Surveyor Land Current Vacancies

2008-06-13:

Land or engineering surveyors measure and chart the precise shape of natural and artificial features on a sites surface, infrastructure roads, tunnels and bridges, land redevelopment, mining, quarrying and waste management operations.
Feasibility studies exploratory surveys are carried out on a potential site to assess the economic viability of a proposed project. remote sensing mapping of land cover and use, utilising satellite imagery, measurements of site features.

Geomatics data collection and manipulation surveyors collate the data using geographic information systems GIS for analysis and interpretation of site characteristics. planners and architects to produce construction designs and setting out plans.

Land surveyors may specialise in mapping underwater features, known as hydrographic surveying. work, surveying natural waterways and canals for environmental projects, dredging operations or navigational charts; or offshore work linked to site surveys for oil and gas platforms, undersea mining or location and salvage of sunken.

Land surveyors work 35 to 40 hours a week. surveying firms, banks, building societies, insurance companies and Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.
Career progression can include overall project management, specialisation in a particular aspect of land surveying or working as a self-employed consultant, Experienced surveyors. (Permalink)