Lead Surveyor, Ii

**Responsibility:
**Focus Area**:
Ensuring accurate and reliable survey data to support various aspects of mining operations, process the volume calculations of reportable material movements and provide essential survey control for a variety of mining and total site needs, and detailed surveys of the mine workings.

**Operational / Functional**:
1. Process and analyze survey data to generate accurate topographical maps, volume calculations, and other relevant information for mine planning, design, and decision-making.
2. Prepare detailed survey reports and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders, including mining engineers, geologists, and project manager.
3. Work closely with mining engineers, geologists, and other departments to integrate survey data into mine planning, design, and production processes.
4. Collaborate with environmental and safety teams to ensure that surveying activities comply with regulatory requirements.
5. Establish and maintain quality control measures for survey data, ensuring precision and reliability in all surveying activities.
6. Analyze work processes and implement actions to improve own technical performance.
7. Stay updated on emerging surveying technologies and assess their applicability to improve mining survey processes.
8. Sound knowledge of company standards, procedures and methods.

**Leadership**:
1. Provide strong leadership to the survey team, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and adherence to safety standards.
2. Understand, support and live the Ma'aden vision, values and goals.
3. Takes accountability for personal improvement, personal development, skills development in specialist area.
4. Continuously strives to improve personal mastery and professional growth.
5. Establish professional standards for work, project plans and organization to ensure service provision and effective individual contribution.
7. Conduct analysis to formulate recommendations and design solutions and implement them effectively.
8. Progress monitoring, reporting and corrective action.
9. Statutory compliance and professional practices.
10. Facilitating transformation and change in respect to procedures.
11. General know-how to develop innovative technical solutions.

**Relationships**:
1. Build constructive working relationships.
2. Supports peers/team members to achieve team objectives through knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration with colleagues and other teams.
3. Maintain Manager and peer relationships marked by professional communication, behaviors and actions that results in high levels of credibility, trust and respect throughout the business unit or function.
4. Puts forward new ideas, thinking and approaches adopted and supported by the business.
5. Build credibility and constructive working relationships with multi-disciplinary project teams.
6. Create and maintain well developed internal network.

**Safety**:

- Safety advocate - anywhere and everywhere.
- Advanced awareness and understanding of HSE rules and procedures.
- Concern for own wellbeing and that of others.
- Ability to pro-actively identify safety hazards and act accordingly.

**Qualification**:

- Bachelor’s degree in surveying, Geomatics, or related field. Advanced degree is a plus.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in surveying, with a focus on open-pit mining operations.
- Proficient in the use of surveying instruments, GPS, and advanced surveying software.
- In-depth knowledge of open-pit mining processes, safety standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Problem-solving mindset and ability to make informed decisions in a dynamic mining environment.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to lead and inspire a team.
- Analysis and modelling of engineering components.
- Able to independently manage own work planning and delivery according to targets.
- Risk Management/Analysis.
- Sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to cope with pressures and setbacks.
- Ability to adapt and respond to change.
- Good persuading and influencing skills.
- General working knowledge of engineering design.