Model Maker Land Surveyor

EXPERTISE

•Construction Management: Supervising foremen and survey assistants and planning project works with the site agent. Ensuring that plant and human resources are adequate as per programme of works, and procurement of needed resources. Health, safety and quality management. Attending progress meetings, raising technical queries, and issuing drawings.

•Earthworks: Setting out positions of roads, small earth dams, under drainage pipes, manholes, slopes (batters), trenches, and terraces. Cut and fill quantities for certification. As built surveys of all earthworks, survey reports for as builts, and drawing survey plans.

•Civil Works (Concrete): Setting out plinths, holding down bolts, manholes, tunnels, spillway, pump station, small earth dams, foundations, culverts, and band walls. Pre-pour and post-pour. As built survey reports.

•Mechanical and Steel Structures: Setting out column centrelines, crane rails, turbines, lift shaft, pumps, and crane girders. Placing level packers on plinths for columns. Aligning and checking levels for girders and crane rails. Verticality surveys for columns and lift shaft. As built surveys and survey reports for handing over.

•Surveying: Setting out, establishment of control points, site calibration, drafting with CAD software, calculations of setting out points, survey reports, topographical surveys, and as built surveys.

•Consultancy: Assisting and advising civil/ structural engineers on survey related issues. Advising the site agent on design related queries and specifications for project planning purposes.

•Survey Instruments: GPS receiver (Leica 1200, 500 and 200), Trimble (5700 and 5800) and Topcon Total station (Leica TS02, TS06 and TS09, South, Nikon, Topcon and Sokkia) Levels (digital and dumpy levels).

•Administrative and Management: Supervision of junior surveyors and survey assistants, performance appraisals, resources coordination, project planning and implementation, budgeting, technical research.

•Computer Proficiency: Leica Geomatic Office, Trimble Geomatic Office, Surpac, Model Maker Systems, AutoCAD (2D), Road Maker Systems, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Doron Construction

Construction Manager/ Surveyor October 2018–Present

Projects: Amandelbult Mine Railway Siding, Tumela 15E Mine Raisebore, Mine Waste Kareer and East Storm Water Dam

Smindlo Surveys and Civils

Engineering Surveyor September 2014–August 2018

Projects: Medupi Power Station Steam Turbine Hall Steel Structures, Kusile Power Station WFGD (wet flue gas desulphurisation) Hall Structures

Khulani Quality Construction

Senior Surveyor June 2013–August 2014

Projects: Kusile Power Station Bulk Earthworks and Civils

Murray and Roberts Botswana Construction

Construction Surveyor May 2012–April 2013

Projects: Jwaneng Diamond Mine (Botswana) Slimes Dam 7 Expansion

Afrogeodata Surveys Botswana

Project Engineering Surveyor February 2010–May 2012

Projects: Jwaneng Mine Infrastructure Cut 8 Expansion Project

Young, Stuart & Associates Inc. (South Africa)

Graduate Surveyor April 2009–January 2010

Department of Surveyor General Zimbabwe

Land Surveyor January 2004–April 2009

Projects: International Boundary Reaffirmation Surveys

Experience

•Setting out profiles and levels for bulk earthworks on platforms and terraces

•Setting out culverts, bridges, and road profiles at 20m chainage intervals

•Computation of setting out data and coordinates

•Site survey control calibration

•Measurement of quantities (volumes and area) for all works done

•Producing maps and drawings of lay down areas showing quantities for planning purposes

•Survey of natural ground levels on the whole site before any works are done

•Setting out platforms, column centrelines, casting plates centres and levels for beams, staircases and pipe racks

•Placing packers for column base plates, platforms and staircases

•Extension of control points and benchmarks on site

•Generating survey reports on the quality of work and making recommendations on areas which need to be corrected

•Topographical surveys and producing drawings for design purposes

•Cadastral surveys for title registration, beacon relocation surveys, seismic surveys

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

•Registered Geomatic Professional (Engineering Surveying) with South African Geomatic Council (SAGC)—GPr ES 1482

•Associate Member of South African Institute of Civil Engineers (SAICE)

EDUCATION

University of Zimbabwe

BSc Honours Degree in Surveying 1999–2003

Moleli High, Zimbabwe

Cambridge Advanced and Ordinary Level Certificates 1993–1998

PERSONAL

Nationality: Zimbabwean

Date of birth: 9 November 1978

Driver’s licence: Light vehicle licence (Class 4 in Zimbabwe, Code B equivalent in South Africa)

REFERENCES

Mr Tawanda Benhura

Project Manager and Engineering Surveyor

Doron Construction

Box 11318, Riverwalk, Potchefstroom, RSA

Cell: +27-79-496-****

Email: *******@*****.**.**

Mr Alfa Mutambisi

Chief Surveyor

Alno Engineering Survey Consultants

Pretoria

Cell: +27-73-534-****

Email: **********@*****.**.**

Mr Dereck Dube

Senior Surveyor

GEL Survey Solutions, RSA

Cell: +27-83-232-****

Email: **********@*****.**.**

Mr Ishmael Radebe

Engineer

Tubular Technical Construction South Africa

Cell: +27-82-079-****

105 Tuscan Village Bronkhorstspruit, Tshwane

************@*****.**.**

+277********; +277********

TEVERAI

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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SURVEYOR

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