Miner - Wessels Mine at South32

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:

• Taking charge of the underground blasting operations within the designated area;
• Ensure the delivery of quality product to the plant;
• Achieve the daily production targets;
• Be familiar with the Production process activities, trends and brief operators accordingly at the start of each shift;
• Collect explosives and accessories, lock up and transport to the face;
• Transport explosives and accessories by means of a Self-Propelled mobile machine;
• Handle explosives in the mining environment;
• Lock up extra or unused explosives and accessories;
• Monitor and control Blasting accessories stock levels;
• Organize and control general road maintenance activities.

ABOUT YOU:

You will have experience and demonstrate capability in the following:

• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a hard rock mining environment;
• Underground bord and pillar mining (mechanized Mining) experience.

Qualifications for this role are:

• Grade 12 with mathematics for external candidates and Grade 10 for internal candidates;
• Underground blasting certificate for Metalliferous Mines.