Surface Surveyor - North West at Tharisa

Role Context

Compliance, Risk and Safety

• Conduct daily safety meetings with subordinates and risk assessments prior to any survey work being conducted, to identify and report any substandard conditions.
• Identify and report on unauthorised usage of surface areas, to ensure adherence to all mine standards procedures and legal requirements.

Operational Efficiencies

• Import and export electronic information from other systems to resolve internal data requests in the required format.
• Stay abreast with latest technological developments to identify and recommend any new technology to optimise mine surveying operations.

Resource Management

• Provide input into required changes in resources (financial or non-financial) to enable the achievement of team and/or own objectives.
• Determine resource needs of the team and/or own area of work to achieve business outcomes.
• Request and allocate required assets and/or resources for the fulfilment of work objectives to guarantee quality outputs.
• Monitor the use of assets and resources within the team and own area of responsibility, to ensure assets and resources are consistently and appropriately utilised and managed.
• Provide staff with day-to-day direction and tasks aligned with Departmental procedures, to enable the usage of less resources more efficiently.
• Track the usage and recording of survey assets by relevant personnel, ensuring the effective maintenance of the Survey Asset Register.
• Inspect and maintain surveying instruments and technology, outsourcing expert maintenance support where required, to maintain quality surveying equipment.  

Stakeholder Relations

• Communicate with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of speciality. Liaise across the relevant Departments by engaging with the appropriate stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders remain abreast of Departmental objectives, any potential derailers are appropriately managed and duplication of work is avoided.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.

Surveying

• Use survey data collected by the UAS Surveyor as input into the design of drill patterns.
• Perform exploration surveys on all exploration boreholes, rehabilitation work, surface accidents in the pit to check the representation of these match actual plans.
• Provide subject matter expertise during Land Management Programs to address any survey issues identified according to the survey designs.
• Update the water volumes in the pit, calculating the volume of pools of water, to support production planning.
• Monitor the construction of new surface structures to ensure no sterilisation of mineral reserves occurs, in an effort to prevent risk to other mining operations.
• Perform surveys at the Run of mine (ROM) pad and Concentrator processing plant, using Total Station equipment, to determine the volume of the stockpile quantity.
• Perform in-pit surveys to establish whether surface activities are accurately represented on mining plans.
• Review and sign-off project milestones and deliverables, providing subject matter expert inputs where applicable, to ensure surface prescribed plans are accurately updated as per regulations.
• Perform surveys at tailing storage facilities to confirm volumes, design compliance and measure to update freeboard reports, ensuring that the surface prescribed plans are accurately updated as per regulations.
• Conduct, weekly and monthly aerial surveys and volume measurements, using surveying instruments and technologies, to collect relevant data within the Tharisa Surface Right area.
• Arrange for ground control points to be installed on planned aerial survey areas, ensuring elevation is accurate.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Chamber of Mines Advanced Certificate in Surveying (NQF6) or National Diploma (NQF6) in Surveying
• Driving Licence

Job specific experience:

• Minimum of between three to five (3-5) years relevant experience
• Experience using survey instruments, including GPS and Total Station
• Experience using CAD/Model Maker/Deswik related software is advantageous