Your profession: Mine surveyor (m/f)

Professional activities

Mine surveyors undertake specific duties under the Federal Mining Act. For example, they document specific geoinformation for the mining sector, and analyse and assess this geoinformation. Mine surveyors secure buildings for example, they are involved in the redevelopment of brownfield sites and work in the area of geomodelling and geoinformatics.

Fields of work

Mine surveyors work in the field of mining and also outside mining. They work, for example, in the following areas:

in mining companies
in service companies both within and outside mining
in corporate consultancies
in community organisations and in industrial research organizations
in engineering offices
in utility companies and in waste-disposal and redevelopment businesses
in public administration.
in research institutes and institutes of higher education

Regulation

This profession is in Germany.

The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).