underground heavy equipment operator
ISCO: 8111. Skills: 29. Essential: 14.
Essential skills
- address problems critically
- communicate mine equipment information
- conduct inter-shift communication
- deal with pressure from unexpected circumstances
- electricity
- health and safety hazards underground
- impact of geological factors on mining operations
- inspect heavy underground mining machinery
- make independent operating decisions
- mechanics
- operate mining tools
- perform minor repairs to equipment
- react to events in time-critical environments
- troubleshoot
Supporting skills
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- operate a range of underground mining equipment
- operate continuous miner
- operate drilling equipment
- operate drilling jumbo
- operate hydraulic pumps
- operate LHD
- operate longwall mining equipment
- operate powered roof support
- operate production drilling machine
- operate roof bolter
- operate scaler
- operate shotcreter
- operate shuttle car
- operate tunnelling machine