Senior Scientist/Manager
SRK Consulting
Total years of experience :21 years, 7 Months
•Managing budgets and project costs;
•Keeping up-to-date with new technology;
•Making sure that projects keep to pre-determined timescales and deadlines;
•Provide leadership and focus on the economic development aspect of project management;
•Lead GIS implementation and maintenance activities including resource planning, departmental needs assessment, systems analysis;
•Create and update Quality control procedures and ensure adherence to ISO standards and procedures;
•Coordinate and supervise GIS activities and personnel;
•Manage data development and/or projects including providing technical expertise, obtaining milestones, and meeting deadlines;
•Provide technical expertise and assistance to meet the needs and requests of other agencies and the general public;
•Coordinate and supervise project activities and personnel (Phase I, Phase II, spatial analysis, data modeling, and quality assurance procedures);
•Project management on ongoing groundwater monitoring programs -Groundwater and Soil contamination;
•Contaminated site remediation plans;
•RBCA contamination monitoring modelling;
•Goldsim Surface water balance;
•Report Writing, Proposal Writing and Project Review.
•Generate and maintain geodatabases layers and associated attribute information;
•Spatial Analysis, 3D analysis, GIS modelling and Feasibility Studies;
•Design and implement toolbox models and calculation;
•Work as a high level technical expert in design, development, implementation, and testing of complex GIS applications or significant enhancements to existing GIS applications.
•Act as highest-level technical expert, addressing issues of standards, strategy, technical requirements, and long-term administration and maintenance;
•Implement, operate, populate, analyze and maintain GIS applications and databases. Work includes the translation of various software datasets, manipulation of intricate data and execution of complex queries, as well as, maintenance and updates of GIS databases, application of standard spatial analysis functionality, training and documentation activities;
•Provide applications development and programming services, spatial database administration and development, computing systems administration and analytical support;
•Design and develop efficient program logic for the enhancement of existing systems, including appropriate system documentation; preparing test cases and carrying out unit integrations to ensure that modified systems perform correctly;
•Analyze systems documentation, program logic and manuals, including on-site review of user procedures to achieve a thorough understanding of the various systems functions;
•Coordinate projects with peers, supervisors and management to ensure that project and departmental objectives are met.
•Provide geographic information services utilizing GIS systems to various departments;
•Analyze, define, model, implement, and maintain databases;
•Lead and/or participate as team member in large projects;
•Lead and/or participate in geospatial data conversion projects;
•Collect and update geospatial data documentations, including metadata.
•Soil and groundwater Sampling;
•Contaminated site assessments;
•Drilling supervision;
•Groundwater Modeling - Collating information for numerical models and making conceptual model.
Perform mapping and data analysis tasks including producing graphic and tabular data;
Create and keep GIS coverages, digitize geographic data and input non-geographic data;
Collect, create, edit, operate, maintain, analyze, distribute, and plot simple GIS/GPS data.
Reason for Leaving
Promoted to next level
BSc Honours degree
Bachelor of Science
Matric Exemption