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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials S8.4.1 - operating mining, drilling and mineral processing machinery Operate a range of underground mining equipment
Description
Operate underground mining equipment, such as ventilation and transport systems.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Underground minerUnderground miners perform a wide range of ancillary underground mining operations such as inspections, conveyor attendance and the transport of equipment and consumable materials …
Optional for
- Underground heavy equipment operatorUnderground heavy equipment operators control heavy-duty mining equipment such as cutting and loading equipment to excavate and load ore and raw mineral at underground mines. Dutie…
- Mining assistantMining assistants perform routine duties in mining and quarrying operations. They assist the miners with maintaining equipment, with laying pipes, cables and tunnels, and with remo…
Related skills
- Health and safety hazards underground
- Address problems critically
- Operate hydraulic pumps
- Perform minor repairs to equipment
- Troubleshoot
- Mechanics
- Impact of geological factors on mining operations
- Operate mining tools
- Operate drilling equipment
- Communicate mine equipment information
- Work ergonomically
- Geology
