Manager, Surveying

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To manage and deliver a specialised survey service as the legally appointed competent person in charge of surveying, mapping and mine plans for the mine in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act.
- Independent auditor of tonnage produced and reflected as a monthly Mine Call Factor.
- Managing project delivery in such a manner as to ensure customer satisfactions.
- Implement skills and specific activities to ensure optimum performance according to operational requirements, organisational objectives and sound mining practices.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- N Dip: Mine Surveying (Essential/Minimum or)
- Certificate Mine Valuation COM (Essential/Minimum and)
- Certificate Advanced Mine Surveying (Essential/Minimum)
- Mine Surveyors Gov Cert of Comp (Essential/Minimum)
- Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
- B Tech Surveying (Recommended/Desirable or)
- NH Dip: Mine Surveying (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
8 years with relevant 5 years Operational Mine Surveying experience of which at least 3 years Management experience (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- MHS Act Regulation 17.2 (Chief Surveyor) (Essential/Minimum)
- SA Geomatics Council: Prof Mine Surveyor (Essential/Minimum or)
- SA Council for Prof & Technical Surveyor (Essential/Minimum or)
- Institute of Mine Surveyors of SA (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Best Practice and Knowledge Management**
- Facilitate knowledge sharing to ensure accurate and effective information flow
- Research best practice within industry and provide relevant recommendations
- Advising and commissioning of relevant industry accepted survey standards and relevant technology at Business Units (BU’s)
- Ensure state of the art techniques and software, XPAC, Minex, ArcGIS, MicroStation, Model maker, scanning and aerial survey software used at BU’s
- Entrenchment of underground and/or opencast quality control systems
- Concurrent rehabilitation management of opencast and final landform designs

**Business Process and Development**
- Supply technical inputs for development of business unit mine planning and related strategies
- Develop systems to ensure legal compliance within discipline
- Communicate impact of risks relating to business strategy
- Assist with the execution of the functional strategy
- Support the development of mining maintenance related planning and risk management systems
- Assist with the development of systems to ensure legal compliance within the discipline
- Supply technical inputs that will assist in determining the impact of risks, relating to the business strategy

**Compliance, Governance and Assurance**
- Ensure full compliance with the requirements of Chapter 17 of the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) with regards to surveying, mapping and mine plans and any other relevant regulations and acts
- Ensure all surveying related services are delivered in accordance with policies, systems and procedures that are legally compliant and adhere to sound corporate governance principles
- Monitor relevant risk
- Ensure valid permissions, from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), i.e. to undermine surface infrastructure etc. is in place for entire mining right area

**Customer and Client Relationship Management**
- Render a professional internal customer service for the entire mine and in particular to the mining and Mineral Resources Management (MRM) sections
- Support with identification and investigation of problems and assist in development of solutions
- Maintain survey control networks on relevant mine project sites

**Effective People Management**
- Promote teamwork and provide support and manage performance
- Provide inputs for efficient development, career path and deployment of staff
- Take action to correct subordinates' performance deviations
- Mentor coach and develop subordinates

**Financial Management**
- Develop and manage capital and operating budget for Survey function aligned to departmental targets
- Manage and ensure funds are optimally utilised within budget
- Manage expenses and assets

**Functional Excellence**
- Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
- Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy

**Mine Survey Support**
- Ensure Business Unit (BU) compliance with regards to all survey related Acts MHSA, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA), Mining Titles Registration Act (MTRA) and National Water Act (NWA)
- Support BU MRM and line with discipline related technical issues and operational planning requirements
- Establish and maintain a surveying control network across the entire mine (Surface and/or