County Surveyor - City & County of San Francisco - Public Works (0941) (153814)

San Francisco Public Works is searching for exceptional candidates to fill this exciting and critical position to serve as the City & County of San Francisco County Surveyor. In this role, you will deliver specialized support services for the Department of Public Works. Your responsibilities include leading your team’s activities, strategic planning, development, and execution.

Additionally, you will oversee all mapping division processes and subdivision projects. The role is crucial to the creation of new neighborhoods and the remaking of old ones in the City & County of San Francisco

As County Surveyor, you shall possess the same power in the City and County in making surveys, plats and certificates as is or may be given by law to county surveyors as needed. The official acts and all plats, surveys and certificates of the County Surveyor shall have the same validity and be of the same force and effect as are or may be given by law to those of county surveyors.

Essential Duties

As the County Surveyor, your duties may include but are not limited to the following:

• Provide support functions to Department of Public Works management, and is responsible for planning, assigning, monitoring, and evaluating the work of subordinates, monitoring and managing Monument Referencing, Monument Preservation and Subdivision Funds
• Supervise land surveyors, and sub-professional personnel engaged in maintaining official records for monument control, checking map applications prepared for purposes of subdividing and creating condominium units.
• Evaluate and process street vacations, and survey records prepared by licensed land surveyors for technical and record information accuracy concerning the California Map Act and the San Francisco Subdivision Codes and Regulations
• Develop changes to existing San Francisco codes, procedures and ordinances to assure adherence to the California Map Act
• Assist the Bureau Manager in making revisions to programs, objectives and goals.
• Develop, interpret and coordinate surveying and map processing policy and assign the appropriate survey party.
• Check field surveys or map work in progress and direct subordinates when necessary
• Perform surveying or map processing operations when necessary to assist staff in difficult situations.
• Manage the budget for survey parties and map processing to ensure adequate staffing, supplies, and equipment.
• Collect and review survey notes or map applications for completeness and accuracy.
• Supervise the maintenance of official records, maps, and survey reports and the preparation of related reports.
• Coordinate with other city agencies on requests for service, time schedules, and cost estimates, and perform other professional duties which require a licensed land surveyor.
• Manage horizontal and vertical control systems which may include the use of a Global Positioning System (GPS) monument/documentation program.
• Make regular contact with the public, other departments, contractors, private surveyors, and outside organizations relative to municipal mapping and survey practices and procedures.
• Approve subdivision maps, and recommend referral of same to the Board of Supervisors
• Routinely represent the department at public hearings and before the Board of Supervisors and various commissions
• Drive a departmental vehicle to work sites and meetings when necessary.