Also called: Structural Monitoring Surveyor, Automated Monitoring Technician
Sets up robotic instruments that watch buildings, dams, tunnels and rail lines for movements smaller than a coin’s thickness.
Next to a deep subway dig, you bolt survey prisms onto old buildings and install a robotic total station that measures them every hour. When an alert says one wall moved 3 millimeters overnight, you check the data and call the engineers.
Estimated; specialty monitoring firms.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 3 years after high school. Associate or bachelor's in surveying or geomatics.
Ways in: 2-year college, 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Surveying / Geomatics, Civil Engineering Technology.
Growing faster than average. Big tunnel, dam and transit projects require continuous monitoring.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Instruments already run themselves; people install them, check bad data and judge real alarms.
Classes: Geometry, Trigonometry, Computer science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-3031.
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