Land Survey Technician

Rochester, MN

Find balance in Rochester, Minnesota!

Enjoy everything an urban metropolitan area offers, with bucolic fields, streams, and bluffs just minutes from the city’s center. Widseth is a growing E/A firm with a solid history in this community. Widseth offers competitive salaries and an excellent benefit package—AND the opportunity to balance a diverse, urban lifestyle with open, rural spaces.

As a Land Survey Technician at Widseth, you’ll obtain data for a variety of residential and commercial projects and perform boundary surveys, topographic and ALTA surveys, easement and flood insurance surveys, and commercial construction staking. If you love variety of projects along with working outdoors in the field, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Your focus will be on:

• Locating section corners, property corners, and survey control points under the direction of a land surveyor or engineer.
• Preparing topographic and contour maps of land surveyed, including site features and other relevant information, and completing survey notes in a timely manner.
• Perform stake-out services for commercial construction projects.
• Interacting with clients and/or contractors. Teamwork and good communication are important.

To be considered for this position you’ll need to meet the minimum qualifications for a technician role:

• 2 + years related experience working as a technician in the field.
• Associates degree in Land Surveying or Civil Technology.
• Knowledge of survey equipment such as GPS, Total Station, and data collector.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Valid driver’s license.

Widseth is a thriving, well-established professional services firm providing architecture, engineering, land surveying, environmental, and associated services throughout the Upper Midwest. With more than 200 employees working from nine offices across Minnesota and North Dakota, Widseth combines the stability of a mid-sized firm with a small-firm experience. We offer competitive compensation, discretionary annual profit-sharing and bonuses, health, life and disability insurances, paid time off, and paid holidays. EOE/AA