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Job Opening – Land Surveyor – BLM – UT

September 16, 2024

September 13th, 2024 – Explore a new career with the BLM – where our people are our most precious resource.

This position is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Information about Salt Lake City and the surrounding area can be found here.

We expect to fill 1 vacancy at this time; however, additional positions may be filled from this announcement if they become available.

Applications open September 13th and will be accepted until October 7th, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/809475800

  • Announcement number UTMP-24-12544516-BG
  • Control number 809475800

Salary Ranges – Salt Lake City, Utah
GS 12: $86,962 – $113,047 per year

  • This position serves as a Land Surveyor in the Division of Lands and Minerals at the Utah State Office.
  • Performs work that involves establishing, investigating, and reestablishing land and property boundaries for descriptions of tracts of land.
  • Uses professional knowledge of the concepts, principles, and techniques of surveying including underlying mathematics and physical science, in combination with knowledge of land ownership laws.
  • Plans, directs, documents, and guides highly complex boundary investigations, surveys, and resurveys of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) in accordance with the Public Land Laws, IBLA decisions, and the Manual of Surveying Instructions.
  • Prepares draft Special Instructions for survey requests of Federal agencies after accurately researching, collecting, documenting, and interpreting the administrative and historical records.
  • Prepares professional legal reports for the permanent survey group file record, documenting circumstances that support unusual survey decisions.
  • Prepares field notes of surveys in final form and plats of surveys in near final form from the field returns.
  • Designs data collection projects and collects accurate geodetic data to verify accuracy and reliability of existing surveys and/or to provide more precise positions for the Geographic Data Coordinate Data Base (GCDB).
  • Assures the methods and procedures for incorporating GPS technology into the performance of cadastral surveys are consistent throughout the State and compatible with existing databases.
  • Researches and prepares responses to both internal and external inquiries pertaining to cadastral surveys or the official survey records and land ownership.