Griffiths was an associate of the Royal School of Mines; an associate member of the (British) Institution of Civil Engineers; a member of the (British) Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and of the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers; and a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. In May 1893 he became a member of the South African Association of Engineers and Architects and in October that year read a paper on "Treatment of pyritous ores" which was published in the association's Proceedings for 1892-1894 (Vol. 1, pp. 65-74). When the Geological Society of South Africa was founded in 1895 he was elected a member of its first council, serving for that year only. That same year he married Florence M. Clements. He was a foundation member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902 and was still a member in 1906. He also joined the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa in 1903.

From 1897 Griffiths spent two years as a mine manager in New Zealand. There he converted dry-washing into wet-crushing plants, served in that country's Chamber of Mines, and was chosen as chief engineer of the Auckland Exhibition. During the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) he worked in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), returning to Johannesburg as a consulting mining and mechanical engineer when the war ended. His publications include a map of the Coronation Reef and some papers: Report on the properties of the Rhodesian Banket Co., Ltd. (1905); "Paardeberg Mines and district" (South African Mining Review, 1907); and two papers on tin mining in the Cape Colony, in the Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa (1907) and the Mining Journal (London, 1908).

After leaving South Africa Griffiths became manager of the Troush Mines in the Federated Malay States and wrote an article on "Bucket-dredging for tin in the Federated Malay States" (Mining Magazine, 1917). He then settled in Burma as consulting engineer to its tungsten mines.