Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position Summary: JMT is currently seeking Surveying Technician / Inspector I for their Sylva, North Carolina Office. The successful candidate for this position will adjust and operate surveying instruments, such as the theodolite and electronic distance-measuring equipment, and compiles notes, make sketches and enter data into computers. They will also assist the survey team by gathering and maintaining specified data for land surveying. Finally, they will complete simple routine tasks under close supervision.

Immigration sponsorship or support (e.g. H1B, F-1 CPT/OPT/STEM OPT) is not available for this position, except for qualified candidates eligible for the TN visa classification.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used
Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting in-order-to measure angles, distances, and elevations
Record survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings
Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations
Search for section corners, property irons, and survey points
Set out and recover stakes, marks, and other monumentation
Adjust and operate surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance-measuring equipment
Compile information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans
Conduct surveys using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments
Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews
Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods

Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

Perform other related duties as assigned

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is an employee owned, multi-disciplined firm offering a full array of planning, design, and construction phase consulting services for infrastructure projects throughout the United States and its territories since 1971. Our client base consists of federal, state, and local government agencies as well as many private institutions, commercial, and industrial clients. We provide complete solutions for the following markets: Buildings & Facilities Federal Programs Transportation Utilities JMT’s staff consists of engineers, architects, planners, environmental specialists, and construction professionals who are involved in every phase of project development to ensure the success of every project. We provide a wide variety of services which encompass: Architecture & Interior Design Condition Assessment & Inspection Design Environmental & Sustainable Solutions Information Technology Planning Program & Construction Management Surveys & Mapping Our approach to projects is to use our imagination to envision all the possibilities, use innovation in all the solutions developed, attain involvement of all stakeholders, and produce projects that have immediate impact, making a definitive difference to all users. JMT is an ISO 9001: 2015 certified firm and is currently ranked No. 50 on Engineering News-Record's list of "The Top 500 Design Firms". Please visit us at www.jmt.com. Looking to join JMT? Visit us at www.jmt.com/careers for opportunities.

Surveying Technician / Inspector I

Surveying Technician / Inspector I

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