Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the production activities of a mining operation including physical and human resources.
Occupation description
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the production activities of a mining operation including physical and human resources.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Mine Manager
- Mine Superintendent
Production Manager (Mining) is a VETASSESS Group B occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor or higher.
Applicants can fulfil the assessment criteria for this occupation in four different ways.
* Additional qualifications in a highly relevant field of study include those comparable to the following levels:
- AQF Diploma
- AQF Advanced Diploma
- AQF Associate Degree or
- AQF Graduate Diploma
*** Bachelor degree or higher degree includes:
- AQF Master Degree or
- AQF Doctoral Degree
** Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
1–3
minimum years of employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
4 minimum 6 years of relevant employment required – Five years of relevant employment (can be outside the last 5-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
Highly relevant major fields of study include:
Mining Engineering is the study of planning, developing, assessing, directing and managing the extraction of minerals, oil and gas from the earth.
Accetable Fields of Study may include (but are not limited to):
• Mining Engineering
• Science - Mineral Exploration and Mining Geology
• Applied Project Management - Mining
• Mining Geology
Subjects in this field include:
• Prospecting and Site Analysis
• Theory and technology of mining processes
• Open Pit and Shaft Mines
• Mine Equipment and Facilities
• Mineral Extraction
• Mineral Processing and Refining
• Mine Safety
• Mine Regulation
• Mine Development
• Mine Operational Evaluation
• Mine Design and Construction
• Economic Feasibility of Mining Mineral Deposit
• Gas and Oil Extraction Methods
• Metallurgy
• Geology
• Geophysics
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Impact and Management
• Earth Science
• Logistics and communications systems
Employment
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Determining, implementing and monitoring production strategies, policies and plans
- Planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements
- Controlling the operation of production plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of parts and tools
- Monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimise costs
- Informing other Managers about production matters
- Overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment
- Directing research into production methods, and recommending and implementing initiatives
- Controlling the preparation of production records and reports
- Coordinating the implementation of occupational health and safety requirements
- Directing staff activities and monitoring their performance
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