Senior Surveyor

With over 60 years of experience, Macmahon is a mining contractor with a unique capability of offering its clients surface, underground and mining support services.

Macmahon has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Mine Surveyor to support Macmahon’s QLD mining contracts. Reporting to the Civil East Area Manager, this position will be based in the Brisbane office and suit a Senior Surveyor who enjoys being hands-on in the field with very regular travel to sites.

The role

• Primary accountability is to provide survey set out, pickup, reconciliation and reporting to serve Macmahon’s mining contracts
• Effective collaboration with client survey teams and production crews
• Weekly and monthly survey volumes/calculations for topsoil removal, waste excavation, mining and rehandle quantities
• Stake out of excavation, dump limits and maintenance of machine guidance system
• Ensure survey of coal interfaces is correctly picked up to ensure strip reconciliations are reliable and meaningful
• In conjunction with the Senior Geologist, provision of monthly reconciliations
• Daily updates of waste and movements 
• Comply with the site systems of progress recording, site diaries and photographic recording
• Provision of actual to design compliance plans
• Provision of strip/seam reconciliations and calculation of contract KPI’s
• Calculation of ROM Factor (density) and interim weekly truck load volumes (including rise/run metrics)
• Dedication to project improvement initiatives

Qualifications and attributes 

• Bachelor of Surveying or similar
• 5+ years mining industry experience 
• Experience in utilising and maintaining survey hardware (ie GPS, Total Station and scanner technology)
• Experience in 3D CAD software such as Vulcan and Deswik essential
• Excellent data management control and post-processing of pick up data
• Ability to clearly set out and articulate survey calculations and adjustments
• Good analytical and problem solving ability
• Demonstrated reporting capabilities  
• Experience in complying with the Statutory Mining and HSEQ requirements
• Certificate of Competency for Frontline Operational Supervisor of OHS and Mine Environment from DEMR
• Experience in managing and coordinating teams
• Experience in setting tasks, resources and schedules to meet work plan

Macmahon benefits

• Competitive salary + rewards
• Career development pathways
• Employee discounts; groceries, petrol, fashion, entertainment + more
• Award winning lifestyle, financial & mental health support 
• Salary sacrifice options for a car with a novated lease
• Relocation and Visa assistance may be offered to suitable candidates

Macmahon is a diversified contractor with leading capabilities in surface and underground mining, civil construction and resources engineering. Our end-to-end mining services encompass mine development and materials delivery, engineering, civil construction, on-site mining services, rehabilitation and site remediation. As an ASX-listed company, with headquarters in Perth, we work for major resource companies across various commodity sectors in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Macmahon offers our people the ability to work in diverse roles, in different locations and realise new opportunities within the Company over time. Macmahon is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages suitably qualified women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply. 

As part of the recruitment process for the role you may be required to complete a pre-employment medical, inclusive of a laboratory drug and alcohol screen and complete a criminal history and qualification checks. Additionally, you will have to provide proof of working rights in Australia i.e. copy of valid Australian passport, birth certificate, citizenship certificate or current visa grant notification.