Salt Lake County · 7 hours ago
Boundary Survey Program Manager
Salt Lake City, UT
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expSalt Lake County is seeking a Boundary Survey Program Manager to provide surveying and mapping services, right-of-way documentation, and boundary conflict resolution to public and government agencies. This role involves managing the County Surveyor's right-of-way program and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
Customer ServiceGovernmentService Industry
Responsibilities
Manages, coordinates, and develops the Salt Lake County Surveyor's right-of-way program, survey control network, GPS base station, and monument history database
Represents the County Surveyor concerning right-of-way and survey boundary design
Ensures compliance with right-of-way documents and boundary survey standards established by local, state, and federal requirements
Supervises staff, which includes hiring, orienting, training, assigning, and reviewing work performance, annual work performance appraisals, and discipline
Coordinates the exchange of survey control information between administration, surveyors, other divisions, and governmental agencies
Assists the County Surveyor, or his designee, in implementing mandated statutorily defined monument preservation requirements
Prepares, reviews, verifies, and coordinates right-of-way plats, deeds, easements, descriptions, subdivision plats, final local entity plats, and documents in support of county projects and incidental property acquisitions or conveyances
Directs title searches and abstracts of records to identify ownership of property, easements, and rights of way
Interfaces and coordinates with local, state, and federal jurisdictions to provide service to the public and other county agencies
Reports, investigates, and corrects valid complaints received by the County Surveyor following county policies and procedures
Coordinates and prepares the transfer and distribution of information with other departments, divisions, and agencies
Assists the public, governmental agencies, and other departments in the research and interpretation of documents and plats
Uses an approved sectional budget effectively, following section requirements and departmental goals and objectives
Performs special projects
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Surveying, Drafting, Pre-engineering, or Geographic Studies, plus two (2) years of related experience; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience
A valid Driver's License issued by the State of Utah may be required to operate a vehicle
The successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements
Knowledge of civil engineering mathematics principles and practices
Knowledge of surveying principles, techniques, and laws
Knowledge of legal land description, principles, and interpretation of documents
Knowledge of laws and regulations regarding parcel boundaries
Knowledge of database management and its applications
Knowledge of topographic and cadastral surveying
Knowledge of geodetic surveying and the State Plane Coordinate System
Knowledge of mainframe, Internet, and Intranet applications
Knowledge of highway, street, and drainage design
Skills and abilities to use and operate equipment, tools, technology, and software related to job-specific duties
Skills and abilities to use and manipulate aerial photography
Skills and abilities to translate and rotate State Plane Coordinates
Skills and abilities to scan, archive, and retrieve documents
Skills and abilities to collect and process static and RTK GPS data
Skills and abilities to perform record abstracting and boundary line conflict resolutions
Skills and abilities to prepare drawings, descriptions, and documents of property and easement boundaries
Skills and abilities to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
Skills and abilities to supervise, direct, and allocate work assignments
Skills and abilities to develop, design, and interpret survey field notes, engineering plans, notes, and specifications
Skills and abilities to follow verbal and written procedures and instructions
Skills and abilities to investigate and interpret problems involving legal boundaries and easement descriptions
Skills and abilities to exercise independent judgment to carry out assignments and operations
Benefits
12 Holidays
Up to 24 vacation days
12 sick days and one personal day every year
Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
Professional Development including professional membership fees paid
Tuition Reimbursement
Company
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake County is a website of the Salt lake country government.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.5MKey Investors
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2022-11-03Grant· $0.5M
Leadership Team
Jelani Taylor
Talent Partner
Lisa Hoskins, PHR
Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner
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