Surveyor-General

About

Leads the Mpumalanga Surveyor-General office, including cadastral approval, records, spatial information and office management. Requires professional land-survey registration, sectional-titles practitioner registration and senior managerial land-surveying experience. Job grade: Level 14 Salary: R1 554 696 per annum (all-inclusive package) Reference: 3/1/1/1/2026/333 Duty station: Surveyor-General: Mpumalanga (Mbombela)

How to apply

Submit by hand during office hours to 17 Van Rensburg Street, 7th Floor Bateleur Building, Mbombela, 1200, or email Post333@dlrrd.gov.za. Use the new Z83 form, include full particulars/CV, and indicate reference number 3/1/1/1/2026/333.

Responsibilities

• Manage the approval of diagrams, general plans and sectional title plans that comply with legislation and prove tenure security and sustainable rural and urban development.
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents, including diagrams, general plans, sectional plans and documents under the Mining Titles Registration Act.
• Archive, preserve and maintain records pertaining to approved land parcels and land rights.
• Ensure approved cadastral documents are registered, securely housed and electronically scanned.
• Update, endorse, re-scan and re-archive original approved documents following lawful cadastral changes.
• Accept and file survey records and maintain correspondence files relating to cadastral surveys.
• Ensure compilation and updating of a complete, accurate cadastral spatial-information dataset.
• Train Professional Land Surveyors, Geomatics Technologists, Survey Technicians and Geomatics Officers.
• Provide support, technical advice, information and research services to land and tenure reform, restitution and land-administration programmes.
• Undertake field surveys and inspections, resolve boundary disputes and issue reports and certificates.
• Ensure effective financial, human-resource and supply-chain management.
• Ensure effective budgeting and management of the Provincial Office.
• Manage recruitment, selection, employment-equity targets, performance and labour-relations matters.
• Draft and implement management action plans on audit findings and manage supply-chain processes.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 Certificate and Four-year B or BSc Degree in Geomatics / Land Surveying (NQF Level 7) or related equivalent qualifications as recognised by SAQA.
• Nyukela certificate (Pre-entry Certificate to the SMS) submitted prior to appointment.
• Registered as a Professional Land Surveyor with the South African Geomatics Council (SAGC).
• Registered as a Sectional Titles Practitioner in terms of Section 5 (2) of the Sectional Titles Act, 1986.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience at a senior managerial level in a Land Surveying environment.
• Appropriate post-registration experience in cadastral surveying.
• A valid driver’s licence.
• Knowledge of budget systems, computer accounting software, financial accounting systems, GAAP, cadastral surveys, technical systems, cadastral spatial information, land information and administration systems, geographical information management, technology, performance management, PFMA and governmen
• Skills in project and team management, interpersonal relations, budget forecasting, computer literacy, resource planning, problem solving, decision-making, time management, business and communication.