Surveyor in Training

Ardurra seeks a Surveyor-in-Training to join our Survey team in Tampa, FL.

Primary Function

In this position you will utilize your experience to support the Project Surveyor in organizing, executing, and coordinating projects.

This position provides office support to a Professional Land Surveyor on various boundary, topographic, route projects, and ALTA surveys along with platting.

Primary Duties


* Providing general, professional, and technical support in conventional and specialty aspects of land surveying


* Create boundary surveys (land title and ALTA/NSPS), topographic and easement drawings from deeds, plats and survey field data using AutoCAD Civil 3D


* Prepare plats, process and check conventional and GPS field data


* Input and retrieve information from survey instruments

Education and Experience Requirements


* Entry Level role or minimum years experience in a similar role within the land surveying department or surveying company


* Minimum of an Associates’ degree in Land Surveying/Geomatics, Bachelors’ degree preferred


* Passed the Fundamentals of Surveying Exam


* Registered or able to Register as an LSIT


* Proficient in the following: AutoCAD/ Civil 3D and MS Office Suite


* Maintain a high level of professionalism and possess good interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with all levels of staff and with clients


* Ability to follow direction and work cooperatively as part of a team

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work requires using a machete, shovel and sledgehammer or other appropriate tools.

Lifting and carrying equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.

over rough terrain may be required.

Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate various pieces of field equipment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms, speak, and hear.

The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and smell.

Able to get in and out of vehicle multiple times a day; drive 30 to 60 miles daily.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job.

The employee works outside in all types of weather conditions, possibly for extended periods of time.

The terrain may be rough, steep, wet or swampy.

Vegetation may be dense, and insects, snakes or animals may be encount...