Title:  Land Surveying Program Manager

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF JOB:

Coordinates the Department’s Land Surveying program to ensure compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, policies, and best practices.  Applies land surveying principles to produce and review boundaries, rights-of-way, easements, plats, and plans.  Requires registration as a Professional Land Surveyor in the State of Colorado.  Considerable professional judgment is exercised in the performance of work.

DUTIES:

Responsible for the day-to-day operation and performance of the Land Surveying program within Public Works and Development Department and the County overall to ensure compliance with statutes, regulations, policies, and best practices.  Key responsibilities include:

County Surveyor

• Serves in the role of County Surveyor in accordance with the Colorado Revised Statute 30-10-903, Duties and Powers of the County Surveyor.  Such duties include conducting surveys to establish boundaries for County property and County-owned rights-of-way; examining survey maps for proper recording; performing geodetic control, vertical control, and construction surveys; maintaining a record of County survey monuments; providing or upgrading survey monuments; and providing other services requiring the expertise of a professional land surveyor.
• Provides guidance and support to PWD divisions, other County departments/offices, and the public on matters related to parcel boundaries, County rights-of-way, easements, plats, and plans.
• Prepares, signs, and seals legal descriptions for County-initiated vacations, easements, acquisitions, and right-of-way projects.  
• Performs/prepares surveys, engineering drawings, legal descriptions, plats, and related records as needed by various departments within the County and may perform design surveys on capital improvements projects.
• Locates, prepares, and reviews land parcel maps to accurately represent land parcels, roads, subdivisions, and survey reference points. 
• Assists customers in obtaining information pertaining to the location, description, and ownership of land parcels and other related inquiries.
• Resolves conflicting boundary and parcel information by researching and interpreting historical documents, subdivision plats, and deeds.
• Performs complex mathematical computations using trigonometry and coordinate geometry.  Interprets bearings, angles, curves, distances, and coordinates in reviewing and researching various documents.  Uses specialized software (AutoCAD and GIS) and techniques to enter boundaries on maps and to review subdivision plats.
• Applies data by AutoCAD and/or GIS digital formatting to produce engineering designs, construction plans, land use maps, drainage maps, signs, and diagrams.
• Provides support to the Department’s GIS staff in interpreting survey documents for the preparation of County property tax maps and for other functions as needed.

Land Development Review

• Reviews and approves legal descriptions submitted to the County for easements and rights-of-way associated with land development cases or right-of-way projects.
• Reviews annexations, subdivision plats, and Land Development cases submitted to the Planning Division for conformance with the County’s Subdivision Regulations, Land Development Code, surveying checklists and policies, and applicable state laws.  Provides expertise and support to Planning and Engineering Services Division staff on Land Development Code revisions.
• Assigns addresses for new subdivision lots and other development in unincorporated Arapahoe County.
• Prepares maps, visual display materials, graphics, and forms.  Transfers data to reproducible and non-reproducible maps (manual and automated) using AutoCAD.

Administrative

• Ensures policies and procedures are being adhered to, identifies gaps, and makes recommendations.
• Recommends updates to County standards, manuals and criteria.
• Actively participates in a variety of meetings with Department and County colleagues, customers, colleagues in other jurisdictions, and with elected officials. 
• Prepares and presents information to the public and County leadership.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education and Experience:  

• Bachelor's degree with major coursework in land surveying, cartography, geodesy, geographical information systems, civil engineering, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of six (6) years professional level experience in cadastral land surveying or other relevant experience.
• Experience supporting public works, transportation, utility, or land‐development projects using land surveying.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Any equivalent combination of education and work experience that satisfy the requirements of the job may be considered.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Experience providing land development services within a government agency.

Pre-Employment Additional Requirements:

• Must successfully pass pre-employment testing which includes an acceptable motor vehicle record (MVR) and background check.
• Possession of a valid Class “R” Colorado Driver’s License or the ability to obtain one within two weeks of appointment.
• The incumbent of this position is required to possess and maintain a Certificate of Licensure as a Professional Land Surveyor in the State of Colorado.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Work is primarily performed in a standard office environment; however, field duties within Arapahoe County are required on occasion. 
• Exposure to hazardous road conditions and weather elements may occur when conducting fieldwork.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The following are some of the physical demands commonly associated with this position.

• Spends 80% of the time sitting and 20% of the time either standing or walking.
• Occasionally lifts, carries, pulls or pushes up to 20 lbs.
• Occasionally uses cart, dolly, or other equipment to carry in excess of 20 lbs.
• Occasionally climbs, stoops, kneels, balances, reaches, crawls and crouches while performing office or work duties.
• Verbal and auditory capacity enabling constant interpersonal communication through automated devices, such as telephones, radios, and similar; and in public meetings and personal interactions.
• Constant use of eye, hand and finger coordination enabling the use of automated office machinery or equipment.
• Visual capacity enabling constant use of computer or other work-related equipment.

Definitions:

• Occasionally: Activity exists less than 1/3 of the time.
• Frequently: Activity exists between 1/3 and 2/3 of the time.
• Constantly: Activity exists more than 2/3 of the time.