Land Technician

Requisition ID # 170376 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Operations - Other

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Sacramento

Department Overview

The Land Surveying and Engineering Support (LS&ES) team is a group of 100 dedicated employees providing land surveying and mapping services in support of gas and electric transmission and distribution projects. These services include rights-of-way drawings, easement documents, engineering support drawings (plan & profile), topographic mapping and construction staking.

Position Summary

This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective bargaining.

You must be able to travel at least 50% of the time within the PG&E service territory, including occasional overnight stays.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreement, and internal equity.

Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, the starting hourly rate range for this position is $43.58 to $61.97, subject to collectively bargained wage increases.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform routine work as a member of a survey party, make precise survey measurements using conventional and state of the art surveying instruments; interpret legal descriptions of real property; make and interpret survey calculations; research, analyze, check, and adjust survey data; research title and compile evidence and documentation for boundary determination.  Operate the survey vehicle.
• Prepare maps from field notes, office data, and title searches for condemnation proceedings, obtain rights-of-way, purchase land, obtain government permits, and obtain leases and other land documents. Plot plan profiles, road cross-sections, topography, contours, and special drawings. Check mathematical computations of others.
• Assemble information for, and processing, clearing, and correcting of rights-of-way and land matters. This work includes such duties as preparing legal descriptions of real property; preparing all routine documents necessary for the acquisition of easements by the Company; processing necessary forms for the procuring of permits; preparing and processing quitclaims; securing signatures; securing permits; inspecting property; preliminarily investigating encroachments; and preparing clear and concise reports and correspondence.
   

Qualifications

Minimum:

• 2 years of Civil Engineering or Survey Technology training or the equivalent in education and/or experience in surveying of land and title work
• Must possess a valid California driver’s license or ability to obtain by first day of employment
• The physical ability to do field survey work.

Desired:

• Experience using MicroStation and/or AutoCAD
• Take initiative and can work with minimal direction
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Field or office experience in a land surveying capacity
• Ability to effectively work with and support colleagues
• Experience generating plan/profile mapping, topographic mapping and construction staking
• Experience writing/interpreting legal land descriptions