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Mining assistant

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Mining assistant

Mining assistants perform routine duties in mining and quarrying operations. They assist the miners with maintaining equipment, with laying pipes, cables and tunnels, and with removing wast.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations;
(b) Assembling and dismantling mining equipment;
(c) Removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries;
(d) Removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings;
(e) Removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills;
(f) Cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks;
(g) Sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers.

Knowledge

  • Earth sciences
  • Mechanics and metal trades
  • Mining and extraction
  • Building and civil engineering
  • Occupational health and safety

Digital competencies

  • Maintaining operational records
  • Disposing of non-hazardous waste or debris
  • Operating mining, drilling and mineral processing machinery
  • Developing solutions
  • Repairing and installing mechanical equipment

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Communicating
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Science and engineering professionals

Electrotechnology engineers

Electrical engineers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Electrical engineers

6

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

2,87%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-50,00% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

83,33%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

,00%

Part-time contracts

1,00% Turnover index

0

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-72%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Science and engineering professionals

58%

42%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Electrotechnology engineers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Electrical engineers

Manufacturing
30%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
27%
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
18%
Construction
6%
Information and communication
5%
Others
14%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.