Mining Job Flow Chart
Mining Job Flow Chart (not including oil and gas)
There is a lot of confusion out there about the different types of mining jobs and the careers you can have with them. We have put together a flow chart of how the industry is separated into streams and the types of jobs involved in each stream. Once you enter the industry in a stream it is very hard to move into another stream for a number of different reasons. However, the main reason most people get trapped in a Utility role is because of the poaching rules that companies have to deal with as part of their contracts on site.
How can I start this career?
The easiest way to start a mining career is to follow our 2 simple rules
- Go where the employers have no choice but to hire new starters
- Give them what they want, someone that knows how the mine works
Going where the employers have no choice to hire new starters, includes areas in the north of QLD, in the middle of NSW and of course here in WA, around Kalgoorlie and FIFO from Perth. These are the hot spots, but there are mines looking for new starters in Gold and Copper mines all around Australia. You only have to look at our Mining Jobs to Apply for page or type “Underground” into seek, to see all the jobs.
That leaves the second rule, giving the employers want they want. This is where people delude themselves into thinking that something other than knowing how the employers mine works, is going to help the employer and help them get a job. No amount of equipment experience helps the employer, if you need a babysitter for the first 3 months, because you can’t get your head around how the mine works. The longer you need a babysitter the more the pressure gets ramped up and the more people fail.
I can’t make this any clearer to new starters, that teaching someone to drive the underground truck is the easy part. It only takes a couple of weeks, they are point and shoot, hydraulic steering, automatics. They are the most expensive trucks you will have ever driven ($3million to $4.5million each), but the easiest. The problem is teaching that person enough about how the mine works, so they can be left alone to drive the truck on their own. This is the hard part and the reason more than 50% of green new starters fail in the first 6 months. Even the ones with lots of equipment experience fail at this rate because if you can’t be left alone to do the job safely then you just don’t have a job.
It’s as simple as that, pure sink or swim training, with lots of people sinking. When if they had done the training and learnt how it all worked before they went, then they would have had a completely different result. Knowing how the employers mine works puts you 6 to 8 weeks ahead of everyone else applying for jobs and how the training helps people get jobs. You can checkout our Wall of Fame page to see just how many people have used the training to get jobs.
As always it pays to know how the system works to take advantage of it.
If you are planning a mining career, then it pays to invest in the mining knowledge you will need to survive in one of these jobs as a Nipper, Truck Operator, Agi Operator or Diamond Driller Offsider.
There is 50 hours of important information in the DIY Introduction to Underground Mining package has full instructions on how to redo your resume (it takes about 2 hours to do yourself using our template) and interview prep questions as well as a mining company to apply to directly. If you want your resume done for you checkout our 3 Step Plan package.
If you want help getting in, they also do a Workready package, where you get a ticketed WA shift boss to help you with the mining information, we redo your resume for you, do interview prep and come up with a plan of where and how to get in. Doing one of our packages will not only make it much easier to get a start but it will ensure you have all the information and tools you need to make a career once onsite. If you don’t want to become a statistic, then education is key.
I hope that info helps.
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