measurements and levels. • Ability to lay out and direct the work of a small survey party. • Ability to interpret survey orders, to make use of file data and to execute land surveys and establish accurate bounds and. records
