Land Surveying Program Manager

The Arapahoe County government serves its communities in ways both obvious and obscure. As the beating heart of local and regional government, we’re here for our neighbors on their best days—and their worst. We share our residents’ goals of preserving our quality of life and strive to be the place we’re proud to call home.

Coordinates the Department’s Land Surveying program to ensure compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, policies, and best practices. Applies land surveying principles to produce and review boundaries, rights-of-way, easements, plats, and plans. Requires registration as a Professional Land Surveyor in the State of Colorado. Considerable professional judgment is exercised in the performance of work.

Responsible for day-to-day operation and performance of the Land Surveying program within Public Works and Development Department and the County overall to ensure compliance with statutes, regulations, policies, and best practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Serves in the role of County Surveyor in accordance with the Colorado Revised Statute 30-10-903, Duties and Powers of the County Surveyor. Such duties include conducting surveys to establish boundaries for County property and County-owned rights-of-way; examining survey maps for proper recording; performing geodetic control, vertical control, and construction surveys; maintaining a record of County survey monuments; providing or upgrading survey monuments;
  
  and providing other services requiring the expertise of a professional land surveyor.
• Provides guidance and support to PWD divisions, other County departments/offices, and the public on matters related to parcel boundaries, County rights-of-way, easements, plats, and plans.
• Prepares, signs, and seals legal descriptions for County-initiated vacations, easements, acquisitions, and right-of-way projects.
• Performs/prepares surveys, engineering drawings, legal descriptions, plats, and related records as needed by various departments within the County and may perform design surveys on capital improvements projects.
• Locates, prepares, and reviews land parcel maps to accurately represent land parcels, roads, subdivisions, and survey reference points.
• Assists customers in obtaining information pertaining to the location, description, and ownership of land parcels and other related inquiries.
• Resolves conflicting boundary and parcel information by researching and interpreting historical documents, subdivision plats, and deeds.
• Performs complex mathematical computations using trigonometry and coordinate geometry. Interprets bearings, angles, curves, distances, and coordinates in reviewing and researching various documents. Uses specialized software (AutoCAD and GIS) and techniques to enter boundaries on maps and to review subdivision plats.
• Applies data by AutoCAD and/or GIS digital formatting to produce engineering designs, construction plans, land use maps, drainage maps, signs, and diagrams.
• Provides support to the Department’s GIS staff in interpreting survey documents for the preparation of County property tax maps and for other functions as needed.

• Reviews and approves legal descriptions submitted to the County for easements and rights-of-way associated with land development cases or right-of-way projects.
• Reviews annexations, subdivision plats, and Land Development cases submitted to the Planning Division for conformance with the County’s Subdivision
• Regulations, Land Development Code, surveying checklists and policies, and applicable state laws. Provides expertise and support to Planning and Engineering Services Division staff on Land Development Code revisions.
• Assigns addresses for new subdivision lots and other development in unincorporated Arapahoe County.
• Prepares maps, visual display materials, graphics, and forms. Transfers data to reproducible and non-reproducible maps (manual and automated) using AutoCAD.

• Ensures policies and procedures are being adhered to, identifies gaps, and makes recommendations.
• Recommends updates to County standards, manuals and criteria.
• Actively participates in a…