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Looking for a Career in Surveying? We want to talk to you!

Red Tail Surveying, Inc., based in Taos, NM is hiring for multiple work positions!

We are seeking dedicated team members for long-term career positions for survey field work, title research, CAD drafting, GIS development, project supervision, file management, and office administration. Experience with computers, GPS, and business operations are a plus. Focused, organized, problem-solving, and common sense brains are good too! We are willing to train persons with an excited interest in being a long term team member. All positions are office-based. We offer good pay, a possible flexible work schedule, an empowering work environment, and the opportunity for rural living in a growing mountain town.

Email a letter of interest and a resume to caroline@redtailsurvey.com. Please do not call the office.

Sorry, these are not satellite/home-office based jobs. We require seeing your smiling face.

To Make a Survey Inquiry- Use our contact form!

Hello! To get a prompt estimate for your survey needs, please go to our Contact form on this site (click Contact, above), and please include the following information in the Your Message section:
1) The exact purpose of the survey: examples include “I’m selling the property, and the buyer or title company wants the old survey updated for new improvements” (=Improvement Location Report); “This property has never been surveyed, or survey is old or inaccurate” (=Boundary Survey), “We want to split this property into separate tracts” (Land Division and/or Lot Split Survey), “We want to split our property and transfer lots to our kids” (=Family Transfer Survey), “We are about to build on our property and need a terrain map for the builder/architect” (=Topographic Survey), “We need to know where our property corners are” or “we are building a fence and need the boundary line staked” (= Find and Flag, Points on Line, etc), “We need Aerial Mapping”, etc etc etc. Survey costs vary greatly depending on what the job scope is- from a few hundred dollars to thousands- so please provide as many details as you can!
2) the exact location of the property. We will need to be able to look at the property in Google Earth and other maps to be able to give you an estimate. Give street addresses if available, area name with directions and/or google earth placemarks, deed references, and county tax owner numbers are all ways we can locate your property.
3) Size of the property, in acres, and terrain type (forested? sagebrush? mountain? valley land? etc)
4) your email address and phone number. We don’t use these for any purpose except to contact you for quote or information.
You may also send your information, google earth kmz, etc to redtail(at)redtailsurvey.com (replace the “at” with “@”
Thanks so much!
Red Tail Team

The Heights We Will Go To

It just came to my attention that we hadn’t yet posted pictures from when we were surveying on top of Kachina Peak for the new lift at Taos Ski Valley. This is fieldwork that was done in the middle of winter on top of one of New Mexico’s highest peaks! photo 5

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Contacting Us By Email

It has come to our attention that our Contact form isn’t always loading properly in all browsers. We are working on this technical website issue; meanwhile, if you have problems with the contact form, you may email us directly at redtail (at) redtailsurvey.com. Replace the “at” with the usual @ symbol; we’re trying to avoid spambots here.
You may also call or fax us at (575) 758.7441, or drop by the office at 301A Hinde St, Taos, NM.