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Mining assistant

Latest available data: March 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

Elementary occupations

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

Mining and construction labourers

Mining and quarrying labourers

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Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Mining and quarrying labourers

5

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

2,31%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-58,33% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

80,00%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

,00%

Part-time contracts

1,00% Turnover index

1

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-30%

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.

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

79%

21%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport

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

Mining and construction labourers

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?

Mining and quarrying labourers

Professional, scientific and techinical activities
60%
Manufacturing
20%
Administrative and support service activities
20%
0%
0%
0%

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.