Title:
Rodman / Chainman

Position Title

Rodman / Chainman
Mandatory Requirements:
* Secondary School Cert. / Cert. In Surveying certificate or degree in surveying or a related field will be an advantage.
* Minimum of ‎5 years experience as a surveyor 's assistant or in a related field
* Good knowledge of surveying and mapping techniques
* Middle East / Kuwait work experience is an advantage.
* Excellent communication skills.

Primary objective

• Responsible for providing support to surveyors in the field.


• Responsible for setting up and maintaining surveying equipment, measuring distances and angles and making boundaries.

Specific Accountabilities

• Preparing survey drawings, assisting in boundary calculations and helping draft legal descriptions.


• Assist in surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the earth's surface, underground, and underwater using electronic distance-measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.


• Assist in laying out grids and determine horizontal and vertical controls.


• Maintain equipment and vehicles used by surveying crews.


• Perform manual labor, such as cutting brush for lines, carrying stakes, rebar, and other heavy items, and stacking rods.


• Place and hold measuring tapes when electronic distance-measuring equipment is not used.


• Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.


• Provide assistance in the development of methods and procedures for conducting field surveys.


• Assist in record survey measurements and descriptive data using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.


• Assist in the search for section corners, property irons, and survey points.


• Assist in setting out and recovering stakes, marks, and other monumentation.


• Run rods for benches and cross-section elevations.


• Operate and manage land information computer systems, performing tasks such as storing data, making inquiries, and producing plots and reports.


• Read, understand, interpret, and analyse complex regulations, standards, and a wide variety of information related to planning and environmental issues, available in a wide variety of formats.


• Conduct field visits and inspections at construction sites and a wide variety of outdoor locations by safely navigating all types of terrain, including potentially hazardous sites, in all weather conditions.


• Safety - Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Uses appropriate safety equipment and follows established work safety policies, practices, and procedures.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Must possess a good understanding of surveying principles.


• Ability to understand and follow instructions.


• Ability to work with a variety of tools and equipment (GPS Total Station & Data Collector, Handheld GPS, Prism Sets, Adjustable range poles, Tripods, Digital Camera, Hammers, Shovel, Pick, Measurement Tapes, Metal Detectors, etc.).


• Ability to use computers and other technology.


• Must have visual aptitude and good communication skills (oral and written) and graphic when performing tasks.


• Good physical condition and able to work outdoors in all types of weather and terrain, in a variety of conditions and be comfortable with manual labor.


• Able to communicate clearly and accurately to relay data to surveyors and other personnel.