career path
MINING job types
mining
Shutdown
This position normaly involves shutdown maintenance work in Coal, Iron Ore, metalliferous Mining, and Heavy Industrial Sectors.
Driller
Driller is the person who is in responsible of the well drilling process on a rig. Driller supervises the crew and the running of the rig itself and is responsible for monitoring things like pressure build-ups and gas levels.
Driller offsider
Position involves helping to move, set-up and operate drilling rigs and secondary equipment to drill holes for mineral exploration and oil/gas exploration and production.
nipper
Nipper’s primary roles are to work with the Underground Drillers and partake in ad hoc tasks such as delivery, pick up and transport of mining equipment and personnel within the underground mine.
Jumbo operator
Jumbo Operators are in charge of the operation of a single and /or double boom jumbodrilling rig for underground development mining with the installation of ground support.
Field assistant
Typical field assistant’s job roles involve operating 4WD vehicles to reach remote places, using a GPS navigational system to locate sites of interest, collecting soil samples, performing gridding, cleaning, preparing and rehabilitating mine sites, maintaining camps and vehicles.
Trades Assistant
A trades assistant in the mining sector is generally an entry level job, where the individual assists the tradesman and is expected to be a jack-of-all-trades.
Skilled or non-skilled labouring
Unskilled labouring generally refer to work that doesn’t require a certain set of skills or formal education. The main difference between unskilled and skilled labouring is the fact that skilled labours require specialised training whereas unskilled labours do not.
Maintenance
The mining industry requires a varied range of maintenance workers, such as electrical, mechanical, fixed and mobile plant maintenance, metal machining and welding.
Operator
Operators’s main roles typically invoive in carrying out activities from exploration to mine construction, operation and closure, trading of mining rights and many others.
Site Supervisor / Foreman
Site supervisors is responsible to coordinate and supervise the activities related to mining and quarrying in underground and surface mines and quarries. They oversee the workers, schedules, processes and organisation in the mines and quarries.
Shot Firers
Shotfirers prepare, position and detonate explosives to demolish buildings and structures or dislodge rocks and soil. The work is predominantly outdoors and underground.
Underground
Underground mining is used to extract ore from below the surface of the earth safely, economically and with as little waste as possible.
Open Cut
Open-cut mining is used when the minerals are found over a large area and relatively close to the surface. The open cut mine is dug downwards in benches or steps which slope towards the centre of the pit.
Dump Truck
Dump Truck Operators are responsible for transporting materials such as dirt, rocks, sand, gravel, garbage and other materials from one site to another.
Mobile Plants
Mobile plant operators drive backhoes, bulldozers, excavators, front-end loaders, graders, scrapers, skid-steer loaders, rollers and forklift trucks to level, excavate, move and load earth, rock and other material.
Fixed Plant
Fixed plant operators are responsible in operating, carrying out routine inspections and maintaining the condition of the fixed plants.
Crane Operators
Crane operators are in charge of controlling mobile or stationary cranes to lift, move and place objects at locations such as building and construction sites, wharves and shipyards.
Geologists
Exploration
Exploration geologists are responsible for finding minable occurrences of metallic ores, gems, pigments, industrial minerals, construction materials, or other minable commodities.
Mining (Surface & Underground)
Mining Geologists study the composition and structure of the earth to locate minerals and materials and advise on their extraction, and the environmental protection and rehabilitation of land after mining.
Resource
Resource Geologists are equipped with traditional technical skills such as structural geology, mapping (and the drawing of cross-sections, fence diagrams, stratigraphic columns and contours), mineralogy, and occasionally other disciplines such as palaeontology.
Metallurgists Surveyors
Supervisory/ Management
Mine Manager
Mine Managers are responsible for overseeing the overall performance of a miningcompany. Key duties include monitoring and evaluation of production targets, adherence to health and safety issues of an organization as well review of new and on-going projects.
Production Manager
Production managers ensure that manufacturing processes run reliably and efficiently. Responsibilities of the job include: planning and organising production schedules. assessing project and resource requirements.
Maintenance Manager
Maintenance Managers are the leaders of a company’s maintenance department. They supervise the company’s maintenance operations and processes. They’re also responsible for assisting with budget creation and tracking their expenses for the leadership team to review.
Process Manager
Process Managers oversee the process improvement implementation process by working with managers, team members and other employees to ensure that the plan is clear and can be applied quickly and efficiently. Process Managers might often be involved in training staff in these changes.
Operations Manager
Operations managers are responsible for managing activities that are part of the production of goods and services. Their direct responsibilitiesinclude managing both the operations process, embracing design, planning, control, performance improvement, and operations strategy.
Planner
Mine Planners are responsible for determining the best way for a mining company to extract a resource from out of the ground.
Scheduler
Mine Schedulers are responsible for the efficient scheduling of all underground mining activities on a daily basis.
Project Manager
Project managers are responsible for planning, organising, and directing the completion of specific projects for an organization while ensuring these projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.
OH&S Manager
OH&S Managers are responsibile for providing and ensuring a safe workplace for staff, students, contractors and visitors.
oil & gas job types
Technical Professional
Geologists
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes the Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them.
Geophysicist
A geophysicist is someone who studies the Earth using gravity, magnetic, electrical, and seismic methods.
Subsurface Management
Subsurface managers are responsible for providing guidance and analysis in relation to all subsurface matters that occur within any of the company’s assets.
Topside General/Technical
Topside refers to the above-water portions of an offshore oil rig, or any parts which are above the water line. Components of the topside include the drilling rig, worker accommodations, and sometimes an on-board processing facility.
Pipeline Engineering
Pipeline engineers plan and design oil and gas pipelines to transport fuels to different communities across the country.
Construction, Fabrication & Installation
Construction or Installation Managers oversee and advise staff on all matters concerning the day-to-day running of job site operations.
Chemical Engineer
Chemical engineers design and oversee plants and factories that process raw materials into useful products.
Civil Engineer
Civil engineers conceive, design, build, supervise, operate, construct and maintain infrastructure projects and systems in the public and private sector, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and systems for water supply and sewage treatment.
Design Engineer
Design Engineers are experts in engineering and design, using a blend of skills to create designs that are both visually pleasing and functionally sound.
Drilling Engineer
Drilling engineers design and implement procedures to drill wells as safely and economically as possible.
Engineering Geologist
Engineering geologists are responsible for identifying the geological factors that could affect construction projects.
Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical engineers design power-producing machines, such as electric generators, internal combustion engines, and steam and gas turbines, as well as power-using machines, such as refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.
Mining Engineer
Mining Engineers oversees the construction of mines and specifies the processes, labour usage, and equipment that will be required to extract minerals and ores from the earth.
Electrical Engineer
Electrical engineers design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical equipment, such as electric motors, radar and navigation systems, communications systems, or power generation equipment.
Process Engineer
Process Engineers are responsible for designing, implementing and optimizing chemical and biochemical processes, especially continuous ones within the chemical, petrochemical, agriculture, mineral processing, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological industries.
Petroleum Engineer
Petroleum engineers design and develop methods for extracting oil and gas from deposits below the Earth’s surface. Petroleum engineers also find new ways to extract oil and gas from older wells.
Trades
Rigger/Dogger
Riggers are qualified to operate rigging gear used to transport, reposition or install heavy loads like construction equipment and structural steel and concrete slabs.
Electrician
An electrician is a tradesman specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, transmission lines, stationary machines, and related equipment.
Pipefitter
A pipefitter or steamfitter is a tradesperson who installs, assembles, fabricates, maintains and repairs mechanical piping systems.
Roller Driver
Roller Drivers are responsible to operate roller to compact earth, subgrade, and sub-base asphalt surfaces in the construction of highways and streets.
Water Cart
Water cart drivers load, haul and distribute water. Carry out machine operator maintenance. Conduct housekeeping activities.
Excavators
Excavator Operators are responsible for operating heavy machinery (including backhoes, bulldozers, rollers and graders) in order to dig, transfer and load soil, rock, debris and rubble from one place to another.
Dump Truck
Dump Truck Operators are responsible for transporting materials such as dirt, rocks, sand, gravel, garbage and other materials from one site to another.
Mobile Plant
Mobile plant operators drive backhoes, bulldozers, excavators, front-end loaders, graders, scrapers, skid-steer loaders, rollers and forklift trucks to level, excavate, move and load earth, rock and other material.
Fixed Plant
Fixed plant operators are responsible in operating, carrying out routine inspections and maintaining the condition of the fixed plants.
Crane Operators
Crane operators are in charge of controlling mobile or stationary cranes to lift, move and place objects at locations such as building and construction sites, wharves and shipyards.
Health, Safety & Environment
Quality Engineers/Managers
Quality engineers oversee manufacturing and engineering processes by ensuring the proper use of tools, materials and procedures.
Inspectors
Inspector’s roles involve removing any substance or item relevant to an investigation from a mine for examination or testing, or for use as evidence.