Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced candidates for appointment to the above position that has arisen in the Agriculture Function, reporting to the Agriculture Optimisation Manager.
Key Performance Areas:
- Acquire and present GIS data in a suitable format to enable precision agriculture in areas such as Variable rate technologies, Drone imagery processing and analytics, Controlled traffic and auto-steer technology Ag-tech spatial data management.
- Collaborate with and support Group GIS Lead to codify GIS best practice into standardised work processes.
- Collaborate with and support Crop Production and Optimisation activities.
- Facilitate data processing and interactions with the selected centralized data processing entity.
- Manage data and user access on the Illovo cloud based spatial data repository.
- Prepare spatial data for projects.
- Assist in improving the visualisation of survey data for routine reporting.
- Support the Optimisation department in representing cost and productivity reporting in spatial formats.
- Support the spatial data requirements of grower agriculture and other estate functions.
- Support site L&D team to develop GIS skills and application competence.
- Spatial tracking of day-to-day operations, where applicable.
- Promote and adhere to Ubombo s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).
Job Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Geographic Information Systems/Land Surveying/Agricultural Engineering.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in GIS.
- Demonstrated competence in GIS, land surveying, sugarcane agriculture, drone pilot, agricultural machine control, computer programming, database management software, systems integration and agriculture data analytics.
- Strong analytical skills
