Skills Undercutter Operator - Underground Mining near Saanich (BC)

Expertise

People working in this occupation usually apply the following skill set.

• Set up and operate drills and drilling machines to produce a designated pattern of blasting holes
• Operate diamond drills or other specialized drills such as raise boring machinery to test geological formations or to produce underground passageways
• Set up and operate mining machinery to shear coal, rock or ore from the working face
• Load explosives, set fuses, and detonate explosives to produce desired blasting patterns and rock fragmentation in underground mines
• Operate scooptram, load-haul-dump (LHD) machine or mucking machine to load and haul ore from stopes, drifts and drawpoints to ore passes
• Perform duties required to ensure safety and to support the mining advance
• Perform routine maintenance of mining equipment

Skills and knowledge

The following skills and knowledge are usually required in this occupation.

Service and Care

Taking care of the needs of people and animals.

• Protecting and Enforcing
  • Responding to public safety and security needs and ensuring compliance to rules, standards or laws.

Operating and Repairing Equipment, Machinery and Vehicles

Working with and/or repairing vehicles, machinery or stationary equipment.

• Mechanical Installing, Maintaining and Repairing
  • Installing equipment or machines and/or using tools and devices to maintain and repair them.
• Operating Stationary Industrial Equipment
  • Operating and monitoring various types of mechanically-controlled or computer-controlled industrial machinery, equipment or systems.
• Operating Mobile Equipment
  • Controlling the operation of machinery, equipment or vehicles.

Building

Working with materials to construct, renovate and maintain structures.

• Constructing
  • Shaping, forming and joining building materials into a structure, or product according to specifications and plans.

Analysis

Examining and evaluating information.

• Inspecting and Testing
  • Examining and investigating problems, sites or objects to ensure compliance with safety standards, laws or regulations.
• Analyzing Information
  • Examining data or facts to determine appropriate actions or recommendations.

Information Handling

Creating and using systems for the storage and retrieval of knowledge and data.

• Processing Information
  • Inputting, recording, transcribing and updating data using electronic or manual information systems.

Handling Goods and Materials

Working with goods and materials manually or with machines.

• Loading and Unloading
  • Moving goods or materials, by hand or with the aid of equipment.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge related to the design, building, use or repair of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures.

• Mechanics and Machinery
  • Knowledge of machines, equipment and tools including their design, uses, repair and maintenance.

Law and Public Safety

Knowledge related to the provision and enforcement of laws and regulations that safeguard the effective functioning of a democratic society.

• Public Safety and Security
  • Knowledge of public safety and security operations and systems, of policy, regulations and procedures for the protection of people, data and property.

Manufacturing and Production

Knowledge related to the delivery of a series of operations in large-scale production or processing of goods or crops, according to safety and quality standards.

• Processing and Production
  • Knowledge of production methods, inputs, outputs, work flow and industrial processes including safety, quality control and cost estimation.

Mathematics and Science

Knowledge related to specialized areas of research such as measurement, living organisms, physical substances, and properties and relationships of quantity, space, and matter.

• Earth Sciences (Geosciences)
  • Knowledge of the integration of chemistry, physics, biology, chronology and mathematics to study the earth and its atmosphere.