Sakias Philemon
Mine Surveyor
Madang,Madang
Summary
Qualified Surveyor with over 9 years of experience in Mine Surveying (underground & open pit), Engineering Surveying and Building Surveying. Seeking to provide diverse surveying and supervisory knowledge as a Geomatics Specialists at your company. Possess a Bachelor of Surveying from the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. Skills gained over the years include; gaining trust and respect off others through the building of relationships, translating difficult and complex ideas into everyday straight forward language, inspiring/motivating others through role modelling, giving clear and concise direction, thinking strategically, coordinating/organizing others, time management skills, coaching, training and teaching new skills and competencies, prioritizing tasks and assignments, delegating effectively to make best use of other’s skills, thinking ahead and contingency planning, prioritizing to best meet customer’s/organization’s needs, working effectively under pressure where both demanding and stringent deadlines are required, developing new skills and knowledge to remain leading edge, creative/imaginative thinking, effective communication skills, identifying and diagnosing a problem to get to the root cause, developing innovative, effective solutions to complex issues and problems, readily accept change, puts forward recommendations for making change, plan proactively to avoid downtimes and reworks, ensuring all work is done safety as per safe work processors, identifying risks and hazards and in cooperating into daily plans and flexible to work in any environment and with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Mine Surveyor
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
Tabubil, Western
12.2020 - Current
- Oversee daily survey controls for the West wall Cutback Project
- Provide UAV Photogrammetric survey of the West wall cutback, Engineering Waste Rock Dump Project and Dumps weekly
- Using UAV to survey stockpiles, mining faces and dumps for End of Month
- Doing Stockpile and Volume reconciliations
- Reporting End of Month Stockpile and Mine Pit Volumes
- Updating pit strings and models twice weekly
- Doing Compliance checks on ramps, floors and walls
- Provide Compliance reports on ramps, bench floors and walls for compliance to design
- Ensuring all surveying tasks executed in the field are compiled in a report and communicated to the relevant stakeholders
- Monitoring and Checking Shovel and Digger GPS to ensure equipment is working to design and standards
- Updating existing and install new UAV GCPs to ensure Drone Data is of high accuracy and standard
- Oversee the supervision and training of Trainee Graduates and Technical Staff
- Ensuring Survey work carried out in the field by Surveyors, Graduates and Technicans are of the accuracy required and are performed as per surveying procedures and as per company safe work procedures
- Improvising and making necessary adjustments in the field based on situations and operational requiements
- Setting up Trimble RTK base station and Rovers
- Utilizing PPK solution for Drone flights and Post-processing
- Utilizing RTK solution for Drone flights
- Underground Face markup including gradeline setout
- Underground Face asbuilt pickup
- Maintaining and Traversing Underground controls
- Liaise with Production superintendents, supervisors and mining engineers, geologists and Geotechnical Engineers to anticipate survey tasks in advance based on mining plans and designs
- Liaising with Mine Operations to ensure sites are prepped and ready before surveying controls can be placed on the ground
- Liaising with relevant stakeholders and departments to ensure their surveying requests are met on time and as per schedule
- Contribute to Company targets short term and long term by prioritizing and delivering tasks on a day to day basis
- Understanding the goals of the company and how I, as a surveyor contribute my part so that these goals are met collectively
- Setting individual and team monthly and yearly KPI’s and working towards achieving them
- Following all safe work procedures from fieldwork to post prccessing and storage of data
- Continuously strive to improve survey work process and knowledge
- Provide spatial data in the form of plans, contour maps, Digital terrain models, orthomosaics, dxf, csv, text files, point clouds etc
- Manage all survey tasks and resources for the West wall project site including vehicles, total stations, GPS and UAVs
- Supervise surveyors, graduates and chainmen for the westwall cutback and Engineering Waste Rock Dump Project
- Adhere and uphold safety and company rules and core values
- Maintain high level of health and safety awareness in all tasks executed
- Survey tasks include, Drill and Blast setouts, pickups and cleanup limits, D&B Misfire setouts, Toe checks, Ramp Alignment & Grade Check, Crest Profile, Ore Waste Boundaries, Geotech Monitoring Prisms and Geology mapping points, End of Month stockpile, dumps and mining faces survey and special projects setouts and pickup
- Maintain accurate survey controls for the West wall project site
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders to be productive and efficient
- Coordinate and contribute effectively to daily safety and production meetings.
Geospatial Specialist
LIWONGFON GEOMATICS SOLUTIONS
Madang, Madang
01.2020 - 11.2020
- Produce contours, from DEM models for design purposes
- Produced regression models of health data for Madang Provincial Health Authority
- Produced risk analysis of malaria cases using GIS for Madang Provincial Health Authority
- Produced Chloropath maps of outpatient, discharges and deaths cases for specific diseases for Madang Provincial Health Authority
- Produce grouping analysis on malaria cases to predict future cases based on mathematical models while taking into consideration man and natural factors
- Determining the least cost path of patients to access health services in madang province using GIS
- Doing hot & cold spot analysis of specific cases of diseases in Madang Province using GIS
- Running analysis to determine relationships between various features that affect a specific target feature
- Deriving information from satellite images to use for further analysis
- Producing maps and plans of study areas for analysis and study
- Using spatial analysis tools to analyse and interpret data inorder to come up with conclusions of the data set
- Data management of raw field data and preparing the data for entry into GIS for analysis and interpretation
- Mapping Covid 19 awareness program and the number of individuals tested in Madang Province using GIS
- Supervising the cadastral survey of bangaung sawmill project site
- Doing drone survey of karkar island water project using DJI Phantom RTK drone
Project Surveyor
Parohu Epc Engineers
Port Moresby, NCD
07.2019 - 12.2019
- Topographic survey of St
- Benedicts School of Nursing campus in Wewak
- Topographic, geodetic and as built survey of Western Pacific University campus at Yalibu
- Topographic and boundary survey of the Department of Higher Education Housing Scheme at Laloki
- Topographic and boundary survey of the proposed Ongawofa High School site at Markham
- Topographic survey of the Taurama PNGDF Housing Estate
- Provide UAV Photogrammetric survey of the St
- Benedicts School of Nursing, Western Pacific University campus, Laloki Department of Higher Education Housing scheme, Taurama PNGDF Housing Estate and Ongawofa proposed High School site
- Established the controls for Western Pacific University using GPS data
- Liaise with Project Managers, Architectures and Civil Engineers on survey requirements on different projects
- Acquire, process and present survey data as per client and project specifications
Mine Surveyor
OK TEDI MINING
Tabubil, Western
09.2017 - 05.2019
- Facilitate and coordinate the surveying aspects of all company projects around the country, Oversee daily survey controls for the West wall Cutback Project
- Provide UAV Photogrammetric survey of the West wall Topography for planning purposes
- Using UAV to survey stockpiles, mining faces and dumps for End of Month
- Using UAV to monitor bench and the hazardous chasm on the West wall
- Oversee the supervision and training of Trainee Graduates and Technical Staff
- Liaise with Production superintendents, supervisors and mining engineers to anticipate survey tasks in advance based on mining plans and designs
- Continuously strive to improve survey work process and knowledge
- Provide spatial data in the form of plans, contour maps, Digital terrain models, orthomosaics, dxf, csv, text files, point clouds etc
- Manage all survey tasks and resources for the West wall project site including vehicles, total stations, GPS and UAVs
- Supervise a surveyor, graduate and chainmen for the westwall cutback project
- Adhere and uphold safety and company rules and core values
- Maintain high level of health and safety awareness in all tasks executed
- Survey tasks include, Drill and Blast, Toe checks, Ramp Alignment & Grade Check, Crest Profile, Ore Waste Boundaries, Geotech Monitoring Points and Geology mapping points and End of Month stockpile, dumps and mining faces survey
- Maintain accurate survey controls for the West wall project site
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders to be productive and efficient
- Effectively contributed to the successful cutback of the West wall resulting in the stabilization of the chasm
- Coordinate and contribute effectively to daily safety and production meetings.
Senior Project Surveyor
PAROHU EPC ENGINEERS
Moresby
05.2016 - 12.2016
- Fifa U20 women’s soccer world cup Project, Maintain up-to-date documentation of all spatial data
- Conduct and oversee all surveying aspect of the project
- Coordinate and organize the set out and control survey of the construction of the stadiums and training fields for the Fifa U20 women’s world cup football tournament
- Develop formal dashboards to communicate survey data to senior management and relevant stakeholders
- Manage the survey crew on a day to day basis
- Train and coordinate a team of experienced in-house surveyors
- Supervise and coordinate a team of surveyors on the Fifa U20 women’s world cup infrastructure construction
- Setting out of the building footings, playing fields, irrigation and line drains for the stadiums and training fields
- Setting out the 8 lighting towers of PNG Football stadium and Bava Park stadium
- Monitor and supervise earth moving equipment on a day to day basis as per plans
- Oversee sub-contractor machine hours and compliance
- Supervise contractors on construction site
Mine Surveyor
OK TEDI MINING
Tabubil, Western
02.2011 - 07.2015
- Performed drill & blast set out and provided as built pickup
- Provided ore waste boundaries set out to establish machine digging limits
- Performed monthly reconciliations and volume calculations
- Established crest limits, ramp alignment, toe checks and batter boards
- Performed geodetic monitoring for monitoring purposes
- Monitored bench levels and ramp levels for grade control
- Overseen the topographic and set out survey of several road projects within the vicinity of the mine
- Performed daily face survey of all mining operations underground and open pit
- Provide alignment survey for drill and blast underground
- Performed crusher and mill equipment vertical and horizontal alignment checks
- Established drainage, building profiling, foundation survey and footings set out
- Supervise and mentor graduate trainees
- Organize, plan and supervise daily survey team activities
- Supervise and coordinate the Underground operations of the Ok Tedi Mine
- Train surveyors and graduates on Underground survey procedures
- Acting on senior surveyor positions during weekends, public holidays and breaks
- Coordinate and supervise the survey team on a day to day basis
- Establishing effective communication parameters to formally communicate survey data
- Liaising and providing feedback to management and other professionals regarding daily operations
- Performing yearly reviews on surveyors and technical staff
- Performing transformations and translations from different map grids and datum
- Providing feedback and improvement ideas to management team for cost cutting measures, safety tools and service improvement
- Maintain accurate survey controls for both open pit and underground
- Maintain a high level of awareness on health and safety on daily operations
- Ensures daily operations results in a contribution to the company’s core values and goals
Education
Surveying
PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Morobe Province, Lae 02.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Experience in Maptech Isite Studio 5/7undefined
Additional Information
- Class 6 PNG driver’s license
- Police clearance certificate
- Introduction to vulcan training certificate
- First Aid training certificate
- 7 Habits for highly effective people certificate
- OTML certificate of service
Work Availability
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Quote
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Thomas Edison
Timeline
Mine Surveyor
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
12.2020 - Current
Geospatial Specialist
LIWONGFON GEOMATICS SOLUTIONS
01.2020 - 11.2020
Project Surveyor
Parohu Epc Engineers
07.2019 - 12.2019
Mine Surveyor
OK TEDI MINING
09.2017 - 05.2019
Senior Project Surveyor
PAROHU EPC ENGINEERS
05.2016 - 12.2016
Mine Surveyor
OK TEDI MINING
02.2011 - 07.2015
Surveying
PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
02.2007 - 05.2011
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