Mining assistant

Code 9311.1

Mining assistants perform routine duties in mining and quarrying operations. They assist the miners with maintaining equipment, with laying pipes, cables and tunnels, and with removing wast.

Essential skills

Knowledge

excavation techniques

Skills and competences

dispose of non-hazardous waste
handle mining plant waste
maintain records of mining operations
perform minor repairs to equipment
troubleshoot
work ergonomically
conduct inter-shift communication

Transversal competences

address problems critically
clean waste materials from machines

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences