Survey Technician – Barrick Mining
Responsibilities:
- Ensure safe work practices, i.e., attending compulsory safety courses and meetings, use of required PPE, incident/accident reporting, and ensuring total adherence to all Safety, Occupational Health, and Environmental Policies, as well as other relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines.
- Development pickups and pickup processing
- Ensure all fired rounds are correctly recorded to monitor the development trend of every active mining heading.
- Able to do DGPS Base setup system
- Compiling the information in a system that it can be retrieved and used
- Ensure all survey station reports and mine stakeout plans are filed correctly.
- Ensure all Survey stations are positioned and placed correctly as directed by the Mine Surveyor
- Regular stock-taking of survey consumables to ensure there is at least the minimum required always kept in the survey store.
- Installation of Grade pins
- Installation of lasers & Stations
- Mark-up of Holes EH, PH
- Face mark-ups
- Setup of instrument below station u/g
- Assists the Mine Surveyor in any task required for the maintenance of Survey control”
- Numbering batteries of all electronic equipment and ensuring they are charged correctly, keeping a record of the mandatory discharging process of all such batteries.
- Daily vehicle cleaning checks and timely reporting of any defects. Liaise with the Maintenance Department when reporting defects at regular service intervals.
- Borehole survey for production holes(downhole and up hole.)
Qualification Requirements:
- A Survey Technician’s Certificate.
- Technician certificate in any of the survey-related fields of Geomatics, cartography, Civil engineering, and mining survey, coupled with experience of working as a survey assistant in an underground mining environment.
Experience and Skills Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years working on underground mining surveying
- Sufficient on-the-job training and working experience through other documented roles in underground mining surveying that are considered acceptable by company authorities
- Excellent communication in English, both writing and verbal
- Knowledge of MS Office suite of programs is beneficial Sound practical experience in any conventional surveying method
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