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About Willie Faber:

Highly focused self-starter and strategic thinker, passionate about tackling environmental issues, with an excellent academic profile, and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the environment, who succeeds in creating clarity out of complexity to drive positive outcomes and results.

Experience

EXM Environmental Services (Pty) Ltd

GIS Analyst and Environmental Scientist | June 2019 - December 2020

  • Responsibilities ranged from conducting fieldwork to creating maps and assisting various multimillion-rand projects in the environmental sector.
  • Projects where major mapping responsibilities were assigned to me included: Anglo American’s Kolomela and Sishen Mines (Biodiversity land management and Lylyveld and Heuningkranz Mine extensions), Ilahle Coal’s projects in Ladysmith, Vryheid and Pongola (mining rights and prospecting rights), Zinoju Coal’s Balgray colliery, Sitatunga Resources East Manganese Mine, Umzumbe Mining project outside Umzumbe, SAMANCOR Chrome Mines in Burgersfort, Barberton Mines (Fairview Mine, Sheba Mine and New Consort Mine), Kangra Coal Kusipongo project, Aquila resources - Gravenhage Manganese project and various other development projects in mining and construction sectors which included GIS support such as fauna, groundwater, aquatic, ecology, social, geology and mine closure & rehab studies.
  • Assisted with fieldwork and site inspection and was part of the rehabilitation and closure process for Kangwane anthracite mine near Komatipoort.
  • Assisted with monthly water monitoring and data reporting at Blair Atoll golf course. Also prepared e-WULAAS for water licensing.

North–West University Honours | 2021

  • Participated in the Rapid Ecosystem Function Assessment Field Campaign fieldwork with NWU which included soil sampling, plant species identification and entomological sampling.

Dedomena Surveying Services | 2018

Surveying vacation job

  • Carried out duties under the supervision of an expert mine surveyor for each project to gain on-the-job instrument and surveying training.
  • Gained experience working in other sub-Saharan countries that includes Botswana.

Education

BSc. Honours Ecological Interactions and Ecosystem Resilience

(Cum Laude) | 2021

North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)

 

BSc. Environmental & Biological Sciences in curriculum Geology and Botany | 2019

Majors: Geology and Botany

North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)

 

Botanical Latin course | 2016

North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)

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