Surveyor-General

About

Leads the Surveyor-General office in Mpumalanga, including cadastral approvals, records, spatial information and provincial-office management. Requires a Grade 12 certificate, a four-year Geomatics/Land Surveying degree, specified professional registrations, SMS entry certificate and senior managerial experience. Reference: 3/1/1/1/2026/333 Salary: R1 554 696 per annum (Level 14) (All-inclusive package). Duty station: Surveyor-General: Mpumalanga (Mbombela).

How to apply

Submit a completed Z83 form and detailed Curriculum Vitae (PDF document to a maximum of 10 megabytes) by hand delivery during office hours to 17 Van Rensburg Street, 7th Floor Bateleur Building, Mbombela, 1200 or by email to Post333@dlrrd.gov.za.

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 (diagrams and general plans).
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents (sectional plans) prepared in accordance with the Sectional Titles Act and all applicable statutory consents.
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents prepared in accordance with the Mining Titles Registration Act or any other law requiring the approval of the Surveyor-General.
• Archive, preserve and maintain the currency of all records pertaining to approved land parcels and land rights created in terms of the Land Survey Act and Sectional Titles Act and Regulations.
• Ensure that all approved cadastral documents are registered and housed within a secure documents vault.
• Ensure an electronic repository of scanned images to facilitate information provisioning.
• Update, endorse, re-scan and re-archive the hard copy (original approved) documents because of any lawful approval, withdrawal, cancellation or change to cadastral information.
• Accept and file survey records associated with cadastral surveys.
• Maintain correspondence files relating to cadastral surveys for research purposes.
• Ensure the compilation of a complete, accurate, current and correct cadastral spatial information dataset.
• Update the cadastral geo-spatial database through the addition of every approved cadastral land parcel.
• Ensure that management information systems are created to provide timely and accurate management information constantly.
• Comply with the custodianship responsibility of cadastral spatial information as directed by the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure Act and the Committee on Spatial Information established thereunder.
• Train Professional Land Surveyors, Geomatics Technologists, Survey Technicians and Geomatics Officers.

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 South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and a 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.