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These profiles describe common Australian mining practice. The employer, mine, state, appointment and actual work scope always decide the final requirements.
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Driller's Offsider
Assists the driller with rig setup, rod handling, samples, housekeeping and safe shift handovers on exploration or production drilling programs.
FIFO Camp Utility Worker
Keeps remote accommodation villages operating through housekeeping, cleaning, dining-room support and other assigned service tasks.
Mining Sample Preparation Technician
Receives and prepares geological or production samples for reliable laboratory analysis while protecting traceability and contamination controls.
Mining Storeperson / Warehouse Assistant
Receives, checks, stores and issues parts and consumables for a mine, maintenance crew or remote village.
FIFO Site Administrator
Coordinates the records, travel, rosters and routine office support that keep a site team mobilised and informed.
Mining Production Support Labourer
Provides general site or processing support under supervision, with exact work and equipment authority set by the employer.
FIFO Village Bus Driver
Transports workers between airport, village and work areas within the vehicle class, passenger authority and site rules required for the route.
Mining Trade Assistant
Supports qualified trades on shutdown, construction and maintenance work fronts without crossing into licensed or trade-only work.
Fixed-Plant Electrician
Maintains and fault-finds the electrical systems that keep crushers, conveyors, pumps, mills and processing infrastructure operating.
Shutdown Electrician
Completes tightly sequenced electrical inspection, repair, installation and testing work during planned plant outages.
Electrical & Instrumentation Technician
Maintains electrical equipment and the instruments that measure and control pressure, flow, level, temperature and process conditions.
High-Voltage Electrician
Works on mine power distribution assets, with switching and access limited by licence, appointment, site procedures and demonstrated competence.
WA Statutory Electrical Supervisor
Provides appointed electrical supervision in Western Australian mining. Eligibility, competence and a job title do not replace the mine operator's written appointment.
Fixed-Plant Mechanical Fitter
Maintains the mechanical assets that crush, screen, convey, pump and process material across a mine or port operation.
Mobile Plant HD Fitter
Maintains heavy mobile mining fleets, combining mechanical, hydraulic and diagnostic work in workshops and field environments.
Mining Drill Fitter
Maintains production and exploration drill rigs where hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical and control-system reliability directly affects drilling output.
Mining Boilermaker / Fabricator
Fabricates and repairs chutes, bins, structures, platework and wear systems in workshops, fixed plant, shutdowns and projects.
Mining Rigger
Selects and uses rigging equipment to move loads within the high-risk work licence class held and the lift team's approved controls.
Mining Scaffolder
Erects, alters and dismantles temporary access structures within the relevant high-risk work licence class and design controls.
Mining Crane Operator
Operates the nominated crane class within load charts, lift controls, ground conditions and the communication structure of the lift team.
Haul Truck Operator
Operates haul trucks to move waste or ore safely between loading, dumping and stockpile locations in surface mining operations.
Mobile Plant Operator
Operates one or more production or ancillary machines while managing interactions, ground conditions, defects and mine traffic rules.
Process Plant Operator
Monitors and operates crushing, milling, separation, leaching or materials-handling circuits to keep the process stable and within operating limits.
Control-Room Operator
Monitors and coordinates a mine's processing or materials-handling system from a control room, using live data, alarms and field confirmation to keep operations within approved limits.
Underground Production Operator
Works in an underground production cycle, operating authorised trucks, loaders or support equipment while following mine-specific ground, ventilation, traffic and emergency controls.
Mining Maintenance Planner
Turns maintenance demand into executable work by defining scope, labour, parts, tools, permits, access and quality requirements before scheduling.
Mining Supervisor
Leads a defined crew or work front, translating the plan into safe, controlled execution while managing people, interfaces and changing conditions.
Mining Engineer
Plans and improves extraction by connecting mine design, scheduling, production performance, geotechnical constraints and operational risk.
Geologist
Collects, checks and interprets geological evidence to guide exploration, ore control, mine planning and resource decisions across Australian mineral operations.
Mining HSE Advisor
Supports leaders and workers to identify risk, investigate events, improve controls and meet the operation's health, safety and environmental systems.
Construction electrician
Installs and tests electrical systems on mine construction and expansion projects before they are handed over to operations.
Commissioning electrician
Tests and brings new or modified electrical plant into service under an approved commissioning and handover plan.
Controls technician
Diagnoses and maintains the instrumentation and control interfaces that let fixed plant run as designed.
Auto electrician
Diagnoses and repairs electrical, electronic and control systems on mining vehicles and mobile equipment.
Underground electrician
Maintains electrical equipment, distribution and services in a mechanised underground mine.
NPI & utilities electrician
Maintains the non-process infrastructure and utility systems that support a remote mine and village.
Electrical fitter or workshop technician
Repairs and tests electrical machines or assemblies in a controlled workshop, within the worker's electrical licence and trade scope.
Rail, signalling or communications technician
Maintains rail-side signalling, communications or train-control equipment within a defined discipline and network authority.
Electrical supervisor
Leads licensed electrical work, schedules a crew and checks that access, testing and handover meet site requirements.
Reliability or technical specialist
Uses electrical asset history, testing and fault evidence to improve reliability or resolve recurring technical problems.
Electrical or project engineer
Applies electrical engineering or project delivery skills to power, controls and infrastructure work within the stated design and approval scope.
Training and capability lead
Coordinates workforce competence, site verification and learning systems for a defined trade or operating area.
Mechanical apprentice
Learns a mechanical trade through supervised work and formal training while recording skills against the apprenticeship plan.
Shutdown mechanical fitter
Completes planned mechanical repairs and changeouts during a bounded plant outage with strict access, sequence and quality controls.
Underground mechanical fitter
Maintains underground mobile equipment or fixed services in a mine environment with controlled access and emergency arrangements.
Field service or OEM technician
Diagnoses and repairs OEM equipment across customer mine sites, often travelling with parts, tooling and technical support.
Workshop or rebuild fitter
Strips, inspects, repairs and tests components in a workshop before they return to a mining fleet or plant.
Hydraulic or pneumatic technician
Diagnoses and services fluid-power components and control circuits used in mining plant and mobile equipment.
Pump or rotating-equipment technician
Maintains pumps, drives and rotating assemblies that move water, slurry or process fluids at mine sites.
Conveyor technician or belt splicer
Inspects, repairs and joins conveyor belting and related wear systems in a fixed-plant materials-handling operation.
Lubrication technician
Executes planned lubrication and contamination-control tasks that protect mechanical assets between major services.
Condition-monitoring technician
Measures machine condition and reports evidence of developing faults so maintenance can intervene deliberately.
Tyre fitter or tyre technician
Inspects and changes tyres and wheels on heavy mobile equipment using controlled lifting, inflation and exclusion systems.
Mill reliner
Removes and replaces wear liners inside a grinding mill during a tightly sequenced plant shutdown.
Mechanical supervisor
Leads a fitter or mobile maintenance crew through safe execution, quality checks and shift handover.
Reliability specialist
Uses maintenance, condition and failure data to improve tactics and availability for a defined asset class.
Mechanical or plant engineer
Provides mechanical design, technical assurance and change support for processing plant or mobile assets.
Technical support or trainer
Provides equipment troubleshooting or structured skills transfer, depending on the position's technical and training scope.
Leading hand
Coordinates a small crew's tasks and quality on a work front while the appointed supervisor retains their defined accountability.
WA statutory supervisor
Holds a written Western Australian mine statutory supervisor appointment for the place and functions assigned by the mine operator.
Maintenance planner or scheduler
Prepares executable maintenance work or sequences ready jobs against labour, plant access and production constraints.
Superintendent or maintenance leader
Leads a maintenance area or several crews through performance, resource and risk decisions above day-to-day supervision.
Coded or specialist welder
Performs welding to the specified procedure and acceptance criteria for a defined material, joint and project scope.
Mechanical fitter or pipe fitter
Installs and maintains mechanical equipment or process pipework within the trade and project scope specified in the vacancy.
SMP supervisor
Supervises structural, mechanical and piping work fronts and coordinates the trades, lifting and quality interfaces.
SMP superintendent
Oversees multiple SMP work fronts, supervisors and contractors across a construction or major shutdown program.
Trainee operator
Learns a specified mining machine or process circuit under an employer's structured, supervised operating program.
Excavator or shovel operator
Loads production haul units from a defined dig face while managing floor, material, traffic and mine-plan constraints.
Drill operator
Runs an authorised production or exploration drill and records hole information for the site's mine plan.
Train or rail operator
Operates a heavy-haul train or rail vehicle under network safeworking, route and rolling-stock authorisations.
Port or stockyard operator
Runs product-handling systems between rail receival, stockpiles and vessel loading at a mining port.
Trainer and assessor
Delivers structured workplace learning and assesses people against a defined task, competency or training product.
Scheduler
Sequences ready work into an achievable maintenance schedule after checking resources, access and production constraints.
Shutdown planner
Builds executable maintenance work packs for a bounded outage, including scope, labour, materials and critical interfaces.
Maintenance coordinator
Coordinates the execution interface between planners, supervisors, materials and production for a defined maintenance area.
Statutory supervisor
Supervises a prescribed mine work area under an actual statutory appointment and the rules of that jurisdiction.
Superintendent
Leads several crews or supervisors and owns a broader operating or maintenance area and its performance.
Maintenance manager
Owns the maintenance strategy, people, budget and execution performance for a mine's assigned asset portfolio.
Project manager
Directs a defined mine construction, upgrade or shutdown project through scope, delivery, cost, risk and handover.
Graduate engineer or geologist
Starts in a structured engineering or geology stream, applying university learning to supervised mine-site projects and field decisions.
Mechanical, electrical or project engineer
Applies a nominated engineering discipline to mine plant or projects; design authority depends on qualification, registration and assigned scope.
Reliability engineer
Uses asset, failure and condition data to improve maintenance strategies and manage equipment risk.
Mine surveyor
Measures and controls mine spatial information so production, design, volumes and as-built records use reliable coordinates.
Environmental advisor
Helps a mining operation monitor environmental performance and turn approval conditions into practical site controls.
Supply, warehouse or storeperson
Keeps critical parts and consumables available through receiving, storage, inventory accuracy and issue to site crews.
Procurement or contracts specialist
Sources goods or services and manages commercial obligations for a mine, project or maintenance portfolio.
HR advisor or recruiter
Supports workforce planning, hiring or employee matters for rostered and remote mining teams within a clearly defined HR scope.
Camp, logistics or site-services worker
Supports a remote workforce through accommodation, catering, transport, freight or administration, depending on the actual vacancy.
Autonomous haulage systems controller
Coordinates autonomous haulage fleet activity and site interfaces from a designated control position.
Remote operations centre operator
Monitors and coordinates a defined part of an integrated mine, plant, rail or port system from a central operations centre.
Remote drill or equipment operator
Operates an authorised drill or other equipment through a remote interface while coordinating with on-site teams and area controls.
Control systems or PLC engineer
Designs or modifies industrial control logic and interfaces for a defined plant system with managed testing and change approval.
Mining automation or robotics engineer
Develops and assures automated mining equipment or coordination systems while working with operations, OEMs and site safety controls.
Data and systems reliability analyst
Uses operations and systems data to identify recurring faults, bad data and availability constraints in connected mining systems.
Onshore LNG process technician
Operates or monitors a defined part of a gas-processing and liquefaction facility under its process-safety system.
Offshore mechanical or E&I technician
Maintains mechanical equipment or electrical and instrumentation systems offshore within the technician's own trade and facility authorisation.
Offshore E&I supervisor
Coordinates offshore electrical and instrumentation maintenance within the facility's permit, isolation and process-safety arrangements.
Wellhead or field technician
Inspects and maintains assigned production wellhead or field equipment within a petroleum facility's pressure and permit controls.