Professional Land Surveyor

State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 86,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City seeks a Professional Land Surveyor I-II responsible for advanced surveying, ALTA/ACSM approaches, and related boundary work. You may supervise survey crews and ensure high-accuracy results across public land projects.

Responsibilities include establishing control monuments, conducting title searches, and interpreting parcel descriptions. Eligibility requires OK registration and may include a background check and drug test as part of onboarding.

Qualifications

• Registration as a Land Surveyor with the Oklahoma State Board of Registration.
• Two years of land surveying experience after registration (for Level II).
• Pre-employment requirements may include background check, drug screening, and physical abilities test.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate land survey records and field evidence to re-establish boundaries.
• Conduct title searches using ownership, easements, and deeds.
• Interpret property descriptions of parcels of land.
• Establish control monuments for alignments and rights-of-way.
• Locate watersheds and support hydrological studies and bridge design.

Skills

Land surveying

Education

Land Surveyor registration

Job description

Job Posting End Date

Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Job Posting Title

Professional Land Surveyor

Agency

345 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

• Level I: $85,700
• Level II: $94,200

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Our benefits go beyond the basics, offering annual benefit allowances, a variety of health, dental, and vision plan options, paid annual and sick leave that rolls over each year, 11 paid holidays, robust retirement savings plans, and an EAP & wellness program to support you every step of the way.

Annual Benefit Allowance

• The benefits allowance covers up to $20,538.24 for employees and their dependents to enroll in benefits.

Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• The State offers several different medical, dental, and vision plans to better fit your needs. Including options to enroll in a Health Savings Account (HSA) or a Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Retirement Savings Plans

• Pathfinder Defined Contribution Plan: available to employees who began State employment after November 1st, 2015.
• Employer matches 6% with an employee contribution of 4.5%.
• Employer matches 7% with an employee contribution of 7% or above.
• OPERS Defined Benefit Plan: available to returning employees who were previously enrolled in OPERS.

Annual & Sick Leave (PTO)

• 15 days accrued annually during the first 1–5 years of service.
• 18 days accrued annually for 5–10 years of service.
• 20 days accrued annually for 10–20 years of service.
• 25 days accrued annually for over 20 years of service.
• Sick leave: Accrued at 15 days per year

Paid Holidays

• 11 paid holidays per year

Longevity Pay

• Longevity payments are paid annually to eligible State employees with a minimum of 2 years of State service.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• EAP is a cooperative effort between employees and administration to help employees gain access to professional services in resolving personal problems.

Job Description

Position Title

Professional Land Surveyor I-II

Division

9

FLSA Status

Exempt

Trial Period

12 Months

Note: Candidates selected for positions at the Oklahoma Department of Transportation may be required to complete a pre-employment background check, drug screening, and physical abilities test before beginning employment.

Basic Purpose

Positions in this job family are responsible for performing and supervising a variety of advanced professional tasks involved in land surveying geodetic surveying, American Land Title Association (ALTA)/American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) surveys, dependent or independent surveys and resurveys of the public land system; serve as an expert witness for state and local agencies, consultants and the public; to bear a high level of liability for professional survey decisions; and supervise the work of one or more survey location parties.

Typical Functions

• Evaluates existing and original land survey records, field evidence and previous surveys in re-establishing section and half section, city, state, federal, private and tribal land corner monuments and reference monuments.
• Conducts title searches through review of current ownership, easements and deeds using knowledge of cadastral information, existing plats, filed deeds and easements.
• Interprets and/or determines property descriptions of parcels of land.
• Re-establishes the exact boundaries of cities, towns and legal subdivisions, tribal and other government lands as shown on field plats of Government Land Office (GLO) notes; maintains High Accuracy Reference Network (HARN) and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) networks.
• Establishes researches and determines control monumentation for alignments or alternate alignments of proposed freeways, complex interchanges, bridges, highways, easements or rights-of-way.
• Locates, deciphers and interprets watersheds and their flow characteristics for hydrological studies and/or bridge design functions.
• Trains subordinate employees.

Level Descriptor

This is the specialist level where incumbents perform professional surveying work in establishing land boundaries for various activities such as highway right-of-way acquisitions and for other purposes as directed by higher authority and oversee multiple survey crews and/or multiple survey projects including urban projects involving numerous or multiple platted subdivisions or complex interchange projects.

Education And Experience

Level I

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of registration as a Land Surveyor with the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Level II

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of registration as a Land Surveyor with the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and two years of land surveying experience subsequent to registration.

Special Requirements

Some positions may require possession of a valid Oklahoma Driver's license or commercial driver's license at time of appointment in order to operate required equipment or vehicles or that selected applicants pass a drug test prior to appointment. Some agencies may have determined positions in this job family to be safety sensitive as defined by63 O.S.

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Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.

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