Surveyor

• This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of two days a week in office in Austin, Texas and the remainder of time working remotely within the state of Texas!
  
  

Do you enjoy being of service to your community, thrive working in a collaborative environment with multidisciplinary teams and enjoy providing excellent customer service to your clients? The LCRA Surveying, GIS and Technical Services (SGTS) department is hiring a Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS). As a surveyor for LCRA you will collaborate with other project teams to develop scopes and budgets in connection with professional surveying services for capital electric utility projects. You will lead a survey production team and be responsible for reviewing, commenting and approving survey and subsurface utility engineering (SUE) deliverables from our survey and SUE contractors. Our ideal candidate will be a responsible, detail oriented and forward-thinking professional who can understand customer needs, deploy adequate technology and apply professional criteria and surveying/SUE standards and guidelines to deliver quality products to our customers. If this sounds like you, apply within!

You Will Be Trusted To

• Plan, perform and take full responsibility for moderately complex land surveys. Estimate project costs and schedules. Write statements of work for incorporation into project scope and budget. Represent our department in project meetings. Perform field data analysis, correlation and compile data. Coordinate and review the work of surveyors, technicians, craft workers or others to the extent of assuming professional responsibility for the work. Personally affix seal or communicate vital changes to the responsible surveyor for correction.
• Prepare, sign, seal and certify surveys and legal descriptions for land acquisition.
• Analyze and interpret survey field information and analyze record boundary information to determine the location of real property boundaries.
• Identify actual and potential problems. Investigate and analyze problems and determine appropriate solutions.
• Perform computer-aided drafting to refine maps from parcel information and field data for: the platting and layout of lands and subdivisions of lands, field working drawings, boundary and easement analysis, final plats to accompany descriptions, engineering plan drawings and presentation drawings for various internal and external customers. Prepare and perpetuate maps, records plats, field note records, easements and real property descriptions that represent surveys. Draft field note descriptions for boundary surveys and easement acquisition.
• Research previous survey evidence, maps, deeds, physical evidence and other records to acquire data needed for surveys.
• Locate geodetic control for routine field operations, hydrographic surveys and geographic information system related mapping.
• Plan and perform global position system surveys to establish and densify geodetic control for use by LCRA, other governmental agencies, and private sector surveying and engineering firms.
• Assist engineers with alignment calculations.
• Develop and deliver various reports and presentations.
• Establish effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Represent LCRA on task forces, within the community and on other outside surveying and standards organizations.
• Gather surveying information by traveling independently to various locations as necessary.
• Coordinate work with survey and subsurface utility engineering (SUE) contractors.
• Maintain work and delivery schedules with contractors.
  
  

You Qualify With

• Professional Land Surveyor (PLS)
• Driver's license
  
  

You Are a Great Fit With

• Registered Professional Land Surveyor license (RPLS) in the State of Texas
• Surveyor actively licensed in a state other than Texas must obtain Registered Professional Land Surveyor license in the State of Texas within a timeframe determined by management.
• Experience with subsurface utility engineering (SUE) standards
  
  

You Gain

• Competitive salary & medical, dental, vision and legal insurance
• Paid time off, including time for vacation, sick and family care leave
• 401(k) match up to 8% that includes a student loan 401(k) contribution program option
• Life and disability insurance
• Wellness program including wellness incentive
• Extensive learning & development programs
  
  

And more - all to create a compelling and rewarding work environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at LCRA are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal and state legal requirements governing nondiscrimination in employment.

LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact LCRA Human Resources (512) 578-4004 or email lcra.benefits@lcra.org . Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.