Surveyor Technician at Anglo American

Job Description:

• The incumbent also bares the responsibility of timeous and accurate capturing and recording of technical data and monthly production results pertaining to underground excavations and resource management that would assist in directing the mine design.

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Perform tasks in accordance with and adherence to the provisions of the MHSA as well as Mine Standards.
• Identify record and report unsafe and substandard conditions.
• Exercise special care to avoid personal injury and injury to other persons as well as damage to property whilst transporting equipment and performing daily tasks.
• Communicate all related Safety information to team.
• Support mine safety programmes (e.g. "Zero Tolerance Campaign").
• Ensuring that team members are directed to the correct locations/ working places
• Obtain permission to enter working place.
• Physical installation of survey stations and direction lines.
• Offsetting of excavations and accurate recording of data.
• Perform tasks within the accuracy limits as required in terms of the Chapter 17 in terms of MHSA.
• Represent captured data within the accuracy limits, as specified by Chapter 17 in terms of MHSA.
• Obtain permission to enter working places.
• Capturing and processing of field data (including electronic).
• Contract measuring, organising and calculations.
• Report anomalies (e.g. off-line development, off reef mining).
• Capture geological markers and structures.
• Mapping of Rock Engineering special instructions pillars.
• Represent excavations on plans.
• Assist with the issuing of mining instructions.
• Plotting and representation on plan of fieldwork in accordance with legal and survey code of practice provisions.
• Familiarization with electronic draughting – MicroStation/ CADS mine and Deswik.
• Perform specialised survey as and when required Scanning, Check surveys and Engineering surveys.
• This role is at a band 8 level reporting to the Senior Surveyor.

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 with minimum 50% in Maths and science
• Elementary Survey, Basic Sampling certificate
• Advantageous: National Diploma in Mine Survey or mineral resource management or chamber of mines advance survey
• IMPORTANT: applications without qualification related attachments will not be considered.

Experience, knowledge and Skills

• Minimum 1-year departmental experience
• Computer literacy for role