Unskilled Mining Jobs WA

Some Basic Information on Mining Jobs WA for 2010.

There are many unskilled mining jobs that require no mining job experience previously.

Drilling offsider

Drilling offsiders is one of the most important unskilled mining jobs. A drilling offsider is a mining job that does not require previous experience. Assisting the driller of the drill rig with the drilling on the exploration or grade control holes. The duties of a drilling offsider also include maintaining machinery and vehicles around the drilling site, as well as keeping the site in a orderly fashion.  Drilling offsiders assist with “daily prestart checks.”   All facets of this job require a good level of physical fitness and a mechanical mind. 1 - 2 years become a driller yourself and have your own offsider's working under you.

Sample Preparer

Sample prepares have the responsibility of working in labs which examine minerals and soil.   Employees receive hands on training.  Individuals with good mathematical and computer skills are successful starting out in the mining industry as a sample preparer.  Unskilled mining jobs like this a beneficial means of gaining experience to become a field assistant.   

Survey Assistant

A survey assistant position, another unskilled mining job, involves helping the surveyor on a mine site to determine the elevation of future mining areas.  This also requires surveying or assessing the positioning of hills, bodies of water, and wooded areas.  Assistants have the task of clearing particular areas to ensure the accuracy of surveys.  An assistant also has the duty of assembling and dismantling necessary equipment when surveying is complete. 

Geologist Assistant

One of the many customers now working in the Mines. Geologist Assistant in a mine near Kalgoorlie.

When working as a geologist assistant, employees take minerals and soil samples.  Assistants collect data from samples and input information into computer systems and assist with the writing of reports.  Such activities are in preparation for future mining.  Once mining in various areas is complete, a geologists assistant might also work to restore the area to its previous state. 

Mining Cleaning jobs

Unskilled mining jobs include cleaning, maintaining the cleanliness and hygiene of areas within the mining camp.  Employees, on the site of a mine, take fly in and fly out positions and accommodation is provided.  This requires an additional number of employees to maintain areas in and around the mining camp.  Cleaning jobs vary.  Various positions are fly in fly out while others require employees to find accommodations prior to being hired for a position. 

Mining Kitchen jobs

Kitchen jobs normally involve working in food preparation areas, in the mining camps large mess hall or cafeteria style dining hall.  Employees in this particular position must have a good understanding of cleanliness and hygiene necessary, in a large dining area.  Some employers require individuals attempting to gain a kitchen job to have a food handler’s certificate.

Mining Jobs for Women

More and more women are now working in the mining industry. Gone are the old days when it was known as a male only industry. Women are getting jobs in the nearly all areas and some areas they even excell than the males. In 2009, there were even some mining companies specifically wanting to hire women as they recognised them as better workers. More information in my guide regarding the different type of jobs that most women take up.

General Requirements that Mining Companies/Contractors ask for to work in Western Australia Mines

- Senior First Aid Certificate - Recommended

- Marcsta Induction - Some of the large companies are not requiring this, as they provide their own full induction.

- HR licence becoming more important.

-Sometimes forklift Licence is handy

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