Professional Land Surveyor

Open Until Filled

Join the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) as a Professional Land Surveyor! Are you ready to take the lead in shaping Wyoming's infrastructure? WYDOT is seeking a skilled and dedicated Professional Land Surveyor for Right of Way to join our team in Cheyenne, Wyoming
. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to be the lead surveyor overseeing contract administration for exciting and impactful highway projects across the state.

In this dynamic position, you'll play a key role in ensuring the successful execution of vital transportation initiatives, while contributing to the growth and development of Wyoming's infrastructure. If you're looking for a challenge, a chance to lead, and an opportunity to make a lasting impact, this is your next career move!

$2,000 Hiring Bonus – see notes for eligibility

• Culture of public service and a commitment to work/life balance
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• State Retirement plan and additional savings opportunities (deferred compensation)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
• Relocation Assistance

Cheyenne is a steadily growing community along the Front Range, but still true to the history of the Old West. The city offers nearby mountain biking, skiing, hiking, fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities. Wyoming is one of only nine states with no state income tax.

Apply today and be part of a team that helps drive Wyoming forward!

Human Resource Contact:

• Prepares recommendations used to design construction projects with varying levels of complexity
• Directs the development, coordination, and scheduling of land survey projects
• Assures compliance with state and federal laws, rules, and regulations and with agency operating policy
• Reviews and examines land survey work products
• Produces detailed written reviews and reports
• Reviews preliminary plan issuances and provides recommendations and changes
• Prepares survey data used in the design of highway plans
• Researches and prepares land ownership maps
• Provides appropriate application of boundary control and legal principles
• Coordinates with contract services
• Provides technical analysis, support, and resolution involving right-of-way engineering, title examination, real property conflicts, state land securement, federal land appropriation, and research
• Professionally certifies reports, plats, and plans
• Answers technical questions posed by other programs
• Resolves conflicts related to writing legal descriptions and entitlements
• Prepares court presentations and serves as an expert witness
• Prepares and records final documents
• Researches and maintains historical survey information and legal documents
• Explains agency policies, procedures, and practices to the Board of Commissioners, individuals, or groups
• Analyzes, interprets, evaluates, and makes professional decisions to make correct corner, boundary, and property ownership determinations
• Reviews right-of-way plans – establishes a monument of right-of-way boundaries
• Performs Contract Administration duties
• Surveys, tests, inspects, and ensures safety and documentation associated with construction projects
• Conducts or arranges for crew training in areas including computer software, survey procedures, safety, construction procedures, and practices
• Checks the documentation and quantities of work for the contractor's payment
• Directs positive public relations with people directly concerned with construction projects, including contractors, suppliers, landowners, businesses, and the traveling public
• Partners with contractors at all phases of a project to ensure that construction projects are completed on time, on budget, at an acceptable quality level, and in a safe manner
• Ensures WYDOT standards are being met
• Reviews proposed plans, reports, and data for details, accuracy, and completeness, and makes changes as required
• Prepares horizontal and vertical alignment calculations from preliminary survey data

• Knowledge of the concepts, theories, methods, practices, and procedures of surveying, state and common law relating to property, boundaries, and highways, and the legal principles of land surveying
• Knowledge of the…