mine surveyor
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Curriculum vitae
Contact Details
Name: Grabwell Fundira
Address: *** ***** ****** *******, **********,Harare,Zimbabwe
Mobile: +263*********, +263*********
Email: act8wr@r.postjobfree.com
Driver’s licence: valid clean class 4
Career Objective
To continually develop my survey career and maximise the use of modern high-tech survey equipment and skills, to become a highly proficient surveyor to suit end users, and provide them with timely accurate information.
Major Achievement
- Team member (Civil & Earthworks Surveyor) during construction of Tailings Storage
Facility (Earth dam) with a lateral length of 2,000m and some sections as high as 15m.
- Team member (Civil & Earthworks Surveyor) during construction of two Tailings Storage Facilities, with a total length of 6 kilometres.
- Set out and controlled foundation earthworks for the 12 million tonne/ annum Copper
Processing plant.
- Set out and controlled civil earthworks Acid plant construction.
- Have done heavy civil earthworks for the construction of the largest copper smelter in Africa- Kansanshi Mine, Solwezi, Zambia
- Have done Main Haulage survey at Konkola Underground Mine 1 shaft,Chililabombwe,Zambia
- Have done Survey at Nchanga Mine, Fitwaola Open Pit,Chingola,Zambia
Employment History
Employer Name: Lintmar Mining Co. Pvt Ltd
Start Date: 24th August 2015
End Date: Ongoing
Current Position/Title: Site Manager-Trojan Mine, Bindura, Zimbabwe
Responsibilities/Achievements:
Mineral recovery from waste dump head of processing
Co-ordinating site activities
Ensuring that processing material is compliant with the required grade
Ensuring that all activities on site are compliant with the governing mine safety regulations
Contract management with various clients
Ascertaining data processing and information handling is done to the satisfaction of stakeholders
Reporting to directors daily performance and updates
Supervising and ascertaining production data is processed efficiently
Employer Name: Surtec International-c/o Kansanshi Mine Projects
Start Date: 6th August 2010
End Date: 15th September 2014
Current Position/Title: Civil & Earthworks Surveyor
Responsibilities/Achievements:
● Marking road centrelines
● Marking road cumbers and slopes
● Marking road curves
● Marking road bell mouth at intersections
● Marking road drainage excavation lines
●Carrying out survey work for earthworks foundations for large plant structures
●Team Leader for a crew of 2
●Staking out tailings embankment limit
●Pick-ups of excavations of borrow pit
●Staking out central decant limit and profile lines
●Volumetric calculations of excavations & dumps
●General construction surveys
●Monthly reporting to Project Manager
●The above mentioned jobs are carried out using the Trimble GPS Equipment
●Marking pipeline routes
●Marking excavations limits
●Staking out rock fill and late rite fill levels
●Stock pile surveys to reconcile materials quantities
●Checking civil engineering works such as bolts and centres alignment and levels
●Checking pedestals positions as well as levels
●Marking steel frame beams and structural positions
●Checking and levelling bolts for settlement monitoring
Employer Name: Konkola Copper Mines-Konkola Mine 1Shaft section
Start Date 15th July 2008
End Date 14th July 2010
Current Position/Title: Underground Senior Sectional Surveyor
Responsibilities/Achievements
●Team Leader for a crew of 4
●Installing lines and side grades in main levels
●Creating mining layouts using microstation software
●Setting out and marking points for boreholes
●Volumetric calculations of stocks and excavations
●Model development of mined out areas
●Conducting monthly survey measurements of underground excavations
●Compilation of contractors’ monthly reports
●Monthly reporting to Chief Surveyor
Employer Name / JES Mining Zambia Limited-Nchanga Mine-Fitwaola Open Pit
Start Date / 21st June 2006
End Date / 28th January 2008
Position/Title: Open Pit Surveyor
Responsibilities/Achievements:
●Marking Pit outline using GPS (SOKKIA-2700IS)
●Setting out drill holes for geology and blasting
●Topographical surveys prior to commencement of mining
●Bench and ramp grade controls
●Staking out ore body limits and extent
●Pickups of large ore stockpiles
●Pit updates and pick-ups to give daily production mined quantities for payments
●Monthly volumetric calculations using SURPAC
●Production of plans for mined out areas as well as short term planned concepts
●Reporting to Planning Manager
Employer Name / Madhatter Mining Co., Gweru, Zimbabwe-Valley Mine, Rhodesdale Mine
Start Date / 1st December 2001
End Date / 20th June 2006
Position/Title /: Open Pit Surveyor
Responsibilities/Achievements:
● Marking Pit outline using Total Station (Sokkia 310 )
●Setting out drill holes for geology and blasting
●Topographical surveys prior to commencement of mining
●Staking out chrome ore pods outline
●Pickups chrome ore stockpiles
●Volumetric calculations of materials mined out of pit
●Monthly reports produced for Mine Planner
●Surpac elementary pit designs
●Production of plans for mined out areas.
●Various SURPAC software computations
Education/Qualifications
Institution: University of Cape Town
City/Country: Cape Town, South Africa
Qualifications: Project Management Foundations
Completed: June 2014
Institution: Zimbabwe School of Mines
City/Country: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Qualifications: National Diploma in Mine Surveying
Completed: December 2001
Institution: Victoria High School
City/Country: Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Qualifications: 2 subjects passed in G.C.E Advanced Level Science Cambridge Examinations
Completed: November 1994
Institution: Victoria High School
City/Country: Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Qualifications: 9 subjects passed in G.C.E Ordinary Level Cambridge Examinations
Completed: November 1992
Skill Summary
Computer Skills: Surpac, Windows 8, Internet, MS Word, Excel
Interests:
Watching football, swimming
Referees
Name: Marious van DerMerwe
Company: First Quantum Minerals Ltd
Position: Construction Manager
Contact Telephone: +260*********
Contact Email: act8wr@r.postjobfree.com
Name: John McTaggart
Company: Lintmar Mining CO
Position: Managing Director
Contact Telephone: +263*********
Contact Email: act8wr@r.postjobfree.com
Name: Victor Kowa
Company: Konkola Copper Mines,1 Shaft
Position: Chief Surveyor
Contact Telephone: +260*********
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