Hey Boss,
I found a bunch of available survey jobs in LinkedIn by searching for "total station", but this is by far the most interesting bit: from the Survey Manager position ad for the new SR520 floating bridge:
"Familiarity with surveying equipment such as the Leica TDM5000 and TDM5005 total station instruments, or similar instruments that have separate horizontal and vertical drives that allow the reference plane to be floating, moving, and rotating as long as the surface itself is not bending or flexing within the area defined by toe control orientation. "
I saw a TPS2000? (on its way to an aerospace firm) at the Leica dealer a while back, and they mentioned the extra-axis part of things, and something about using a Helmert resection with a bunch of redundant targets to establish a reference plane that could vary from the usual perpendicular-to-the-plumb orientation. It made my brain tilt. Sounds like the junction of heavy civil, metrology, and shipbuilding. Maybe I should apply since there can't be very many people even interested in such a thing! Establish a control network & define procedures for the floating bridge construction, sounds like about as much fun as a surveyor could have, if a surveyor liked that kind of surveying. The rest of the job is probably way over my head. Supervise 10 crews in 4 locations. That's a lot of steaks and beer. But if that's you, apply online at www.Kiewit.com - Job ID #907495. And let me know when you need an I-man.
take that project. sounds fascinating!