Every Australian Mine Site Job Explained
From Entry-Level General Hands to Shift Supervisors >> What each Role Requires and What Tickets you Need to Enter Mine Sites In Australia
Runs a department — mining, maintenance, technical services or HSE.
Leads a crew of 8–20 operators/trades per shift. Owns safety and production.
Electrical fault-finding and installs on heavy mobile equipment.
Fabricates and repairs steel structures, chutes, hoppers, and process plant.
Grade control, resource modelling and orebody characterisation.
Maintains, repairs and replaces plant and equipment during scheduled mine site shutdowns.
Operates mobile and crawler cranes for shutdowns, construction and general lifts.
Maintains and repairs heavy mobile equipment — trucks, dozers, loaders.
Rigs loads for lifting, erects structural steel, installs conveyors and process plant.
Builds new mine infrastructure, process plant modules, camp buildings and civil earthworks.
Directs a crane operator and slings loads. Prerequisite for rigging.
Drives 200–400 tonne trucks moving ore and waste from pit to crusher.
Similar to haul truck but often smaller class trucks in gold/quarry operations.
Manages spares, consumables and dispatch in the mine site warehouse.
Does whatever the crew needs — cleaning, spotting, sample prep, labouring.
Cleans camp accommodation, wet mess and administration buildings.