Lead Surveyor Ma'aden Aluminium Company (MAC)

Key Accountabilities
1. Lead all mine survey activities, ensuring survey networks, RTK bases, UAV platforms, and equipment are operational and maintained within approved budgets.
2. Deliver accurate and timely pit mark ups to support drilling, charging, blasting, excavation, and dump development in accordance with SOW technical specifications.
3. Conduct as built surveys to validate contractor progress, volume movements, bench compliance, and pit advancement.
4. Produce and update high accuracy topographic surfaces (DTMs) for production reporting, reconciliation, forecasting, and planning.
5. Manage QA/QC of all survey data, ensuring reliability, repeatability, proper calibration, and audit ready datasets.
6. Collaborate with Mine Engineering and Geology teams to support ore control boundaries, grade control, dig lines, and stockpile measurements.
7. Lead UAV (drone) survey programs, including photogrammetric mapping for pit compliance, dump geometry, and surface change analysis.
8. Provide technical leadership, task assignment, and competency development for surveyors and technicians.
9. Maintain strict adherence to safety procedures, especially when operating near pit edges, equipment zones, or blast areas.
10. Support SOW driven reporting cycles and contractor performance evaluations with accurate spatial data.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Competencies
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor s Degree in Surveying, Geomatics, Mining Engineering, or related field; professional surveying accreditation preferred.
Minimum Experience: 10+ years experience in open pit mine surveying, including supervisory roles, UAV operations, and advanced survey systems.
Ma aden High Performance Competencies: Safety Leadership, Execution Excellence, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Continuous Improvement
Skills: GPS/RTK surveying, Total Station, UAV/photogrammetry, mine design mark up, reconciliation, QA/QC, Surpac/Vulcan/MineSight proficiency.