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Job Description
Husk is seeking a Site Surveyor to join the growing team in Nigeria. The overall objective of this role is to coordinate field staff in mapping out land boundaries, identification of mini-grid sites to create optimal pipelines of sites/villages suitable for the implementation of mini-grid uses, and ensuring that the generated sites meet the minimum site selection criteria.
Responsibilities
General
- Support all GIS/site scoping-related activities across Nigeria (and other potential markets).
- Regularly interact with various internal and external stakeholders for site identification/selection activities.
- Support the optimization of various Husk NG activities to ensure best practices are entrenched towards more efficient processes.
- Understand the priorities of the country operations and support the Country team when necessary.
- Provide requisite support and inputs on building and aligning various company processes and policies according to global best practices.
- Other duties may be assigned from time to time.
Site Identification and Deployment
- Support in defining the site selection criteria for HMG locations with inputs from the relevant team members.
- Support work planning and the implementation of all site identification tasks.
- Support the preparation of country-level geospatial analysis and GIS modeling strategy and implement this to develop pipelines of viable communities/locations.
- Support the relevant team in site survey and land acquisition.
- Support relevant teams in deploying mobile data collection apps for use during field surveys and enumeration activities.
- Support the management of survey data collection and the application of relevant data sets for site scoping activities.
Business Growth and Support
- Ensure support for other Business Units for alignment with site selection/land survey tasks.
- Work with relevant Business Units to ensure relevant land lease documents, building permits, and other land documentation for compliance purposes.
- Support business growth and continuous cost & quality improvements in the business.
- Support in the preparation of proposals, technical inputs, bill of materials, budgets, and technical drawings for the submission of such proposals.
- Coordinate, maintain regular communication, and develop positive and productive relationships with various stakeholders, regulatory stakeholders, customer/client groups, etc.
- Support communication channels for engagements with all relevant stakeholders during site selection/land survey and other related processes
Qualifications
Required Skills & Attributes
- A minimum of 2 years of work experience and 1 year of experience in a similar role within the energy/infrastructure/development sector.
- Graduate from a leading institution with a related degree in GIS/Surveying and other related subjects. Postgraduate degree and/or related professional qualifications are a plus.
- This position requires an in-depth understanding of GIS/Survey capabilities, critical thinking, and the ability to provide time-bound solutions to the benefit of the company.
- Excellent skills with QGIS or ArcGIS, Google Earth, Microsoft Office tools, and project management tools (MS Project, Power BI, etc)
- Ability to develop and update professional knowledge and skills quickly and efficiently. Ability to apply professional knowledge and skills in the advancement of business objectives.
- Effectively carry out tasks that are required by internal terms in addition to carrying out your role.
- Adapts to changes in company strategy whilst developing own strategy to achieve personal goals of competently owning and managing processes.
- Assesses own development needs and develops self to improve job performance and fulfill future potential. Contributes to the team ethos and instills the values of the Company.
- The ability to evaluate and convey complex information to others in an effective manner through concise communication skills and clear presentation skills in both verbal and written contexts.
- Should possess requisite skill sets- active listening, speaking, reading, comprehension, critical thinking, performance monitoring, time management, people management, material resource management, effective time management, judgment and decision making, teaching, coaching, and social awareness.
Location: Lafia, Nigeria.
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