Description
Soil surveying technicians analyse soil by carrying out technical surveying tasks, using soil surveying techniques. They focus on the process of classifying soil types and other soil properties. Soil surveying technicians operate surveying equipment and utilise programs to retrieve and interpret relevant data, and perform computations as required.
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Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
apply safety procedures in laboratoryprepare surveying reportperform laboratory testscollect samplesensure compliance with safety legislationgather experimental datacollect samples for analysisconduct field workwrite work-related reportsconduct soil sample testsadjust surveying equipmentoperate surveying instrumentsrecord survey datamonitor geotechnical structuresadvise on nature conservationconduct land surveysperform scientific research