Part-Time (As Needed) Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operator

Johnson, Mirmiran, and Thompson Inc. • Winston-Salem, NC • 22h ago

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position Summary: JMT is currently seeking Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operator for their Winston-Salem, North Carolina Office. The successful candidate for this position may operate surveying instruments, such as conventional and Robotic Total Stations, Static and RTK/VRS GPS, and conventional and electronic levels. Position may be responsible for taking field notes, making field sketches, and entering data into data collectors and computers.

Immigration sponsorship or support (e.g. H1B, F-1 CPT/OPT/STEM OPT) is not available for this position, except for qualified candidates eligible for the TN visa classification.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Position and hold the prism rods, or targets, that Instrument operators use for measure angles, distances, and elevations

Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and Data Collectors.

Run levels and level rods for benchmarks and cross-section elevations

Search for property monuments, and other survey points

Set and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation

Operate surveying instruments such as prisms rods, Total Stations, and GPS equipment

Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans

Maintain equipment and load supplies in vehicles used by surveying crews

Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for line of sight, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Skills

Must successfully complete and pass JMT's Motor Vehicle screening

Valid Driver's License

May use Computer Assisted Drafting (CAD), accurate data entry skills, ability to operate and master various electronic devices and software programs as needed for surveying and mapping

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

Ability to retain knowledge of daily routines and able apply logic and common sense understanding to carry out detailed written and oral instructions

Ability to work in small groups

Ability to solve problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations

Required Experience

High school diploma or equivalent

Preferred Experience

Associate's degree preferred, Field of Study: Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar degree @type or relevant experience

Related experience

No prior experience necessary but preferred

Working Conditions

Work is performed in the field 90% of the time. Ability to extensively perform bending, kneeling, standing, shoveling, and lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 30 lbs. as needed. Work will be conducted outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. The employee will be required to walk while carrying equipment in various conditions and terrains from steep slopes to swaps and congested urban areas and roadways.

Work is performed within a general office environment 10% of the time. Office work is generally sedentary in nature but may require occasional standing and walking. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. within the office environment.

Some travel required.

Some night shift work required.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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