Salary Ranges - North Bend OR, Prineville OR, and Spokane Valley WA: GS-5: $37,696 - $49,009 per year; GS-07: $46,696 - $60,703 per year; GS-09: $57,118 - $74,250 per year; and GS-11: $69,107 - $89,835 per year.
Salary Ranges - Portland OR: GS-5: $40,440 - $52,577 per year; GS-07: $50,094 - $65,122 per year; GS-09: $61,275 -$ 79,655 per year; and GS-11: $ 74,137 - $96,375 per year.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level (GS-11). Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.
The selectee will conduct surveys and re-surveys for projects involving a variety of problems and complexity where unique situations are not anticipated. Most assignments are characterized by inadequate or inconclusive data requiring extensive research and interpretation of land records, historical data, and legal decisions, and will encounter situations of varying degrees of complexity from simple to multi-faceted/complex.
At the grade GS-5, you are a trainee, gaining familiarity with conducting field surveys, preparing field notes, and drafting plats for Cadastral Surveys.
At the grade GS-7, you are an advanced trainee land surveyor, and responsible for conducting field surveys, preparing field notes, and drafting plats for Cadastral Surveys Major duties include, but are not limited to:
- Establishing, investigating, and reestablishing land and property boundaries.
- Preparing plats and legal descriptions for tracts of land.
- Planning and conducting routine and simpler surveys and re-surveys involving problems of moderate complexity.
- Conducting research to find and interpret land records, historical data, and legal decisions.
- Examining physical evidence recovered in the field and assessing the evidence acceptability with the support of recorded historical documents for positioning boundaries or resolving disputes.
At the grade GS-9, you will function as a Land Surveyor responsible for the conduct of field surveys, preparation of field notes and draft plats for Cadastral Surveys. Major duties include,
but are not limited to:
- Establishing, investigating, and re-establishing land and property boundaries.
- Preparing plats and legal descriptions for tracts of land.
- Planning and conducting routine surveys and re-surveys involving problems of moderate complexity.
- Conducting surveys in the full field-to-finish mode, using electronic data collection and computer-based measurement software.
- Examining physical evidence recovered in the field and assessing its acceptability with the support of recorded historical documents for positioning boundaries and/or resolving disputes.
At the grade GS-11, you are considered a journeyman-level Land Surveyor and advisor to the Field and/or District management team, land users, and interested publics. You will act as the principal contact and negotiator for multiple use management within the field office. Major duties include,
but are not limited to:
- Serving as chief of party on land surveys involving complexities, such as problems caused by changing watercourses or erroneous original meander lines; distorted or fraudulent prior surveys; obliterated or unrecoverable monuments; extremely high value property; actual or probable litigation; conflicting land records and survey data; omitted lands (such as islands); or application of new or experimental survey equipment and techniques.
- Coordinating and integrating separate phases of survey projects and exercising professional knowledge/judgment in adapting and applying field survey methods, techniques, and procedures to day-to-day operations.
- Conducting surveys in the full field-to-finish mode, using electronic data collection and computer-based measurement software.
- Exercising professional level judgment and evaluations of the results for all computations and display of results.
- Examining physical evidence recovered in the field and assessing its acceptability with the support of recorded historical documents for positioning boundaries or resolving disputes.
