diff --git a/parsers/survex.py b/parsers/survex.py
index 7cd430d..46f4e7b 100644
--- a/parsers/survex.py
+++ b/parsers/survex.py
@@ -275,11 +275,12 @@ class LoadingSurvex:
     
     # this extensive list of expo roles are now (after 24/2/2025) just comments and not legal survex code.
     # all now irrelevant as Olly restricted the list and survex now notices this.
-    # but troggle still complains, and can fail to recognise a person, if the role is not in this list:
+    # but troggle still complains, and can fail to recognise a person, if the role is not in this list.
+    # 'position' added to match survex 1.4.17 in 2025
     roles = "(assistant|bitch|bodger|bolt|bolter|bolting|book|clino|comp|compass|consultant|disto|distox|distox2|"
     roles += "dog|dogsbody|drawing|drill|gps|helper|inst|instr|instrument|length|monkey|nagging|nail|"
     roles += "nail_polish|nail_polish_bitch|nail_polish_monkey|nail_varnish|nail_varnish_bitch|note|notebook|"
-    roles += "paint|photo|pic|pictures|point|polish|powerdrill|rig|rigger|rigging|SAP|shoot|sketch|slacker|explorer|"
+    roles += "paint|photo|pic|pictures|point|polish|position|powerdrill|rig|rigger|rigging|SAP|shoot|sketch|slacker|explorer|"
     roles += "something|station|surface|tape|topodroid|unknown|useless|varnish|waiting_patiently)"
     
     #rx_teammem = re.compile(r"(?i)" + roles + r"?(?:es|s)?\s+(.*)$") no longer legal survex ordering