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Job Title: Survey Technician I
Closing Date/Time: Mon. 04/08/13 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Salary: $5,125.00 - $6,230.00 Monthly
$61,500.00 - $74,760.00 Annually

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Oakland, California

Under close supervision, a Survey Technician I works as a member of a two- or three-person survey crew performing rodman and other duties on a survey party, including:
• Assisting in locating, uncovering and setting control points by following directions from the Chief of Party.
• Marking points by using spray paint or magic marker.
• Manually setting up tripods or other survey targets over a point to provide a back sight for the Survey Technician II.
• Using a rod level to plumb a rod.
• Clearing line by cutting brush, branches and/or vegetation with the appropriate tools such as a machete, brush hook or hand axe.
• Walking through rough terrain and carrying equipment such as tripods, bags of wood and sledge hammers.
• Entering confined spaces.
• Using cloth or steel tape to measure distance.
• Manually operating metal detectors to locate metal objects.
• Maintaining survey equipment and hand tools.
• Checking field notes in order to verify level runs.
• Maintaining daily activity and job logs.
• Ordering and maintaining supplies and survey books.
• Checking surveillance forms of completed jobs.
• Filing completed jobs and field books by category and type.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Survey Technician I is the entry-level class in the surveying series. Individuals work as a member of a survey crew under the leadership of the Chief of Party. They perform survey work in primarily field settings. They are expected to learn to configure and operate a variety of survey instruments, as well as make and check calculations.

Requirements:
The position requires completion of the twelfth grade or its equivalent, including or supplemented by a course in trigonometry.

Other requirements: Must possess a valid California driver's license and have a satisfactory driving record. Must be willing to work outdoors under a variety of geographic and climatic conditions, and around various outdoor hazards such as poison oak. Must possess the physical characteristics to perform the critical and important duties of the position including strength and stamina to lift and carry survey equipment for distances up to a mile over steep and rugged terrain. May be required on a scheduled basis to be clean shaven as required to wear respiratory protection equipment. Must be willing to work overtime or out-of-town as needed.

Knowledge of:
• Mathematics up to and including trigonometry
• Traffic and construction safety principles and practices at the job site
Physically able to:
• Climb structures such as ladders, trees, and barbed wire fences to get to the work site or clear the work site
• Handle and physically transport survey equipment such as prisms and tribrachs
• Read measuring tapes, and find the punch mark on a monument
• Perform physical labor such as mixing concrete, digging holes, setting points, etc.
• Work outside in a variety of weather conditions, where temperatures can range from freezing to over 100 degrees
• Walk extensively over rough terrain

Ability to:
• Operate hand tools
• Effectively interact with people in strained or hostile circumstances
• Follow oral instructions
• Read maps
• Perform arithmetic calculations by using a calculator
• Work outdoors with possible exposure to rattlesnakes, ticks and poison oak
• Learn to use a computer to utilize a computer tracking system
• Learn to use filing systems related to surveying
• Learn East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) policies and procedures
• Drive an EBMUD vehicle in a safe and courteous manner
• Learn to read and interpret maps, drawings, and charts
• Learn basic surveying principles to assist in the scope of survey work
• Read calibrated graduations in order to read survey rods and other measuring devices

The Selection Process:
1. Submit a completed EBMUD application and the required supplemental question responses online at http://www.ebmud.com by 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, 2013. Application materials faxed, mailed or delivered to EBMUD will not be accepted.

2. Candidates meeting the minimum requirements will be invited to the written test, which is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 27, 2013. Please note that the study guide will be available online only from 8:00 a.m. Monday, April 1 through 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 8, 2013. Lost or misplaced study guides will not be replaced. Applicants are responsible for printing the study guide and viewing the maps during the recruitment period. The guide will not be available after 4:30 p.m. on Monday,
April 8.

3. Those passing the written test will be invited to the next step in the selection process that will include a panel interview and a written work sample project. This step is tentatively scheduled for mid to late May 2013.

4. Successful candidates will be ranked on a hiring list for further consideration to fill the current regular vacancy, as well as others occurring over the next 12 to 24 months.

Supplemental Information:
Please note that your employment history and responses to the supplemental questions will be reviewed and verified during this selection process, and you may be disqualified if you are found to not meet the requirements of the job and/or if you submitted false information.

Survey Technician I study guide on the EBMUD web site at:
http://www.ebmud.com/sites/default/file ... de2013.pdf

$30/hr for a HS grad with a trig course - no wonder the cities are broke and we are being taxed into starvation.

EBMUD provides excellent benefits and is committed to hiring and keeping only the best candidates. Please do not apply unless you are serious about competing for what is a great opportunity with a quality employer.

Thank you for posting the job opp!
I will apply for this.

land butcher wrote:$30/hr for a HS grad with a trig course - no wonder the cities are broke and we are being taxed into starvation.

I made that with 3 years of experience in the private sector. Maybe we should all just expect to be paid as construction laborers? No thanks.

Sounds like you guys think min wage should be $25/hr.
This is a entry level position - no way is anyone meeting those qualifications worth three times the min wage.

Anyone care to publish the diversity of their survey dept?

If an entry level survey position started at minimum wage I would have chosen a different profession. I'm willing to bet the person who fills this position will have more than a H.S. diploma and a course in Trig form the local J.C.

Moving on, congrats to whomever gets the job.

The point is that someone with ONLY those qualifications could be hired at that wage and bennie package. I started at $400/month ~$2.30/hr when min wage was $1.68. (Union base was ~$3/hr. )

http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FS_DATA/STAT-ABS/documents/D23.pdf

Way to hijack a thread (again), lb....

LB the farmers in the central valley need some sweat labor why don't you go look for a job.

So how many of you Land Survey business owners pay your HS grad with a trig course and zero survey experience $30/hr to start?
Show me the ads for private sector beginning surveyors.

I'm betting no one answers exc the govt employees that have no clue we are still in a economic depression and the govt's solution is to print trillions of dollars to give to banks and deny there is inflation when everyday items cost 2-3 times what they cost 5 years ago.

Lets make $30/hr min wage for any HS grad with a trig course even at McDs.

JLG3RD you know what you can do with your suggestion. And I have no problem stating that in person.

and maybe they understand you get want you pay for and they are looking for a quality employee. With that pay range they will probably get a number of candidates whom exceed the min. quals, therefore will be able to get the pick of the litter.

RAM wrote:and maybe they understand you get want you pay for and they are looking for a quality employee. With that pay range they will probably get a number of candidates whom exceed the min. quals, therefore will be able to get the pick of the litter.

HR is a strange animal, they do not hire over qualified personal for a position, even a good paying one.
I have discussed this with a number of HR people and the only explanation is that the person will move on as soon as a job requiring their qualifications and HIGHER pay comes along.
We will never know but my money is on a unskilled minority getting the job.

BTW A HR friend in Houston wants that job.

How does *****ing about survey techs making a living help the profession????

Did you ignore the written test part of the hiring process? submitting project work samples?

To imply that someone, who most of us on this board know personally, is going to hire an unskilled minority instead of doing his job and hiring the best person for the job is EXTREMELY disrespectful and unwarranted.

There are plenty of places to post about your hatred for labor, doing it here only discourages people from posting openings in their survey departments.

Ok what does a beginning apprentice in local 12 start at? or the bay local

Who cares (besides you) what the starting pay is? The fact is, there is a good paying surveying job available at a time when the good paying job advertisements are few and far between.

The employment hotline portion of this site and more specifically, the job listing posts are not the appropriate place to complain. Do it in the General forum, or send an email to the job provider and complain to them directly.

I think we should lobby CLSA to block the employment hotline from replies.

This part of the forum is for advertising job openings, not spouting your views.

pls7809 wrote:This part of the forum is for advertising job openings, not spouting your views.

Precisely!

Why, it's my money paying those salaries, stolen at the threat of arrest if not paid to the govt money grabbers. Shades of Nottingham

I think we should lobby CLSA to block the employment hotline from replies.

This part of the forum is for advertising job openings, not spouting your views.

As much as I like to read all this stuff and everyone's opinions, I have to agree with Ryan on this one