Where a surveying technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a surveying technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Surveying technicians carry out technical surveying tasks. They assist surveyors, architects or engineers in surveying related technical tasks such as mapping land, creating construction drawings and operating precise measuring equipment.
Also known as engineering technician, mapping technician, land survey technician, surveyor, survey technician, geomatics technician, archaeological field technician, survey party chief, survey CAD technician, instrument woman, agricultural global positioning system mapper, instrument man.
Technicians and associate professionals 46 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: hydrographic surveyor, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A surveying technician needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- adjust surveying equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- compare survey computations information skills
- calibrate precision instrument working with machinery and specialised equipment
- geomatics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- prepare surveying report information skills
- survey techniques natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- geodesy natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- perform surveying calculations information skills
- process collected survey data information skills
- surveying methods engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a surveying technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hydrographic surveyor 67% covered · difficulty 38.4
- hydrographic surveying technician 66% covered · difficulty 40
- geographic information systems specialist 55% covered · difficulty 50.2
- cartographer 48% covered · difficulty 58.2
- land planner 48% covered · difficulty 57.4
- civil engineer 47% covered · difficulty 59.1
- soil surveying technician 44% covered · difficulty 60.5
- remote sensing technician 42% covered · difficulty 63.1
- geological engineer 36% covered · difficulty 67.6
- cadastral technician 32% covered · difficulty 69.9
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Surveying technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a surveying technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.