County Surveyor

General Definition of Work

Performs complex advanced technical work planning, executing, administering land surveying, and mapping activities in the County. Responsible for performing professional land survey work as determined by State and Federal laws and County Board actions. Work involves setting policies and goals under the direction of the Assistant County Administrator-Property Services. Departmental supervision is exercised over all personnel within the Department

Essential Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Uses independent judgment providing supervision and leadership to personnel under position’s span of control; makes and participates in decisions on matters of hiring, transfer, suspension, layoff, recall, promotion, discharge, assignment, reward, adjusting grievances or disciplining employees under position’s span of control; sets goals and objectives for others to work towards and monitors performance; creates and maintains a positive work environment fostering effective performance of staff.
• Establishes land boundaries and survey monuments; conducts surveys required by regulation or ordered by a court, public board or officer; develops and oversees a survey work plan; directs the marking of land lines and corners and the perpetuation and maintenance of Federal Public Land Survey System (PLSS) corner monuments, including maintenance of the PLS corners.
• Reviews, plans, prepares, and files plats, including Right-of-Way and subdivision plats; collaborates with County Highway staff to determine survey needs of projects; plans and directs field surveys to establish horizontal and vertical geodetic controls and locates and references proposed road alignments to the U.S. Public Land Survey.
• Supervises preparation of working and final drawings; performs inspections of proposed lots and road layouts; submits comments to the Planning Commission concerning feasibility and conformance of proposals; develops and maintains plat manuals; reviews documents for conformance to law and corrects as necessary; determines area of plats and lots; approves and signs subdivision plats, common interest community plats, and Registered Land Surveys (Torrens).
• Manages the Department budget; develops and directs others in development of Department operating budgets for the next cycle and capital budgets for longer-term cycles; provides informed input on matters relating to the annual operating and multi-year capital budgets.
• Oversees, reviews, and modifies the Department’s Continuity of Operations Plan.
• Performs other duties and activities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications & Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Physical Requirements

This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling and repetitive motions and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, tasting or smelling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work frequently requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, exposure to vibration and exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Wright County offers an exceptional benefit package including vacation, sick leave and holiday pay. Also included in this benefit package is health, preventative dental and life insurance; medical and dependent care reimbursement accounts (Section 125 Plan); deferred compensation plan and Public Employees Retirement (pension).