Senior Land Surveyor at PG&E, Bishop Ranch

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PG&E will be hiring a Senior Land Surveyor for our Bishop Ranch office. If you are interested, please visit our website at: http://careers.pge.com/

Please enter 53076117 into the Keywords dialog box. Also, please keep checking back until you see that the job has posted, as it will be posted on our website by the end of this week. Below is the posting:

Job Posting Title
Senior Land Surveyor - ESC, San Ramon, CA
Job Posting Date: 12/09/2015
Requisition #: 53076117-E01
Job Category: Real Estate / Facilities
Job Level: 2. Individual Contributor

Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the
largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco,
with 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation's cleanest energy to 15 million
people in Northern and Central California.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity
employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age,
religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital
status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic
information or any other factor that is not related to the job.

Department Overview
Land Management Bishop Ranch provides land rights determinations, ministerial permitting, land
surveying, and land acquisition services in support of gas transmission projects. These services
include rights-of-way drawings, easement documents, land acquisition, property owner
notifications, engineering support drawings (plan & profile), topographic mapping and construction
staking.

Position Summary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective
bargaining.
You will lead a team composed of field and office land surveying personnel, as well as contractors
to provide surveying, mapping, legal descriptions and drawings for the planning, construction and
maintenance of proposed and existing company facilities. You will work directly with engineers,
planners, construction personnel, project managers, and other business partners in assessing
project needs; develop and maintain work plans, schedules, and cost estimates in support of these
activities; and provide direction to the project surveyor, chief of party, land technicians, and other
field and office surveying personnel.

Qualifications

Minimum:
- Licensed as a California Land Surveyor
- 30 months experience as a Project Surveyor defined as one or more of the following:
A. Bachelor’s degree in land surveying and 2 years of work experience in land surveying
B. Six years’ experience in land surveying
C. Registration as a Civil Engineer with 2 years’ experience in Land Surveying

Desired:
- 10 years of experience in land surveying in field and/or office
- Bachelor’s degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Civil Engineering or related field

Responsibilities
- Support survey crews working in the field. Establish scope, responsibilities, and performance
standards for specific projects.
- Provide the research required for projects including existing mapping, related land
documentation, and liaison with clients.
- Coordinate the resources required to complete mapping and related land documents once the
fieldwork has been completed.
- Provide technical expertise and direction to Land Technicians working in office and field
environments in the performance of boundary, topographic, plan and profile, settlement and other
types of land surveying, mapping and data collection.
- Act as a liaison between various sections within Land Services and business partners to ensure
timely completion of projects.
- Provide technical guidance and ensure compliance with legal requirements and PG&E standards
for surveying, mapping and land-related documents.
- Establish ongoing dialog with business partners to ensure suitability and satisfaction with Land
Engineering products and services.
- Responsible for stamping all legal descriptions and maps per local and state regulations.
- Coordinate the preparation and approval of legal descriptions, maps and exhibits (pink package)
required for the condemnation process
- Establish exact alignment of new facilities with the assistance of Transmission Engineer or
Pipeline Engineer, Project Manager, Land Services Staff, environmental experts and construction
personnel.
- Prepare and testify as an expert witness on land-related issues