Field Technician Tailings

We are seeking a motivated and safety-conscious Field Technician to join the Infrastructure Department. In this role, you will provide safe, accurate, and cost-effective field technical and survey support for Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) construction, monitoring, and related earthworks activities by delivering reliable survey measurements, field staking, construction guidance, and QA/QC assistance to ensure works are completed in accordance with design requirements, operational priorities, and safety standards.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Conduct daily field surveys for TSF construction, including measurements for dam raises, berms, slopes, crest and toe levels, drainage works, earthworks quantities, and construction progress.

• Perform survey set-out and construction control, establishing alignment, crest lines, toe lines, berms, drainage channels, and other design features, while installing and maintaining survey pegs, stakes, reference points, and benchmarks.

• Carry out as-built surveys and provide accurate field data on coordinates, elevations, quantities, alignment, and construction progress to the Tailings, Survey, Construction, and Engineering teams.

• Support field QA/QC activities with consultants, including verification of construction layers, lift thickness, elevations, slopes, alignment, and compliance with approved drawings and design requirements.

• Collaborate with consultants, supervisors, and Tailings Engineers during field inspections, test locations, verification activities, audits, and consultant-led inspections, and support the investigation of field conditions against approved designs.

• Identify and report deviations and unsafe or abnormal conditions, promptly notifying supervisors and supporting corrective actions where required to maintain construction quality and safety.

• Support TSF monitoring activities, including locating and checking instrumentation points, survey monuments, monitoring stations, piezometers, settlement markers, and seepage monitoring locations, while maintaining clear and accurate field records.

• Maintain survey equipment, field tools, and assigned vehicles in safe and serviceable condition, ensuring equipment is available and fit for daily field surveying and TSF construction activities.