surface minertounderground miner
A surface miner already meets 78% of what the underground miner role asks for. The move turns on 2 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 19.4 of 100 · adjacent
1 Share of the underground miner role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the surface miner profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A underground miner role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a surface miner background worth leading with.
- already held operate mining tools handling and moving
- already held operate hydraulic pumps working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held impact of geological factors on mining operations engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held react to events in time-critical environments communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform minor repairs to equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- already held geology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
All 11 carried skills, including the 7 the underground miner role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 3 missing skills fall into 3 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held health and safety hazards underground required
- required, not held operate a range of underground mining equipment required
- optional, not held operate drilling equipment optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 2 entries a underground miner role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 operate a range of underground mining equipment skill · sector specific
- 02 health and safety hazards underground knowledge · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 11 skills that carry over
- already held address problems critically skill
- already held impact of geological factors on mining operations knowledge
- already held operate hydraulic pumps skill
- already held operate mining tools skill
- already held perform minor repairs to equipment skill
- already held troubleshoot skill
- already held work ergonomically skill
- already held electricity knowledge
- already held geology knowledge
- already held mechanics knowledge
- already held react to events in time-critical environments skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held operate drilling equipment optional
3 held skills the underground miner role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role drive vehicles skill
- not needed by the target role excavation techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role operate front loader skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held health and safety hazards underground required
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.