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Underground heavy equipment operator
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Underground 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.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Positioning, operating and monitoring the performance of a variety of underground and surface mining equipment including continuous mining, cutting and channelling plant;
(b) Setting up and operating drilling equipment in underground and surface mines and quarries;
(c) Operating machinery and using hand or power tools to remove loosened rock, ore, coal and other deposits;
(d) Preparing, fitting and installing supports in underground workings including rock bolts;
(e) Operating machinery to open new shafts, drives, air vents and rises;
(f) Operating auxiliary plant such as pumps to expel air, water and mud;
(g) Performing minor maintenance and repairs and lubricating and cleaning plant, machines and tools;
(h) Completing records detailing operations completed during shifts;
(i) Collecting mineral samples for laboratory analysis.
Knowledge
- Electricity and energy
- Mechanics and metal trades
- Mining and extraction
- Occupational health and safety
Digital competencies
- Operating mining, drilling and mineral processing machinery
- Developing solutions
- Operating earthmoving equipment
- Communicating with colleagues and clients
- 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
- Maintaining a positive attitude
- Taking a proactive approach
- Processing information, ideas and concepts
Professional groups of the occupation
Plant and machine operators, and assemblers
Stationary plant and machine operators
Mining and mineral processing plant operators
Miners and quarriers
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Miners and quarriers
1
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
,91%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
-66,67% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
100,00%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
,00%
Part-time contracts
1,00% Turnover index
8
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
14%
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.
Stationary plant and machine operators
68%
32%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Stationary plant and machine operators
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 mineral processing plant operators
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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?
Miners and quarriers
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.
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