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Surveying Technician I - Rodman/Instrument Operator

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Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm of more than 2,400 professionals that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT, is currently ranked #50 on Engineering News-Records list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Job Description

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm of more than 2,400 professionals that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT, is currently ranked #50 on Engineering News-Records 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. This position is not eligible for employer-based sponsorship with the exception of 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 Drivers 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

Preferred Experience

• Associates degree preferred, Field of Study: Land Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar degree type or relevant 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.

Anticipated travel 20% of the time.

Benefits

JMT offers outstanding opportunities for career and professional growth. We are 100% employee-owned (ESOP) and offer outstanding health care coverage and other benefits, including:

• Affordable Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Company paid Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Caregiver Leave Program
• 401K Retirement Plan (Traditional and Roth options)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Career Development Programs
• And more

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Management

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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