Miner (Blasting Certificate, Underground Stoping)

This underground coal colliery near Polokwane needs a miner who makes every workplace safe before a single hole is drilled. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

The work is in Polokwane, Limpopo, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Hold a start-of-shift safety talk and deal with any unsafe condition
• Bar down loose rock and install support to the section's support standard
• Record face advance, tons broken and support installed on the shift report
• Report misfires straight away and handle them strictly by the procedure
• Mark off drilling holes to the standard pattern and check the drilling

• Certificate of fitness from the mine medical station, including heat tolerance screening where required
• Able to lead a crew of 8 to 20 people in a language they understand
• No serious safety transgressions in your record
• Sound knowledge of your commodity's mining method and support standards
• At least 3 years underground, with at least 1 as a certificated miner

• Rock engineering or ventilation short courses
• Experience in trackless mechanised sections

• Production bonus based on metres or square metres achieved
• Housing or living-out allowance
• Pension fund with employer contributions

• Be honest about any section 54 stoppages you were involved in and what you changed after.
• List each mine, commodity and mining method on your CV, like "conventional stoping, platinum, 4 years".