Where a mining assistant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a mining assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
Also known as mining laborer, mining labourer, quarry labourer, mine worker assistant, mine support worker.
Elementary occupations 26 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: mining equipment mechanic, 70%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A mining assistant needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- handle mining plant waste handling and moving
- clean waste materials from machines handling and moving
- conduct inter-shift communication communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain records of mining operations information skills
- excavation techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
- dispose of non-hazardous waste handling and moving
- perform minor repairs to equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- address problems critically communication, collaboration and creativity
- work ergonomically assisting and caring
- troubleshoot communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a mining assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- surface miner 48% covered · difficulty 50.2
- underground heavy equipment operator 46% covered · difficulty 51.2
- surface mine plant operator 46% covered · difficulty 51.4
- underground miner 44% covered · difficulty 53.8
- mining equipment mechanic 35% covered · difficulty 59.6
- mineral processing operator 34% covered · difficulty 60.9
- dewatering technician 26% covered · difficulty 67.5
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Mining assistant is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a mining assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.