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As an Engineering Geologist within the SLR Geotechnical Engineering Discipline, I currently have the following experience:- Management and monitoring of tailings storage facilities to ensure regulatory compliance. This involves conducting monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, performing stage capacity analysis, and conducting various tailings studies.- Infrastructure Geotechnical Site Investigations across Africa, comprising roads and pipelines (in Sudan).- Geotechnical investigations for waste management facilities, assessing ground conditions to inform design and construction processes.- Geotechnical desk study assessments for various renewable energy facilities, focusing on the risk of undermining and providing insights to mitigate potential challenges.- Soil profiling, core logging, and site supervision, ensuring accurate data collection and analysis to support informed decision-making.- Geo-spatial analysis using QGIS, involving, amongst others, tailings dam breach analysis, slope categorization and mapping.

Mentored students to enhance practical understanding of theoretical courses

Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create reports for senior researchers.Planned and executed research techniques, procedures and tests.Planned and supervised annual undergraduate field camp.Establishing UKZN’s first mobile broadband seismic station.

Effectively managed operations and sales whilst constructively supervised staffPerformed daily account reconciliation to maintain daily records